The annual Lantern Festival is coming. Lantern Festival is an important festival in China. Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival and Yuanxi Festival, is also known as Xiaoyuanyi and Lantern Festival, which is the first important traditional festival in China lunar calendar. When the Lantern Festival comes, there are folk performances, such as watching the moon and lanterns, dancing dragons and lions, and walking on stilts. And festive food is essential. Let's take a look at the traditional food besides the must-eat Yuanxiao at this time.

1, glutinous rice balls and Yuanxiao

On the Lantern Festival, southerners eat glutinous rice balls and northerners eat Yuanxiao, all for the good meaning of family reunion. The main raw material for making glutinous rice dumplings and Yuanxiao is glutinous rice, which is flat in nature and sweet in taste. It can tonify deficiency, regulate blood, invigorate spleen and stimulate appetite, invigorate qi and stop diarrhea, and has the functions of warming middle warmer, promoting fluid production and moistening dryness. Tangyuan has sweet, salty, meaty and vegetarian fillings, and Yuanxiao is mostly sweet fillings, usually fruits and dried fruits.

2, Yuanxiao tea

In Shaanxi and other places, there is a custom of eating Yuanxiao tea, that is, putting all kinds of vegetables and fruits in hot soup noodles, much like the ancient "Yuanxiao porridge". This kind of tea increases the intake of cellulose, minerals and vitamins, and is not as greasy as ordinary Yuanxiao. It can neutralize the acidic constitution caused by eating more animal food in festivals and make the nutrition of Lantern Festival more comprehensive.

From 0 10 to 10 10, the fifteenth day of the first month has arrived. The north has the habit of eating jiaozi. Henan people have the custom and tradition of "15 levels and 16 yuan", and they want to eat jiaozi on the fifteenth day of the first month. Jiaozi is a folk food with a long history, which is deeply loved by ordinary people. There is a folk saying that it is as delicious as jiaozi.

3. jiaozi

People in the western part of Henan province like to eat jujube cakes on the Lantern Festival, which means good luck and good luck. Jujube cake was originally a royal cake in the Qing Dynasty. The taste is long and sweet. Contains vitamin C, protein, calcium, iron, vitamins and other nutrients, which can not only tonify the spleen and stomach, but also invigorate qi and promote fluid production. It also has the effects of protecting liver, increasing muscle strength, caring skin and preventing aging.

4, jujube cake

People in Kunming like to eat bean noodles. The practice is similar to the Lantern Festival. After the beans are fried, grind them, roll them into balls and cook them with water. It tastes good.

5. Bean dough

Taizhou area eats rotten soup after watching lanterns on the fourteenth day of the first month every year. Stir-fry the mash soup with shredded pork, shredded winter bamboo shoots, mushrooms, black fungus, fresh duck, dried bean curd, oil bubble, Sichuan bean board and spinach. Add a little rice flour to make salty paste food. The rotten soup drunk on the fifteenth day of the first month is sweet, made of sweet potato powder or lotus root powder with lotus seeds, red dates and longan.

6. Bad soup

There is a folk proverb in Jiangbei area, "On the Lantern Festival, under the noodles, you can look forward to next year after eating." Local people eat noodles on the fifteenth night of the first month, which sounds unrelated to the Lantern Festival, but it also means praying for good luck. 755-79000: "On the 18th day of the first month, the lights are dim, and people should greet their faces. As the saying goes,' when the light shines, the ball falls', and everyone will celebrate their feast. " Eating noodles at sunset symbolizes happiness.