In fact, this kind of food is not special, just that we rarely taste it in normal times, but it is indispensable for every household when it comes to the Spring Festival, especially the first day of the New Year's Day!
It is tangyuan.
I love eating glutinous rice balls and watching them float in the water. I remember one time, my mother made me glutinous rice balls. I saw that my mother first poured glutinous rice noodles into a basin, blended them with boiling water, and kneaded them into a dough. Then every time, she grabbed a small ball of noodles from the dough, rounded it into a corn-and-corn shape in her hand, then put sugar in the middle, and then rounded them into a shape the size of a ping-pong ball. After the water in the pot boiled, she put them all down. Mom put the lid on, and there was only an anxious and long wait. Greedy, I often secretly opened the lid and watched, only to see the white balls placed at the bottom of the water. In a short time, a few floated up first, then a few, and gradually, they floated and fell, which was really cute.
Unconsciously, my mother touched my nose with her hand covered with flour. It turned out that looking at the dumplings in the pot, I was already "salivating". So, my mother found a bowl of chopsticks and picked up a few floating dumplings from the pot. The dumplings were steaming, but I couldn't care less. I quickly opened one with chopsticks and put it in my mouth. It was very hot, but the soft, fragrant and sweet feeling was really great. I couldn't help giving my mother a thumbs-up sign.
My mother told me that dumplings can also be filled with many kinds of fillings. Some of them wrap vegetables in the dumplings, saying that they can prevent getting angry. Some of them like to eat sweet food, so they put some brown sugar powder in the dumplings. As for everyone who likes to eat glutinous rice balls in the New Year, my mother said that glutinous rice balls symbolize happiness and reunion, and its name represents people's good wishes for life!