I. Material

100 grams of red beans (azuki beans), 250 grams of glutinous rice flour, 15 grams of rock sugar.

Second, practice

1, red beans washed and soaked overnight.

2, soaked red beans together with the soaking water into the rice cooker, and then add the right amount of water.

3, glutinous rice flour heating water to live into the snowflake.

4, knead into small rounds with hands.

5, the pot of water boiled and continue to cook for about half an hour, add the kneaded dumplings and rock sugar.

6, continue to cook for about ten minutes, until the small rounds can float.

Yuanxiao is one of the traditional Chinese snacks, belonging to the Lantern Festival holiday food customs. Lantern practice is based on the filling, first mix the filling, and evenly spread into large round thin slices, drying and then cut into cubic pieces smaller than a ping pong ball. Then put the filling into a large sieve like machine, pouring on the rice flour, "sieve" up, with the filling in the impact of each other in the rice to the surface of the filling into a ball, it became the Lantern. Northern "roll" Lantern, southern "package" dumplings, which are two practices and taste are different food.

The folk custom of eating Lantern Festival Lantern. Lanterns in the south called "Tangyuan", "round", "floating round", "water round", made of glutinous rice (in some areas is made of sweet potato). Some areas are made of sweet potato), or solid, or with filling. They can be filled with bean paste, sugar, hawthorn, and so on, and can be boiled, fried, steamed, or deep-fried.

At first, people called this food "floating rounds", and later called "soup dumplings" or "soup dumplings", which all sound like the word "reunion". Reunion" sound similar to the word, take the meaning of reunion, symbolizing the family reunion, harmony and happiness, people also use this nostalgia for parted loved ones, to send a good hope for the future of life. Eating the Lantern Festival symbolizes the reunion of the family like the full moon, sending people's good wishes for the future life.