The Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, also known as the "Festival of Lights" or the Lantern Festival, is the first important festival after the Spring Festival. In ancient books, this day is called "Shangyuan", and its night is called "Yuanyuan", "Yuansi" or "Yuanshao".
In ancient Chinese custom, the Upper Yuan Festival (Lantern Festival), the Middle Yuan Festival (Bon Festival), and the Lower Yuan Festival (Shui Kuan Festival) are collectively known as the Sanyuan. The Lantern Festival began more than 2,000 years ago during the Qin Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, the 15th day of the first month was designated as the Lantern Festival.
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Traditional customs include going out to enjoy the moon, burning lanterns and setting off fireworks, delighting in guessing lantern riddles, *** eating Lantern Festival, pulling rabbit lanterns, etc. Lanterns
The first month of the fifteenth eat Lanterns, "Lanterns" as food, in our country has a long history. Song Dynasty, the folk that is popular a Lantern Festival to eat the novelty of food. This kind of food, the earliest called "floating yuanzi" later called "Lantern", businessmen also beautifully called "Yuanbao". Lantern that is "dumplings" to sugar, rose, sesame, bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnuts, nuts, jujube paste, etc. for the filling, wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a round shape, can be meat or vegetarian, with a variety of flavors. It can be boiled in soup, deep-fried or steamed, and has the meaning of reunion and happiness. Haunted flowers
Haunted lanterns is the Lantern Festival traditional holiday customs, began in the Western Han Dynasty, flourished in the Sui and Tang dynasties. After the Sui and Tang dynasties, the wind of lights prevailed, and inherited in later generations. And the first month of the fifteenth, and is the annual lantern fireworks ***. So the Lantern Festival is also known as the "Festival of Lights". Guessing riddles
Playing riddles is a characteristic activity of the Lantern Festival. Every first month of the lunar calendar on the 15th, the traditional folk to hang up colored lanterns, fireworks, and then there are good people to write riddles on paper, pasted on the colorful lanterns for people to guess. Because the riddles can enlighten wisdom and cater to the festive atmosphere, so the response of many people, and then riddles gradually become an indispensable program of the Lantern Festival. Stealing Vegetables
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The so-called "steal green", that is, to steal people's vegetable garden inside the green. According to records, the Lantern Festival, "regardless of men and women, young and old, do not wait for deeper, after the meal that is, everywhere raging, potential with the plunder, the gardeners a little negligent defense, that is, was swept away."
In addition to stealing vegetables, people also steal lamps - send lamps or steal lamps to wish for a child, "Years and Years Guangji" quoted in the "Materia Medica", said the Song Dynasty people think that the lamps on the fifteenth day of the first month of the first child, if the couple *** with the same to go to other people's homes to steal the lamps, placed under the bed, the month can be pregnant. In ancient times, the night of the Lantern Festival, in front of every house are burning some pinched with bean flour or carved with water carrots into the lamp, there are women three years after marriage infertility, the Lantern Festival on the street to steal lamps to eat, generally steal the surname of Liu and Dai surnamed, "Liu" sound "stay", "Dai" sound "with", take its harmony, meaning "keep the child", "with the child", although it is a superstitious Saying, but also festive
2. Lantern Festival Trivia
Since the Lantern Festival Lantern custom formation, all dynasties have been to the first month of the fifteenth Lantern Lantern Lantern as a major event.
Emperor Jianwen of Liang once wrote a Leading Lights Fugue: "The southern oil is full, and the western lacquer is burning. Su Zheng rest in peace, wax out of Longchuan.
The slanting sunlight is reflected, and the reflection is clear and fresh."
This is the first time I have ever seen a movie in the world, and it is the first time I have ever seen a movie in the world.
Emperor Yang of Sui held a grand party on the 15th day of the first month of every year to entertain the guests and envoys from all countries. According to the "Sui Book - Music" records: the Lantern Festival is very grand, everywhere lights and colors, day and night singing, dancing and playing music, performers up to more than 30,000 people, playing music up to more than 18,000 people, the stage is eight miles long, playing the people watching the lights is countless, all night long, enjoy the fun, lively very much.
In the Tang Dynasty, it developed into an unprecedented lantern market, and after the Tang Dynasty, it has developed into a national carnival. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (685 - 762 AD), the beginning of the heyday, Chang'an lamp market is very large, burning lamps 50,000, lanterns, lanterns, the emperor ordered to do a giant lamp building, as wide as 20 rooms, 150 feet high, bright gold, extremely spectacular.
Tang Dynasty is the implementation of the curfew, the night ban on the drums on the sound of the ban on travel, criminal night to be punished; only in the first yuan festival, the emperor licensed three days of the ban, known as the "release of the night". Along to the Song Dynasty, the lights by three nights extended to five nights, lights outside the fireworks, performing a variety of juggling, the scene is more lively.
"Tokyo Dreaming Records" recorded: every Lantern Festival, Kaifeng Imperial Street, ten thousand colored lanterns base lamps mountain, lanterns fireworks, gold and blue shot, embroidery and glitter. The girls of Kyoto sing and dance, and all the people watch.
"The tourists set the Imperial Street under the two corridors, strange skills, singing and dancing, scales cut, music and noise for more than ten miles." The streets and alleys, tea houses and restaurants lights and candles, drums and gongs, firecrackers, hundreds of miles of lights incessantly To the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang in Jinling after the throne, in order to make the capital prosperous and lively, and the provisions of the first eight of the first month of the lights, seventeen down lights, even Zhang ten nights, every house is hanging colorful lights, lanterns depicting a variety of characters, dancing, birds flying flowers. The dragon and fish leap, lanterns and fireworks shine all night long. Drums and music. Noisy Dan, which is China's longest festival of lights, the Qing Dynasty, Manchu dominated the Central Plains, the court no longer run the lanterns, folk lanterns are still spectacular.
The date was shortened to five days, and continues to this day. Guess the lantern riddle "guess the lantern riddle", also known as "playing the lantern riddle", is a Lantern Festival after the increase in an activity, the lantern riddle is the earliest from the development of riddles, originated in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period.
It is a kind of literary game with ridicule, admonition, warning, wit, and jokes. The riddles were hung in lamps for people to guess and shoot, which began in the Southern Song Dynasty.
The Old Story of Wulin - Lanterns, recorded: "Silk lamps cut and write poems, sometimes with ridicule, and paintings of characters, hidden hidden words, and gags in the old capital, teasing pedestrians." Lantern Festival, the Imperial City is not night, the spring Lantern Festival will be, the people mixed, riddles book in the lamp, reflected in the candle, listed in the thoroughfare, anyone guess, so called "riddles".
Nowadays, every Lantern Festival, all places are playing lantern riddles, hoping that this year can be joyful, safe and sound. Because riddles can inspire wisdom and are interesting, they are popular among all social classes in the process of circulation.
In the Tang and Song dynasties, various kinds of juggling skills began to appear in the lantern market. Ming and Qing dynasties, in addition to riddles and a hundred opera songs and dances on the market, but also added the content of the opera show.
Throughout the years, people in addition to touring the lantern market, there are welcome Zigu sacrifices toilet God, cross the bridge to touch the nails to walk away from the hundred diseases and other customs, there are drums, rice-planting songs, stilt walkers, dragon dances, lion dances and other games. The traditional society of the Lantern Festival is the urban and rural importance of the folk festival, the Lantern Festival in the city is particularly enthusiastic, which reflects the unique spirit of carnival of the Chinese people.
The traditional Lantern Festival has been dissolved by daily life, people gradually lost **** the same spiritual interest, the complexity of the festival has been simplified to "eat Lantern" food customs. The festival has been simplified to a food custom of "eating Lantern".
Its origin can be traced back to ancient times. Legend has it that as early as during the time of the Yellow Emperor, in a large-scale song and dance called "Qingjiao", the image of a bird with a dragon's head and body played by a human being appeared, and then choreographed a dance scene in which six auger dragons were interspersed with each other.
The dragon dance in written records, is the Han Dynasty Zhang Heng's "Xijing Fu", the author of the hundred plays in the narrative of the dragon dance made a vivid depiction. According to the "Sui Book - Music Zhi" records, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, similar to the hundred plays in the dragon dance performance of the "yellow dragon change" is also very wonderful, dragon dance popular in many parts of China.
The Chinese people revere the dragon as a symbol of good luck. Stilt-walking Stilt-walking is a popular folkloric performance of mass skill.
Stilts are a kind of ancient Chinese opera, which appeared as early as the Spring and Autumn Period. The earliest introduction of stilts in China was in the article of "Lie Zi - Say Fu": "There is a Lanzi in Song, who uses his skills to dry Song Yuan.
Song Yuan called and made to see its skills. Lion Dance Lion dance is an excellent Chinese folk art, every Lantern Festival or *** celebrations, folk lion dance to cheer.
This custom originated in the Three Kingdoms period, began to popularize the North and South Dynasties, so far there has been more than a thousand years of history. "Lion Dance" began in the Wei and Jin dynasties, flourished in the Tang Dynasty, also known as the "Lion Dance", "Taiping music", generally completed by three people, two people dressed as a lion, a person as a lion's head, a person as a lion and the back feet, another person as a guide lion body and The lion dance is usually done by three people, two people dressed as lions, one as the head of the lion, one as the body of the lion and the back feet, the other as the lion guide, and the dance method is divided into civil and military, the civil dance to show the lion's tameness, there are shaking the hair, rolling, etc., the lion lion lion lion lion martial arts to show the ferocity of the lion, there are prancing, stomping high, rolling colorful ball and other actions.
Rowing Dry Boat Rowing dry boat, folklore is to commemorate the great Yu's success in water control. Rowing a dry boat, also known as running a dry boat, is to imitate the boat on the land, most of the performance of running a dry boat is a girl.
The dry boat is not a real boat, more than two pieces of thin board, sawed into a boat shape, bamboo and wood tie into, and then masked with colorful cloth, set of tie in the girl's waist, as sitting in the boat, as in the hands of the same paddle, to do the rowing position, one side running, one side singing some local ditties, singing and dancing, which is the rowing dry boat. Sometimes there is another man dressed up as a boat passenger, partnering with the show, is mostly dressed up as a clown, with a variety of comical actions to amuse the audience.
Rowing dry boat is popular in many parts of China. Eating Lantern Festival "Lantern Festival" as a food has a long history in China.
Song Dynasty, the folk that is popular in the Lantern Festival to eat a novelty food. This food, the earliest called "floating Yuanzi" later called "Lantern", the businessman also beautifully called "Yuanbao".
In ancient times, "Lantern" is more expensive, there is a poem that says: "Your guests hook curtains to see the Royal Street, the city treasures a moment to. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a pair of shoes or boots, and then you'll be able to get your hands on a pair of shoes or boots.
New Year's Eve to eat Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival that is "dumplings" to white.
3. Lantern Festival Trivia
Since the formation of the Lantern Festival, the custom of the Lantern Festival, throughout the dynasties to the first month of the fifteenth Lantern Festival as a major event.
Emperor Jianwen of Liang once wrote a Leading Lights Fugue: "The southern oil is full, and the western lacquer is burning. Su Zheng rest in peace, wax out of Longchuan.
The slanting sunlight is reflected, and the reflection is clear and fresh."
This is the first time I have ever seen a movie in the world, and it is the first time I have ever seen a movie in the world.
Emperor Yang of Sui held a grand party on the 15th day of the first month of every year to entertain the guests and envoys from all countries. According to the "Sui Book - Music" records: the Lantern Festival is very grand, everywhere lights and colors, day and night singing, dancing and playing music, performers up to more than 30,000 people, playing music up to more than 18,000 people, the stage is eight miles long, playing the people watching the lights is countless, all night long, enjoy the fun, lively very much.
In the Tang Dynasty, it developed into an unprecedented lantern market, and after the Tang Dynasty, it has developed into a national carnival. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (685 - 762 AD), the beginning of the heyday, Chang'an lamp market is very large, burning lamps 50,000, lanterns, lanterns, the emperor ordered to do a giant lamp building, as wide as 20 rooms, 150 feet high, bright gold, extremely spectacular.
Tang Dynasty is the implementation of the curfew, the night ban on the drums on the sound of the ban on travel, criminal night to be punished; only in the first yuan festival, the emperor licensed three days of the ban, known as the "release of the night". Along to the Song Dynasty, the lights by three nights extended to five nights, lights outside the fireworks, performing a variety of juggling, the scene is more lively.
"Tokyo Dreaming Records" recorded: every Lantern Festival, Kaifeng Imperial Street, ten thousand colored lanterns base lamps mountain, lanterns fireworks, gold and blue shot, embroidery and glitter. The girls of Kyoto sing and dance, and all the people watch.
"The tourists set the Imperial Street under the two corridors, strange skills, singing and dancing, scales cut, music and noise for more than ten miles." The streets and alleys, tea houses and restaurants lights and candles, drums and gongs, firecrackers, hundreds of miles of lights incessantly To the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang in Jinling after the throne, in order to make the capital prosperous and lively, and the provisions of the first eight of the first month of the lights, seventeen down lights, even Zhang ten nights, every house is hanging colorful lights, lanterns depicting a variety of characters, dancing, birds flying flowers. The dragon and fish leap, lanterns and fireworks shine all night long. Drums and music. Noisy Dan, which is China's longest festival of lights, the Qing Dynasty, Manchu dominated the Central Plains, the court no longer run the lanterns, folk lanterns are still spectacular.
The date was shortened to five days, and continues to this day. Guess the lantern riddle "guess the lantern riddle" is also called "playing the lantern riddle", is a Lantern Festival after the increase in an activity, the lantern riddle is the earliest from the development of riddles, originated in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period.
It is a kind of literary game with ridicule, admonition, warning, wit, and jokes. The riddles were hung in lamps for people to guess and shoot, which began in the Southern Song Dynasty.
The Old Story of Wulin - Lanterns, recorded: "Silk lamps cut and write poems, sometimes with ridicule, and paintings of characters, hidden hidden words, and gags in the old capital, teasing pedestrians." Lantern Festival, the Imperial City is not night, the spring Lantern Festival will be, the people mixed, riddles book in the lamp, reflected in the candle, listed in the thoroughfare, anyone guess, so called "riddles".
Nowadays, every Lantern Festival, all places are playing lantern riddles, hoping that this year can be joyful, safe and sound. Because riddles can inspire wisdom and are interesting, they are popular among all social classes in the process of circulation.
In the Tang and Song dynasties, various kinds of juggling skills began to appear in the lantern market. Ming and Qing dynasties, in addition to riddles and a hundred opera songs and dances on the market, but also added the content of the opera show.
Throughout the years, people in addition to touring the lantern market, there are welcome Zigu sacrifices toilet God, cross the bridge to touch the nails to walk away from the hundred diseases and other customs, there are drums, rice-planting songs, stilt walkers, dragon dances, lion dances and other games. The traditional society of the Lantern Festival is a big folk festival in urban and rural areas, the Lantern Festival in the city is particularly enthusiastic, which reflects the unique spirit of carnival of the Chinese people.
The traditional Lantern Festival has been dissolved by daily life, people gradually lost **** the same spiritual interest, the complexity of the festival has been simplified to "eat Lantern" food customs. The festival has been simplified to a food custom of "eating Lantern".
Its origin can be traced back to ancient times. Legend has it that as early as during the time of the Yellow Emperor, in a large-scale song and dance called "Qingjiao", the image of a bird with a dragon's head and body played by a human being appeared, and then choreographed a dance scene in which six auger dragons were interspersed with each other.
The dragon dance in the written record, is the Han Dynasty Zhang Heng's "Xijing Fu", the author of the hundreds of plays in the narrative of the dragon dance made a vivid depiction. According to the "Sui Book - Music Zhi" records, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, similar to the hundred plays in the dragon dance performance of the "yellow dragon change" is also very wonderful, dragon dance popular in many parts of China.
The Chinese people revere the dragon as a symbol of good luck. Stilt Walking Stilt walking is a popular folk art performance.
Stilts are a kind of ancient Chinese opera, which appeared as early as the Spring and Autumn Period. The earliest introduction of stilts in China was in the article of "Lie Zi - Say Fu": "There is a Lanzi in Song, who uses his skills to dry Song Yuan.
Song Yuan called and made to see its skills. Lion Dance Lion dance is an excellent Chinese folk art, every Lantern Festival or *** celebrations, folk lion dance to cheer.
This custom originated in the Three Kingdoms period, began to popularize the North and South Dynasties, so far there has been more than a thousand years of history. "Lion Dance" began in the Wei and Jin dynasties, flourished in the Tang Dynasty, also known as the "Lion Dance", "Taiping music", generally completed by three people, two people dressed as a lion, a person as a lion's head, a person as a lion and the back feet, another person as a guide lion body and The lion dance is usually done by three people, two people dressed as lions, one as the head of the lion, one as the body of the lion and the back feet, the other as the lion guide, and the dance method is divided into civil and military, the cultural dance to show the lion's tameness, there are shaking the hair, rolling, etc., the lion lion lion lion lion martial arts to show the ferocity of the lion, there are prancing, stomping high, rolling colorful ball and other actions.
Rowing Dry Boat Rowing dry boat, folklore is to commemorate the great Yu's success in water control. Rowing a dry boat, also known as running a dry boat, is to imitate the boat on the land, most of the performance of running a dry boat is a girl.
The dry boat is not a real boat, more than two pieces of thin board, sawed into a boat shape, bamboo and wood tie into, and then masked with colorful cloth, set of tie in the girl's waist, as sitting in the boat, as in the hands of the same paddle, to do the rowing position, one side running, one side singing some local ditties, singing and dancing, which is the rowing dry boat. Sometimes there is another man dressed up as a boat passenger, partnering with the show, is mostly dressed up as a clown, with a variety of comical actions to amuse the audience.
Rowing dry boat is popular in many parts of China. Eating Lantern Festival "Lantern Festival" as a food has a long history in China.
Song Dynasty, the folk that is popular in the Lantern Festival to eat a novelty food. This food, the earliest called "floating Yuanzi" later called "Lantern", the businessman also beautifully called "Yuanbao".
In ancient times, "Lantern" is more expensive, there is a poem that says: "Your guests hook curtains to see the Royal Street, the city treasures a moment to. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a pair of shoes or boots, and then you'll be able to get your hands on a pair of shoes or boots.
New Year's Eve to eat Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival that is "dumplings" to white.
4. What are the tips for cooking dumplings
1, gently pinch, in the dumplings before the pot, the application of clean hands slightly pinched dumplings, so that its skin slightly cracked, so that the pot is cooked through the dumplings inside and outside are cooked, will not pinch, and soft and smooth and tasty.
2, under the boiling water, when the water boils, put the dumplings slowly into the pot, at the same time should be followed by a spoon to gently push it away from the same direction, slightly stirring, so that it rotates a few times, do not stick to the pot. 3, slow cooking, high-fire cooking for a few moments, after the dumplings to float, quickly switch to a small fire and slow cooking, otherwise it will make the dumplings in the pot constantly rolling, cooked dumplings outside the cooked in the raw is not tasty.
4, point of cold water, in the process of cooking dumplings, each boiling pot should also point into the appropriate amount of cold water, so that the dumplings in the pot to maintain a seemingly rolling non-rolling state. After opening the pot two or three times, and then cook for a while, you can eat out of the pot.
5, change the water, the pot of boiling water to cook two or three times in a row after the dumplings, that should be changed in time. Because this time the pot of soup dumplings soup has become thick and greasy, if you continue to use, not only the dumplings cooked slow, and easy to clip.
6, timely cooking, raw dumplings in the glutinous rice flour contains more water, if the dumplings will be done after a long time, there will be deterioration, raw dumplings frozen and then boiled, but also often boil broken skin, affecting the appearance. 7, fast out of the pot, has been cooked dumplings if a moment to eat, should be timely out of the pot, and will be placed in a clean cold water, to be cooled and fished out into the dish.
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Southerners do "Lantern Festival", the first glutinous rice flour and water into a skin, and then the filling "package"; northerners do "Lantern Festival", the first to the filling into an even ball. The filling pinched into a uniform ball, placed in a dry glutinous rice flour paved in the Luo basket constantly shaking, from time to time to add water to make the filling sticky more and more glutinous rice flour, until the size of the right.
"Lantern" size varies, large as walnuts, small as soybeans. There is also a technique to cook "Yuanxiao": gently pinch.
Before the pot, the hand gently pinch the "Lantern", so that it is slightly cracked, so that the cooking out of the "Lantern", inside and outside of the easy to cook, soft and smooth and delicious. The water is boiled down.
When the water in the pot boils, put in the "Lantern", use the back of the spoon to gently push away, let the "Lantern" rotate a few times, it does not stick to the bottom of the pot. The water will be cooked on a medium heat.
"Lantern" into the pot to cook to float, to quickly change to the fire, otherwise, "Lantern" constantly turning, uneven heat, outside cooked inside hard unpalatable. Points of cold water.
"Lantern" into the pot, each open should point into the appropriate amount of cold water, so that it seems to keep rolling non-rolling state. Open two or three times, and then cook for a while, you can fish out and eat.
This cooked "Lantern" soft, not hard, sweet and savory. "Lantern" in addition to cooking, there are a variety of ways to eat: fried "Lantern" If the raw "Lantern", can be "Lantern "First stick on the egg white, and then put into the pot to fry.
This fried "Lantern" has egg flavor. Frying should be constantly turning, so as not to fry impermeable uneven.
When frying "Lantern", sometimes "Lantern" in the frying pan suddenly burst splash injury phenomenon. If in the "Lantern" before the pot with a needle in the "Lantern" on the two small pinhole, you can prevent this phenomenon.
In addition, the frying should use a small fire to warm the oil, so that the fried "Lantern" sweet and savory, crispy skin in the glutinous. The "pulling" Lantern "Lantern" will "Lantern" deep-fried and spare.
Slip the bottom of the pot with cooking oil, put sugar and the right amount of water, simmering sugar thin, when the sugar thin bubbles were yellow, put in the fried "Lantern", stirring with the sugar thin, and quickly out of the pot, eat while hot, just like the gold beads entangled silk, interesting. Dressing "Lantern" Sesame seeds fried and ground into the boiling thick sugar paste in the pot, and then poured into the fried "Lantern", rolling sticky uniform, out of the pot on the plate, one by one, each set apart, non-stick, cold food, hot food are suitable.
Steaming "Lantern" will be "Lantern" into a layer of oiled wanton plate or metal plate, into the pot steamed, take out and sprinkle with sugar can be. It is easy to make and is very tasty.
Roasted "Lanterns" will be "Lanterns" set into a metal plate smeared with oil, even the plate into the oven, baked until the color is golden, cooked through, take out the plate, eat with sugar, taste sweet and fragrant. (Food Herald Wu Guangquan) change the way to eat Lantern Festival Lantern Festival old a way to eat not much flavor, I have tried several new ways to eat, in the Lantern Festival is coming, to recommend to everyone.
Soup cooking Lantern: to master the "rolling down the water, diffuse water cooking" essentials, and use a spoon to push the turn, not sticky pot. When the water boils, you can add a little cool water to keep it like a rolling non-rolling state.
Cooked to the surface of the virtual, can be served in a bowl. Deep Fried Lanterns: first the oil is hot, then the Lanterns under the frying pan and gently turn a few times, to be all the Lanterns virtual rise, fish out sprinkled with sugar can be eaten.
Plucked Lanterns: first oil to make the bottom of the pot smooth, and then put the sugar and the right amount of water with the fire into a thick paste, when bubbling yellow, will be deep-fried Lanterns into the pot, and sugar paste mixing, and quickly out of the pot, while hot to eat, it is full of gold extended. Dressing Lanterns: first of all, the sesame seeds will be fried and crushed, put into the frying pan into a paste, and then put the fried Lanterns into the roll sticky uniform, out of the pan on the plate, one by one to open up, each other do not stick to each other, hot and cold food are suitable.
Drunken Lanterns: The special "Baizi head" small Lanterns cooked in a bowl, and then the boiling sweet wine poured into. It's even better if you crack an egg flower into it.
Sweet and sour, soft and smooth, drunken wine, color, aroma and taste. Baked Lanterns: Place the Lanterns in an iron plate smeared with cooking oil, bake in the oven until golden brown, take it out and put it in a small plate, sprinkle with sugar.
This is not only non-greasy, but also fragrant and sweet.
This is not only non-greasy, but also sweet and refreshing.
6. How to Cook Lanterns How to Cook Delicious Lanterns
Pinch gently. In the pot before, should be clean hands slightly pinch curfew, so that its skin slightly cracked, so that the pot after cooking through the curfew inside and outside are cooked, will not pinch raw, and soft and smooth delicious. Boiling water under the water to boil, put the Lantern slowly into the pot, at the same time should be followed by a spoon to gently push it away from the same direction, slightly stirring, so that it rotates a few circles, do not stick to the pot. Slow cooking on high heat for a few moments, to be the currant floats, quickly switch to a small fire and slow cooking, otherwise it will make the currant in the pot constantly rolling, cooking the currant outside the cooked in the raw is not delicious. Points of cold water in the process of cooking the Lantern, each boiling pot should be at the same time point into the appropriate amount of cold water, so that the pot of Lanterns to maintain a seemingly rolling non-rolling state.
After opening the pot two or three times, and then cook for a while, you can eat out of the pot. Diligent water change pot of boiling water after cooking two or three times in a row, that should be timely water change. Because this time the pot of Lantern soup has become thick and greasy, if you continue to use, not only Lantern cooked slow, and easy to clip raw. Timely cooking of raw rice ball glutinous rice flour contains more water, if the rice ball is done after a long time, there will be deterioration phenomenon, the raw rice ball is frozen and then boiled, but also often boil broken skin, affecting the appearance. Quickly out of the pot has been boiled Lanterns if a moment to eat, should be timely out of the pot, and will be placed in a clean cold water, to be cooled and fished out into the dish.
Lanterns common sense
Calories: Lanterns contain a lot of fat and sugar, so the calories are very high, for overweight or hyperlipidemia, hypertension, diabetes, should not be excessive intake. For gout patients, high-fat food will affect the excretion of uric acid, increasing the possibility of gout. The four sesame seeds of the snacks are equal to the calories of a bowl of rice, and the small stuffed dumplings are equal to the calories of a bowl of rice, so you can eat the stuffed dumplings to reduce the calorie intake, or to walk briskly for an hour to consume these calories.
Skin: Whether it's the Northern Lantern or the Southern Tangyuan, the skin is made of glutinous rice flour. Glutinous rice contains more starch, viscous high, not easy to digest, gastrointestinal function is not good, the elderly, children, in the consumption of dumplings should pay special attention to avoid causing indigestion or swallowing obstacles. Filling: There are many kinds of filling for Lanterns, sweet and salty. Whether sweet, salty filling, which is high in fat, for the sake of delicious, often use lard.
In addition, sweet fillings often make diabetics lose control of blood sugar. Peanuts, sesame seeds, bean paste and other high phosphorus content, will aggravate the condition of patients with kidney disease, should pay special attention. Soup sweet filling Lanterns itself has a sweet flavor, so the soup does not need to add sugar to reduce calorie intake. If there is no filling small dumplings, sweet soup can be replaced by cinnamon red date soup or cinnamon ginger soup, in addition to reducing sugar, but also have the effect of replenishing the body to drive away the cold. Salty dumplings can put small shrimp and vegetables, more calcium and fiber supplement. However, it should be noted that the soup do not put too much fat or seasoning.
7. Cooking Lanterns what tips
Cooking Lanterns tips: There are many varieties of Lanterns, divided into two categories of filling heart, no filling heart.
Unstuffed snacks are usually sweet, with honey dates, cinnamon, lotus root, cinnamon and so on. There are sweet and salty filled snacks.
Lanterns bought, cooking Lanterns also have a small learning, must master to master a few points, Baogun to eat delicious Lanterns: Cooking Lanterns to master a few points: 1. Gently pinch. Before the pot, the hand gently pinch the currant, so that it is slightly cracked, so that cooked out of the currant, inside and outside easy to cook, soft and smooth and delicious.
2. boiling water. To boil the water with a high fire, and then put the currant into the pot, gently push the back of the spoon, let the currant rotate a few times, it does not stick to the bottom of the pot.
3. Boil over moderate heat. Lanterns into the pot to cook to float, to quickly switch to the fire, at this time, if you are still cooking with high heat, Lanterns continue to roll on the rupture.
If the currant is constantly turning, the heat is not uniform, but also easy to cook inside hard unpalatable. 4. Point cold water.
Lanterns into the pot, each open should point into the right amount of cold water, so that it seems to keep rolling non-rolling state, open two or three times, and then cook for a while, you can fish out to eat. This cooked Lantern soft not hard, sweet and savory.
5. Diligent soup. Lanterns cooked two or three pots, the soup becomes thick, greatly binding the activities of water molecules, should change the water and then cook.
Otherwise, it will be cooked slowly, easy to clip. Cooking Lanterns to put more water, water boiling after the fire will be reduced, see the water surface has a slight rolling, it can be Lanterns down to the pot, the cultural fire to cook for 10 minutes after the fluffy can be up, the family gourmet meal.