2. Tangyuan, one of the representatives of traditional snacks in China, is a spherical food made of glutinous rice flour. There are usually fillings, which are cooked and eaten with soup. At the same time, it is also the most distinctive food of the Lantern Festival with a long history.
It is said that glutinous rice balls originated in Song Dynasty. At that time, Mingzhou (now Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province) began to eat a novel food, which was filled with black sesame seeds and lard, with a little sugar, and wrapped in glutinous rice flour. After cooking, it tastes sweet, delicious and interesting.
4. Because this kind of glutinous rice dumplings will float and be heavy when cooked in a pot, it was originally called "floating Zi Yuan", and later it was renamed as jiaozi in some areas.
5. jiaozi symbolizes better family reunion, and eating jiaozi means family happiness and reunion in the new year, so it is a must-have food for the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month. In some areas in the south, people will also get used to eating glutinous rice balls during the Spring Festival instead of jiaozi.