Generally, dumplings are eaten in the winter solstice, the Spring Festival and the Lantern Festival in the south, while in the north, it is customary to eat them on the Lantern Festival. Eating glutinous rice balls in Lantern Festival not only means celebrating family reunion, but also has the health-keeping effects of keeping out the cold, nourishing the spleen and stomach and benefiting the lung qi.
The implication of eating glutinous rice balls in Lantern Festival
Lantern Festival, as a holiday, has a long history in China. At that time, a kind of food for Lantern Festival was popular among the people. This kind of food was first called "Floating Yuanzi" and later called "Yuanxiao", and businessmen also called it "Yuanbao". In ancient times, Yuanxiao was more expensive.
On the fifteenth day of the first month, Yuanxiao, also known as dumplings, is filled with white sugar, roses, sesame seeds, bean paste, walnuts and nuts, and wrapped in glutinous rice flour. It can be cooked in soup, fried or steamed, which means a happy reunion. However, the dumplings in Shaanxi are not wrapped, but rolled out of glutinous rice flour, which can be cooked or fried.
Matters needing attention in eating glutinous rice balls in Lantern Festival
1, Tangyuan is delicious, but it is not advisable to eat more. Tangyuan is a high-calorie and high-sugar food, which contains oil and lacks nutrition. Besides calories and sugar, there is not much nutrition.
2. Tangyuan should not be eaten in the morning. The gastrointestinal function is the weakest in the morning, and the outer skin of glutinous rice dumplings is mostly made of glutinous rice, which is not easy to be digested, and it is easy to be digested for breakfast.
3. When eating glutinous rice balls, don't eat other foods with high sugar content and reduce the intake of other staple foods. Generally speaking, eating 3. Tangyuan is equivalent to 1 two staple foods. Generally, the intake of staple food is about 2 Liang, and the number of dumplings eaten is controlled at about 5 to 6. Excessive consumption will cause a burden on the stomach.
4. Eat less fried dumplings. Although fried glutinous rice balls are crispy, they will make the proportion of oil in glutinous rice balls with high oil content higher, increase energy density and become more unhealthy food. In patients with gallbladder and pancreatic diseases, eating fried glutinous rice balls is likely to aggravate the condition.
5. For special people, such as infants, the elderly, people with weak digestion after illness and people with gastrointestinal diseases, it is suggested that glutinous rice dumplings should be avoided, and diabetics should eat less or not. It is suggested that healthy adults should eat dumplings in moderation, about 50 grams a day, and don't eat too much. In addition, patients with overweight, hyperlipidemia and hypertension should not eat too much glutinous rice balls containing a lot of oil and sugar.
What traditional food do you eat for Lantern Festival?
1, bean noodles: local characteristics, but also belong to bean products, the taste is sweet, Kunming people like to eat bean dough, the practice is similar to Yuanxiao, that is, stir-fry the beans, grind them, make them into balls and cook them with water, and the taste is good.
2, Yuanxiao: Yuanxiao is a very common food, ordinary glutinous rice food is not easy to digest, so it doesn't matter if you eat it once in a while, and it also means that there will be many reunions. There is a folk proverb in Jiangbei area, which says, "Go to Lantern Festival, leave noodles behind, and look forward to next year after eating them." Local people want to eat noodles on the fifteenth night of the first month, which sounds irrelevant to Lantern Festival, but it also means praying for good luck.
3, jujube cake _ Many people like to eat jujube cake, a fermented food, and it is slightly alcoholic, which is also very appetizing. Jujube is also a good food for the body. The habit of eating jujube cake in the Lantern Festival is more common in the northwest, and there are also people who like to eat jujube cake in the south, but it is still rare to regard it as a diet for the Lantern Festival. In addition, eating jujube cake on the Lantern Festival has a good meaning, which symbolizes the good luck and good luck for the whole year.
4, drink soup _ Hunan characteristics, most of them are spicy appetizers, which can drive away the cold in winter. In Shangyuan County, Changde, Hunan Province, pepper is used as soup, and leeks and fruits are added to entertain guests, which is called "time soup".