1, dumplings

Southern people eat dumplings, mainly to pray for the family reunion. The glutinous rice used to make dumplings is flat, sweet, tonic and blood, spleen and stomach, beneficial to stop diarrhea, warm, warm and moist function. Moreover, the regular filling of all kinds of dumplings is mainly made of fruits and dried fruits, including sesame seeds, walnuts, peanuts, plus vegetable oil, which makes the nutritional value of the dumplings "higher level". Boiled dumplings are the simplest way to eat, in fact, is also the healthiest way to eat.

2, Lantern

Northern people eat Lantern, Lantern is a kind of Chinese people in accordance with the custom in the first month of the lunar calendar, the 15th Lantern Festival and the Spring Festival cooking food. There have been a variety of names, such as noodles cocoon, powder fruit, Yuanbao, soup cake, round not fall angle, etc., the Ming Yongle years officially named the Lantern Festival

Many people think that the dumplings is Lantern Festival, although the Lantern Festival and dumplings, despite the raw materials, the appearance of the difference is not great, the actual is two kinds of things, there is still a fundamental difference.

Production process

Northern "roll" Lantern

Lantern in the production of more cumbersome than the dumplings: the first need to be and good, solidified filling cut into small pieces, over the water again, and then thrown into a colander full of glutinous rice noodles rolled, and then over the water, continue to return to the colander rolled, and repeated a few times until the filling is full of glutinous rice noodles. Stuffing full of glutinous rice noodles rolled into a ball before the completion of the work. In addition, the Lantern Festival can be boiled in soup, steamed, deep-fried. Especially deep-fried Lantern, the outside of the glutinous rice flour after deep-frying will be fluffy, bite the glutinous rice is particularly sticky, the filling will flow out of its own, especially slippery.

Southern "package" dumplings

The practice of dumplings is a bit like wrapping dumplings: first glutinous rice flour and water and dough (with dumplings and the same), with a small hand pulling a small group of wet flour, squeezed into the shape of a round piece. Pick a ball of filling on the glutinous rice sheet, and then use both hands to turn the edge of the mouth to make dumplings, usually the southern dumplings can only be boiled.

Taste

Because of the different production processes, the texture of the dumplings is a bit coarser than that of the soup dumplings. Lanterns after cooking, the soup will be thicker, with glutinous rice noodle porridge, soft skin, filling hard and solid "bite", fruity and rice aroma is strong, while the dumplings are more thin and soft.

The biggest feature of the Lantern is sweet, relatively few types of fillings, mainly black sesame, five kernels, bean paste, etc., plus some sugar. Soup dumplings are different, in addition to sweet, savory, both filled and unfilled solid.

3, dumplings

New Year's Eve is here, the north has the habit of eating dumplings, Henan people have "fifteen flat, sixteen round" Lantern Festival customs, traditions, so the first month of the fifteenth should eat dumplings. Dumplings is a long history of folk food, popular with the people, folk have "delicious but dumplings" proverb.

4, Lantern Tea

In Shaanxi and other places have eaten Lantern Tea custom, that is, in the hot soup noodles into a variety of vegetables and fruits, much like the ancient "Lantern Porridge". This tea increases the intake of fiber, minerals and vitamins, and is not as greasy as the ordinary Lantern, for the holidays due to eat more animal food and the presentation of the acidic body has a neutralizing effect, but also to make the Lantern's nutrition is more comprehensive.

5, noodles

Jiangbei folk "lantern lanterns Lanterns, falling lanterns noodles, eat after looking forward to next year," the folk proverb, the local people in the first month of the fifteenth night to eat noodles, sounds unrelated to the Lanterns, but also pray for good luck. Yihui chronicle: "(first month) eighteen lights, people eat noodles, commonly known as 'on the lamp round son of the falling lamp noodles', each family since the feast Zhiqing." Eating noodles at the end of the lamp means that the celebration will continue unceasingly.

6, lettuce

Cantonese people over the Lantern Festival like to "steal" pick lettuce, mixed with cakes to cook, it is said that this food represents good luck. Cantonese people's character is calm and real, the festivities are also the most figure a good intention, usually most commonly used in the opening of new stores and other festive occasions of lettuce, is also the Lantern Festival must have festive supplies. Often become a common vegetable on the dinner table in the South lettuce, the name and "wealth" resonance, so it is also seen as a symbol of wealth and good luck of the festive things.

7, steamed buns, wheat cakes

Pujiang, Zhejiang Province, in the Lantern Festival around the custom of eating steamed buns, wheat cakes. It is said that the reason is that the steamed bread for the hair surface, wheat cakes for the round, take "hair children and grandchildren reunion" meaning. Changde, Hunan Province, on the Yuan family to pepper for the soup, adding leeks to watch the fruit of the guests, known as the "soup".

8, bad soup

Taizhou area every year on the 14th day of the first month after seeing the lanterns eat bad soup. Bad soup with shredded meat, shredded asparagus, mushrooms, fungus, fresh dragon, dried beans, oil bubbles, Sichuan bean board, spinach, etc. fried, and then add a little rice flour, boiled into a paste with a salty flavor food. On the 15th day of the first lunar month, you can drink a sweet soup made of sweet potato flour or lotus root flour with lotus seeds, sweet jujubes and cinnamon balls.

9, jujube cake

Yuxi people around the Lantern Festival like to eat jujube cake, with auspicious symbolism. Jujube cake was originally the Qing Dynasty Palace Imperial pastry, the flavor of the far, sweet, containing vitamin C, protein, calcium, iron, vitamins and other nutrients, both to replenish the spleen and stomach, beneficial to the vitality of the body; and to protect the liver, increase muscle strength, skin and prevent the efficacy of the decline.

10, sticky cake

Sticky cake is also known as rice cake. Lantern Festival in addition to Lantern Festival, noodles, and eat sticky cake. Tang Dynasty famous doctor Sun Simiao's "preparation of emergency Qianjin want to formula - food treatment" in the name of the whitebread "since the beam rice, sweet, slightly cold, non-toxic, in addition to heat, beneficial gas." After the Tang Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty, there is also a Lantern Festival food cake records