Dietary customs before and after Lantern Festival
Tangyuan 1
On the Lantern Festival, southerners eat glutinous rice balls mainly to pray for the whole family to be round and round. The glutinous rice used in making glutinous rice balls is flat and sweet, which has the effects of tonifying deficiency, regulating blood, invigorating spleen, appetizing, benefiting qi and stopping diarrhea, warming the middle warmer, promoting fluid production and moistening dryness. Tangyuan is wrapped and Yuanxiao is rolled. Like wrapping jiaozi, glutinous rice flour and water are mixed into dough, and then stuffing is wrapped. The name of dumplings is similar to the word "reunion".
2. Lantern Festival
On the Lantern Festival, northerners want to eat Yuanxiao. Speaking of Yuanxiao, many people think that glutinous rice balls are Yuanxiao. In fact, Yuanxiao and Tangyuan are actually two different things, although there is almost no difference in raw materials and appearance. The most essential difference lies in the production process. Making dumplings is relatively simple. Generally, glutinous rice flour is mixed with water to make skin, and then "wrapped" stuffing. Making Yuanxiao is much more complicated: first, you need to mix the dough and cut the solidified stuffing into small pieces. After watering once, throw it into a basket filled with glutinous rice flour and roll it, while sprinkling water until the stuffing is covered with glutinous rice flour and rolled into balls.
3. Bean dough
People in Kunming like to eat bean noodles, similar to Yuanxiao. Is to fry and grind the beans, then make them into balls and cook them with water. It tastes good.
4. Bad soup
Taizhou area eats bad soup after watching lanterns on the fourteenth day of the first month every year. Stir-fry the soup with shredded pork, shredded winter bamboo shoots, mushrooms, fungus, fresh duck, dried bean curd, oil bubble, Sichuan bean board, spinach, etc. Then add a little rice flour and cook it into salty paste food. The bad soup drunk on the fifteenth day of the first month is sweet, made of sweet potato powder or lotus root powder with lotus seeds, candied dates, longan and so on.
5, steamed bread, wheat cake
Pujiang, Zhejiang Province has the custom of eating steamed buns and wheat cakes during the Lantern Festival. It is said that the reason is that steamed bread is made of dough and wheat cakes are round, which means "reunion of grandchildren". In Shangyuan County, Changde, Hunan Province, Chili peppers are used as soup, and leeks and fruits are added to entertain guests, which is called "time soup".
6. Noodles
In Jiangbei area, there is a folk proverb "Spend the Lantern Festival, drop noodles, and look forward to next year after eating", and there is also a folk proverb "Spend the Lantern Festival, drop noodles, and look forward to next year after eating", so local people will eat a bowl of noodles on the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, which means praying for good luck, eating noodles and throwing lights symbolizes constant celebration.
7. Lantern Festival tea
In Shaanxi and other places, there is a custom of eating Yuanxiao tea, that is, putting all kinds of vegetables and fruits in hot soup noodles, much like the ancient "Yuanxiao porridge". This kind of tea increases the intake of cellulose, minerals and vitamins, and is not as greasy as ordinary Yuanxiao. It has a neutralizing effect on the acidic constitution caused by eating too much animal food in festivals, and also makes the nutrition of Yuanxiao more comprehensive.
8. Lettuce; lettuce
Cantonese people like to "steal" lettuce and cook it with cakes during the Lantern Festival. It is said that this kind of food represents good luck. Guangdong people are calm and practical, and they have the best intentions for festivals. Lettuce is most commonly used in festive occasions such as the opening of new stores, and it is also an essential holiday product for the Lantern Festival. Lettuce is often a common vegetable on the dining table in the south, which is homophonic with "making money", so it is also regarded as a festive thing symbolizing wealth and good luck.
9.camellia oleifera
Eating Camellia oleifera in Lantern Festival is very popular among Dong and Yao people in Guangxi, Guizhou and Hunan. Not the "tea" we brewed, but the "noodle tea" fried in advance. The fried tea pollen is cooked into a paste, which is warm and delicious, and ground sesame seeds and peanuts are added to it, which means a bumper harvest and happiness in the coming year.
10, jujube cake
People in western Henan like to eat jujube cakes on the Lantern Festival. Eating jujube cakes on Lantern Festival means that the future will be prosperous and sweet.
1 1 jiaozi
On the fifteenth day of the first month, northerners have the habit of eating jiaozi, while Henan people have the custom and tradition of "15 levels and 16 yuan" in the Lantern Festival, so they should eat jiaozi on the fifteenth day of the first month. Jiaozi is a folk food with a long history and is deeply loved by people. There is a saying among the people that "it's delicious but not as good as jiaozi".
Lantern festival traditional food
1, Camellia oleifera
Eating at the Lantern Festival night, the ground says "fifteen flat, sixteen yuan", one day to eat jiaozi, one day to eat Yuanxiao; In mountainous areas, it is "fifteen dozen camellia oleifera and sixteen pinch flat food". As the saying goes, "ten miles are different." Tea-making is to mix tea noodles with chopsticks to make camellia oleifera, also called noodle tea.
2. Sticky cake
Sticky cakes are also called rice cakes. Besides Yuanxiao and noodles, some people eat sticky cakes on the Lantern Festival. Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty, wrote in "Prescription for Emergency Treatment": "Autotrophic rice is sweet, slightly cold, non-toxic, clearing heat and benefiting qi." After the Tang Dynasty, there were also records of eating cakes during the Lantern Festival in the Yuan Dynasty.
3. Surface lamp
Speaking of the custom of Lantern Festival, people usually think of eating glutinous rice balls, enjoying lanterns and solve riddles on the lanterns. However, there is also a custom handed down from the Han Dynasty, that is, the bean noodle lantern at 15 o'clock in the first month. Lantern Festival lanterns are auspicious lanterns, which can drive away evil spirits and diseases. Therefore, squeezing bean flour lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first month is the common people's prayer for happiness and prosperity in the new year.
Having said that, when the Lantern Festival comes on the fifteenth day of the first month, you must remember to eat it, because the traditional food of the Lantern Festival has a beautiful auspicious meaning. Eating it can bring blessings to the whole year, and the old tradition should be passed down more.