The method of red bean lantern festival 1, wash red beans and cook for 20-30 minutes on medium and small fire.

2. Put glutinous rice flour into a bowl, scoop a spoonful of hot water, stir well, then add cold water and knead into dough.

3. Press the dough to a thickness of 1cm and cut it into small pieces. Add a proper amount of water to the bowl, add red beans, crush the wine and pour it into the pot.

4. Add water to the lotus root powder to melt, put it into the pot, float it, pour in the lotus root powder, and it will be sticky and then serve.

The practice of Yuanxiao is based on stuffing, which is mixed first, then spread into large round slices, dried and then cut into cubes smaller than table tennis.

Then put the stuffing into a machine like a big sieve, pour the rice flour on it, and "sieve" it. As the stuffing collides with each other, the rice sticks to the surface of the stuffing and becomes spherical, which becomes Yuanxiao.

The North "rolls" Yuanxiao and the South "wraps" Tangyuan, which are two foods with different practices and tastes.

Nanjing's diet is famous for Jinling cuisine, which refers to the cuisine centered in Nanjing and extending to Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province. It is one of the four representative dishes of Jiangsu cuisine.

Jinling cuisine originated in the pre-Qin period. At the end of the Warring States Period, Qu Yuan recorded Jinling cuisine at that time in Chu Ci. Sui and Tang Dynasties were famous, and it became a genre in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, reaching its peak in the Republic of China. Jinling cuisine in the Republic of China enjoyed a high reputation, known as the "Beijing-Soviet cuisine", and was loved by celebrities in the upper class. Many famous families were proud of the "Beijing-Soviet feast".

Jinling snacks rank first among the four largest snacks in China, and the main concentration places are Laomendong, Confucius Temple, Lion Bridge, etc., such as Nanjing Dapai Dang, Yin's Chicken Soup Bao, Lianhu Cake Group Store, Lvliuju, etc. In addition, there are Qinhuai Eight Absolutely, Duck Blood Fan Soup, Steamed Buns, Boiled Dried Silk, Pidumian, Ruyi Huilu Dried, Assorted Tofu Waterlogging, Beef Pot Sticker and Zhuangyuan Bean.

The four famous dishes in Jinling include boiled eggs, Meiren liver, anchovies and squirrel fish. The third stew in Nanjing is stewed raw and beaten, with vegetable stones, chicken fu, and the third fork in Jinling is fork roast duck, fork roasted mandarin fish and fork roasted crispy square, as well as shrimps with hibiscus, smoked pine nuts and Jinling sauced duck, Nanjing salted duck and salted duck, etc. There are "dry eight fresh" and "dry eight fresh" which are characterized by dry plants and aquatic plants.