Eating glutinous rice balls in the Lantern Festival symbolizes reunion and perfection. The polysaccharide of glutinous rice balls is high in calories, sticky, soft and sweet, and it is more refreshing with pungent taste. The nutrition is balanced and beneficial to the spleen and stomach. Three glutinous rice balls are a bowl of soup, and the staple food is halved.
Eat dumplings on the Lantern Festival, round and round. Every year, you and I add beauty to each other and wish you a happy year.
On the Lantern Festival, cook a bowl of glutinous rice balls and have a reunion. Make a lantern, reflecting a smile; Guess a few riddles and add a surprise; Stepping on stilts kills troubles; Send a message, send a sincere!
Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in China. The formation of Lantern Festival custom has a long process, which is rooted in the folk custom of turning on lights to pray for blessings. Light-on and blessing usually begin on the 14th night of the first month, and the 15th night is the "positive light". People light lamps, also known as "sending lamps", for praying to the gods.
The introduction of Buddhist culture in the Eastern Han Dynasty also played an important role in promoting the formation of the Lantern Festival custom. During the Yongping period of Emperor Han Ming, in order to promote Buddhism, Emperor Han Ming ordered "burning lanterns to show Buddha" in the palace and temples on the fifteenth night of the first month. Therefore, the custom of burning lanterns on the fifteenth night of the first month gradually spread in China with the expansion of the influence of Buddhist culture and the addition of Taoist culture.
In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, lantern festival lights gradually became a trend. Liang Wudi believes in Buddhism, and the palace is full of lights on the 15th day of the first month. During the Tang Dynasty, cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries became closer, Buddhism flourished, and officials and ordinary people generally "burned lanterns to offer sacrifices to the Buddha" on the fifteenth day of the first month, so Buddhist lights spread all over the people. Since the Tang Dynasty, it has been legal to display lanterns on Lantern Festival.
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Lantern Festival and Lantern Festival. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called the night "Xiao", so they called the fifteenth day of the first month "Lantern Festival". With the changes of society and times, the customs of Lantern Festival have changed greatly, but it is still a traditional folk festival in China.
The national folk custom eats Yuanxiao:
Eating Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month, as a food, has a long history in China. In the Song Dynasty, a novel food for the 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".
Yuanxiao, or "Tangyuan", is filled with white sugar, rose, sesame, red bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnut kernel, nuts, jujube paste, etc., and wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a round shape, which can be vegetarian and has different flavors. It can be boiled in soup, fried and steamed, which means a happy reunion. Shaanxi dumplings are not wrapped, but "rolled" in glutinous rice flour, or boiled or fried, hot and round.
As a food, Yuanxiao has a long history in China. In the Song Dynasty, a novel food for the 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, the price of "Yuanxiao" was relatively expensive. In the north, Yuanxiao was rolled, and in the south, glutinous rice balls were wrapped. These are two foods with different practices and tastes.