Those Lantern Festival guests must eat delicious food. See if there is anyone you don’t know.
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It’s another Lantern Festival, the same festival, different local customs are different, so let’s take a look at the food customs of Lantern Festival all over the country. See if there’s anything else we haven’t eaten.
1. Tangyuan Tangyuan, also known as "Tangtuan" and "Floating Yuanzi", is one of the must-eat delicacies in the Lantern Festival recognized by most people in China. It is said to have originated in the Song Dynasty. It is made of black sesame seeds and pork suet, with a little sugar added, and kneaded into a round shape with glutinous rice flour outside. When cooked, it tastes sweet and soft, with endless aftertaste. Eating glutinous rice balls also means family happiness and reunion in the new year.
2. Yuanxiao Many people confuse glutinous rice balls with Yuanxiao, but they are actually two kinds of food. Yuanxiao is a favorite of northerners. The stuffing is made into blocks and then rolled in a dustpan with glutinous rice noodles. The stuffing sticks to glutinous rice noodles and gets bigger and bigger. When eating, it is cooked or fried. Yuanxiao symbolizes that the days ahead are getting more and more prosperous.
3. The meaning of lettuce: making money is favored by Cantonese people. Cantonese people "steal" lettuce during the Lantern Festival. They mix lettuce with cakes and cook them, which means wealth and good luck.
4. Yuanxiao Tea has the custom of eating Yuanxiao tea in Shaanxi and other places, that is, putting all kinds of vegetables and fruits in hot soup noodles, much like the ancient "Yuanxiao porridge". People in Huangmei county like to call "coriander" Yuanxiao, and the tea made of fried grains and coriander is called Yuanxiao tea. On the one hand, it will be over after the Lantern Festival, and people take out the remaining coriander to make tea. On the other hand, this kind of tea is moisture-free, nutritious and delicious.
6. Camellia oleifera In some places, there is a saying that "15 dozen Camellia oleifera, 16 pinch flat food". The flat forefinger is dumplings, while the camellia oleifera is similar to a kind of salty porridge or sweet porridge pasta snack with vegetables and fruits. During the Chinese New Year, people eat a lot of fish every day. By the Lantern Festival, it is estimated that nothing is more refreshing than a bowl of hot and delicious camellia oleifera.
7. Of course, jiaozi eats jiaozi during the Lantern Festival. On every reunion festival, China people definitely eat jiaozi. Needless to say, most Chinese people eat jiaozi.
8. Jujube Cake Eat jujube cakes during the Lantern Festival in western Henan. Jujube is a vitamin-rich food, with a rich and mellow fragrance, and has always had the reputation of "live vitamin pills". Jujube cake made of red dates has always been a kind of court cake in the past, with rich jujube fragrance, sweet and pleasant taste, mellow and long aftertaste. It is also an auspicious meaning that implies a step-by-step increase.
9. Wheat Cake The area around Pujiang County, Jinhua, Zhejiang Province has the custom of eating steamed buns and wheat cakes during the Lantern Festival. It is said that the reason is that the steamed bread is made of dough and the wheat cake is round, which means "a happy reunion of the hair and grandchildren". Wheat cakes are sweet and salty, the sweet ones are filled with sugar and sesame seeds, and the salty ones are filled with shrimp skin, chopped green onion, diced meat and dried incense, or mixed with eggs, rolled into the size of a round fan and baked. In Pujiang, handy peasant women often entertain their guests with wheat cakes, especially during the Lantern Festival. In Pujiang, almost every household eats wheat cakes.
10. There is a saying in Taizhou that "the fourteenth day of the first month is the Lantern Festival, and every family has a bad soup." People in Taizhou celebrate the Lantern Festival on 14th, 15th and 2nd, and the real midnight snack is the 14th day of the first month. After the Lantern Festival, people in Taizhou generally don’t eat glutinous rice balls, and the whole family sit around and eat bad soup. Bad soup is thickened with mountain flour, so it is also called mountain flour paste. As the old saying goes, the bitter comes first, and the salty soup pays attention to the taste, highlighting the "fresh" taste. It is better to taste it first, and put the "sweet" behind, so we eat salty soup for fourteen nights and sweet soup for fifteen nights.
Different regions have different customs and habits, and there are different foods. In short, they all mean reunion and good luck.
Program and New Media Production: Zhu Fen
Editor: Li Xia Zhao Wenli
Final review: Ma Xiang and the Red Army
