This Saturday is the Lantern Festival.
Although there is no flower-changing festival this year due to the epidemic,
also has no fireworks,
But the Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese holiday,
The
, which we still want to share with our family, is also known as the Shangyuan Festival, which existed as early as 2000 years ago in the Western Han Dynasty.
What to eat during Lantern Festival?
The fifteenth day of the first month is the Lantern Festival
Besides the glutinous rice balls that the public knows
Lantern Festival has other food customs
What is good to eat during Lantern Festival?
元宵
On the Lantern Festival, people in the south eat dumplings, and in the north it is called Yuanxiao. The main prayer is for family reunion. The glutinous rice used to make glutinous rice balls is smooth in nature, sweet in taste, invigorating the deficiency and regulating blood, invigorating the spleen and appetizing, replenishing qi and relieving diarrhea, and has the functions of warming, promoting body fluid and moisturizing dryness. At the beginning of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, glutinous rice balls had become the food for the Lantern Festival, so people called it "Lantern Festival".
According to the theory of filling, there are two types of filling and no filling. There are fillings, and there are salty, sweet, meat, and vegetarian. According to the production method, there are hand rubbing, yuanxiao mechanism and bamboo plaque water rolling And so on; according to the powder system, there are glutinous rice noodles, sorghum rice noodles and so on.
元宵茶
In Shaanxi and other places, there is a custom of eating Yuanxiao tea, which is to put a variety of vegetables and fruits in the hot noodle soup, much like the ancient "Yuanxiao porridge". This tea increases the intake of cellulose, minerals and vitamins, and is not as greasy as ordinary Lantern Festival. It has a neutralizing effect on the acidic body due to the polyphagia of animal food during festivals, and also makes the Lantern Festival more comprehensive.
打油茶
For the night food of Lantern Festival, the flat ground says "fifteen flats, sixteen yuan", one day dumplings, one day Yuanxiao; mountainous areas are "fifteen dozen oil tea" , Sixteen pinched flat food". It is the so-called "Ten Miles Are Different". Making tea is to stir the tea noodles with chopsticks to make camellia, or noodle tea.
油茶面
Oil tea noodles, also called fried noodles, is a very distinctive snack in Shaanxi, and it is also one of the essential traditional foods for the Lantern Festival. It is to stir-fry the raw flour, add butter, and then add other ingredients to make a paste.
Lettuce
During the Lantern Festival, Cantonese like to "steal" lettuce and mix it with pastry for cooking. It is said that this food represents auspiciousness. Cantonese people have a calm and honest personality, and they are the best for festivals. Lettuce, which is most often used in festivals such as new store openings, is also a must-have for the Lantern Festival. Lettuce, which is often a common vegetable on the southern dinner table, is homonymous with "make money", so it is also regarded as a symbol of wealth and good fortune.
油锤
The Lantern Festival food, rice porridge or bean porridge topped with gravy during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. But this food is mainly used for sacrificial offerings, not to mention festival food. It was only in the Tang Dynasty Zheng Wangzhi’s "Lu Shi Fu Lu" that it was recorded: "Bianzhong is on a diet, and the yuan oil hammer is used." The preparation method of the oil hammer is based on a "Shang Shi Ling" quoted in "Taiping Guang Ji" in "Lu Shi Za Shuo" "The record is similar to the fried Yuanxiao of future generations. Some people call it "Pearl of Oil Painting".
Red dates cake
People in the west of Henan like to eat jujube cakes during the Lantern Festival, with auspicious meaning. Jujube cake was originally a cake for the imperial court of the Qing Dynasty. It has a far fragrant taste and a sweet taste. It contains vitamin C, protein, calcium, iron, vitamins and other nutrients. It can not only replenish the spleen and stomach, nourish qi and promote fluid; it also protects the liver and increases muscles. Power, beauty and anti-aging effect.
面条
There is a folk proverb in the Jiangbei area that "light the Lantern Festival, turn off the lantern noodles, and look forward to the next year after eating." The locals eat noodles on the 15th night of the first lunar month.It sounds irrelevant to the Lantern Festival, but it also means praying for auspiciousness. "Yi Hui Sui Shi Ji" contains: "(In the first month) when the lantern is eighteen, people eat the noodles. It is commonly called'the lamp is round and the lamp is noodles'. Each family celebrates its own feast. Constant meaning.
湯麵
Taizhou area eats bad soup after seeing the lantern on the 14th of the first month every year. The glutinous rice soup is fried with shredded pork, bamboo shoots, shiitake mushrooms, fungus, fresh dragon, dried bean curd, oil bubble, Sichuan bean plate, spinach, etc., then add a little rice noodles and cook into a salty paste. The glutinous soup drunk on the 15th day of the first lunar month is sweet. It is made with sweet potato flour or lotus root flour with lotus seeds, sweet jujube, longan, etc.
餃子
The fifteenth of the first lunar month is here. The north has the habit of eating dumplings. The people in Henan have the custom and tradition of the Lantern Festival of "fifteen flats and sixteen yuan", so the fifteenth of the first lunar month You should eat dumplings. Dumplings are a kind of folk food with a long history, which is very popular among the people. There is a common saying that "dumplings are delicious but not delicious".
