"Must Eat" Traditional Cuisine

What is glutinous rice balls?

Tangyuan, also known as "Tangtuan" and "Floating Zi Yuan", is one of the representatives of Han traditional snacks. It is also the most distinctive food in the traditional Lantern Festival in China, expressing the yearning and expectation for a happy life. Black sesame seeds and pig fat are used as stuffing, a little sugar is added, and glutinous rice flour is used to knead the outside into a circle. After cooking, the taste is sweet and soft, with endless aftertaste. At the same time, glutinous rice balls symbolize family reunion, and eating glutinous rice balls also means family happiness and reunion in the New Year, which is a necessary food for the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month.

Tangyuan culture

Eating dumplings is a traditional custom of Han people, especially in Jiangnan. There is a folk saying that "eating glutinous rice balls is one year older". Chen Zhisui's poem "Tangyuan" said: "Every winter solstice, everyone cooks, and at the age of one, you know nothing"; Hu also has a poem day: "Xiangze glutinous rice makes glutinous rice dumplings, boiling water floats silver, and salt is rich." The entrance is sweet and smooth, and the family is happy and intoxicated. "'Ningbo Tangyuan' is a must-have food and a round dessert made of glutinous rice flour." Round means "reunion" and "perfection". Eating glutinous rice balls during festivals symbolizes family harmony and auspiciousness, so it is also called "floating Zi Yuan".

Characteristics of glutinous rice balls

There are sesame seeds, red bean paste, walnuts, nuts, jujube paste and so on in the glutinous rice balls. And wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a circle, you can be vegetarian and have different flavors. It can be boiled, fried and steamed, which means happy reunion.