Besides the Lantern Festival, what food should we eat?

What to eat on the fifteenth day of the first month?

Tangyuan 1

On the Lantern Festival, southerners eat jiaozi, which means family reunion and happiness.

Tangyuan is made of glutinous rice flour and water, and then filled with various fillings prepared in advance, usually dried fruits and fruits with vegetable oil, such as peanuts, sesame seeds and walnuts. Finally, wrap the glutinous rice into a ball.

2. Lantern Festival

On the Lantern Festival, northerners want to eat Yuanxiao. Speaking of Yuanxiao, many people think that glutinous rice balls are Yuanxiao. In fact, Yuanxiao and Tangyuan are actually two things, although there is little difference in raw materials and appearance. The most essential difference lies in the production process. It's easier to make dumplings. Generally, glutinous rice flour is mixed with water to make skin, and then "wrapped" stuffing. Making Yuanxiao is much more complicated: first, you need to mix dough and cut the solidified stuffing into small pieces. After watering once, throw it into a basket filled with glutinous rice flour and knead it into a ball, while sprinkling water until the stuffing is covered with glutinous rice flour and knead it into a ball.

3. Lettuce; lettuce

Cantonese people like to "steal" lettuce and cook it with cakes during the Lantern Festival. It is said that this kind of food represents good luck. Guangdong people are calm and down-to-earth, and have good intentions for festivals. Lettuce, which is most commonly used in festive occasions such as the opening of new stores, is also an essential holiday product for the Lantern Festival. Lettuce, often a common vegetable on the dining table in the south, is homophonic with "getting rich", so it is also regarded as a festive thing symbolizing wealth and good fortune.

4. Lantern Festival tea

Shaanxi and other places have the custom of eating Yuanxiao tea on the Lantern Festival. Although it is called Yuanxiao tea, it is not directly related to Yuanxiao. Yuanxiao tea is made by adding various fruits and vegetables to hot noodle soup. After eating greasy food such as big fish and big meat in the New Year, eating this kind of Yuanxiao tea rich in vitamins, dietary fiber and minerals on the fifteenth day of the first month can alleviate the greasy feeling.

5. Camellia oleifera

Eating at the Lantern Festival night, the ground said "fifteen flat, sixteen yuan", one day to eat jiaozi, one day to eat Yuanxiao; In mountainous areas, it is "15 dozen camellia oleifera, 16 pinch flat grain". As the saying goes, "ten miles are different." Making tea is to stir tea noodles with chopsticks to make camellia oleifera, also called noodle tea.

6. Oil hammer

During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, rice porridge or bean porridge was used as the festival food for the Lantern Festival. However, this kind of food is mainly used for sacrifice, not holiday food. Until the Tang Dynasty, Zheng's Record of Chefs recorded: "Go on a diet in the middle of the year and get rid of the oil hammer." According to the records in Tai Ping Guang Ji, Lu Shi Miscellaneous Notes and Guru Order, the method of making oil hammer is similar to that of frying Yuanxiao in later generations. Some people call it "the pearl in oil painting".

7. jiaozi

On the fifteenth day of the first month, northerners have the habit of eating jiaozi, while people in Henan have the custom and tradition of "fifteen flats and sixteen circles" for Lantern Festival, so they should eat jiaozi on the fifteenth day of the first month. Jiaozi is a folk food with a long history and is deeply loved by people. There is a folk saying "delicious but not as good as jiaozi".

8, jujube cake

People in western Henan like to eat jujube cakes on the Lantern Festival, which means good luck. Jujube cake was originally the imperial cake of Qing Dynasty. It is sweet and fragrant, and contains vitamin C, protein, calcium, iron, vitamins and other nutrients, which can not only replenish the spleen and stomach, but also benefit qi and promote fluid production. It also has the functions of protecting the liver, increasing muscle strength, beautifying and preventing aging.

9.sticky cake

Sticky cakes are also called rice cakes. Besides Yuanxiao and noodles, some people eat sticky cakes on the Lantern Festival. Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty, wrote in "Prescription for Emergency Use Dietotherapy" that "autotrophic rice is sweet, slightly cold, non-toxic, clearing heat and benefiting qi." After the Tang Dynasty, there were also records of eating cakes during the Lantern Festival in the Yuan Dynasty.

10, surface lamp

Starting from the Han Dynasty, it was a custom to light a surface lamp. Many people don't know what it is, but it is actually a kind of lamp made of flour, also known as a face lamp, which is mainly a custom in northern China. Surface lamps come in many shapes. Generally, 12 lights will be made, and 13 lights will be made in leap years. Cooking oil will be put into the lamp, and then they will be lit. This is a water surface lamp. The lanterns during the Lantern Festival have auspicious meanings and can ward off evil spirits. Because the ancient science was not developed, the amount of cooking oil left in the noodle lamp was used to predict the flood and drought in the next twelve months of the year, and the noodle lamp was steamed on the sixteenth day of the first month. In some places, the surface lamp is steamed in a pot, and the remaining water quantity of the surface lamp is predicted after steaming.

1 1, bean noodles

People in Kunming like to eat bean noodles, similar to Yuanxiao. Is to fry and grind the beans, then make them into balls and cook them with water. It tastes good.

12, rotten soup

People in Taizhou, Zhejiang, eat salty rotten soup on the fourteenth day of the first month and sweet rotten soup on the first month. Rotten soup, also called mountain batter, is a Lantern Festival food in Taizhou, which belongs to one of the traditional snacks. They eat bad soup after watching lanterns on the fourteenth day of the first month. Bad soup can be divided into salty and sweet, mainly based on lotus root starch, rice flour or potato flour, and then add your favorite ingredients to make your favorite taste.

13, steamed bread, wheat cake

There is a custom of eating steamed bread and wheat cakes in Pujiang, Zhejiang Province during the Lantern Festival. It is said that the reason is that steamed bread is made of dough, and wheat cakes are round, which means "happy reunion of children and grandchildren". In Shangyuan County, Changde City, Hunan Province, it is called "time soup" to make soup with Chili peppers and add leeks and fruits to entertain guests.

14, noodles

There is a folk proverb in Jiangbei, which is called "Shangyuan Festival, save noodles, and look forward to next year after eating." Local people eat noodles on the fifteenth night of the first month, which sounds unrelated to the Lantern Festival, but it also means praying for good luck. "Annals of the Emblem" states: "On the 18th day of the first month, the lights go out and people spit on their faces. As the saying goes,' when the light is on, it goes out', and everyone celebrates. " Eating noodles with lights out symbolizes continuous celebration.