Essay on Lantern Festival.

Yuanxiao, the original meaning is "the night of the first yuan festival", because the first day of the first month of the "first yuan festival" main activity is the night of the lanterns to enjoy the moon, and later the name of the festival also evolved into "Lantern Festival". The Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar is another climax of the celebrations that have been going on since New Year's Eve. On the night of the Lantern Festival, the streets and alleys are decorated with lanterns, people enjoy the lanterns, riddles, eating Lantern Festival, which has become a custom for generations.

Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, as early as 2000 years ago in the Western Han Dynasty, the Lantern Festival began in the Eastern Han Dynasty Mingdi period, Mingdi advocated Buddhism, heard that Buddhism has the 15th day of the first month of the monks to see the Buddha's relics, lighted lamps to honor the Buddha's practice, the night of the order in the palace and temples lighted lamps to honor the Buddha, so that the common people of the scholarly community are hanging lamps. Later, this Buddhist ceremonial festival gradually formed a grand folk festival. The festival has gone through a process of development from the palace to the folk, from the Central Plains to the whole country.

At the time of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, the 15th day of the first month was designated as the Lantern Festival. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the sacrifice of the god Taichi was scheduled for the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar. (Taiyi: the god who dominates everything in the universe). When Sima Qian created the "Taichu Calendar", the Lantern Festival was already recognized as a major festival.

Another theory is that the custom of burning lanterns on the Lantern Festival originated in Taoism's "Three Elements"; on the 15th day of the first month of the first Yuan Festival, the 15th day of the seventh month of the middle Yuan Festival, the 15th day of the tenth month of the lower Yuan Festival. Supervisor of the upper, middle and lower three yuan respectively for the sky, earth, people, three officials, the heavenly officials happy, so the festival to light.

The Lantern Festival festival period and festival activities, is with the development of history and extend, expand. In terms of the length of the festival, the Han Dynasty only one day, to the Tang Dynasty has been three days, the Song Dynasty is up to five days, the Ming Dynasty is since the eighth light, until the night of the first month of the seventeenth before the lights, the whole ten days. With the Spring Festival, the daytime for the city, bustling, night lights, spectacular. Especially the delicate, colorful lights, making it the climax of the entertainment activities during the Spring Festival. To the Qing Dynasty, and increased the dragon dance, lion dance, running boats, stilt walkers, twisting rice-planting songs and other "hundred theater" content, just shortened the festival period of four to five days.

The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancients called the night for the "night", so the first month of the fifteenth for the Lantern Festival. The 15th day of the first month is the first full moon of the year, but also the beginning of the year, the night of the earth back to spring, people celebrate this, but also to celebrate the continuation of the New Year. The Lantern Festival is also known as the "on the Yuan Festival".

According to Chinese folk tradition, in this day on the night of the white moon, people have to point up ten thousand colored lanterns, to show the celebration. Going out to enjoy the moon, burning lanterns and fireworks, guessing lantern riddles, *** eating Lantern Festival, family reunion, celebrating the festival, a happy and harmonious.

The Lantern Festival is also known as the Festival of Lights, Lantern Lights custom from the Han Dynasty, to the Tang Dynasty, more prosperous light-appreciation activities, the palace, hanging lights everywhere on the street, but also to establish a tall light wheel, light building and light tree, the Tang Dynasty poet Lu Zhaolin had in the "fifteenth night to watch the lights," which describes the Lantern Festival Lanterns pomp "catching the Han suspected star, according to the building seems to be hanging moon.

This is the first time I've ever seen a lantern in the sky.

"Guess the lantern riddle", also known as "playing lantern riddles", is the Lantern Festival after the increase of an activity, appeared in the Song Dynasty. In the Southern Song Dynasty, the capital city of Lin'an every Lantern Festival to make fans, riddles of many people. At the beginning of the riddles were written on strips of paper and pasted on colorful lanterns for people to guess. Because the riddles can enlighten wisdom and interest, so the process of circulation by the popularity of all walks of life.

The folk custom of eating Lantern Festival Lantern. Lanterns made of glutinous rice, or solid, or with filling. Filling with bean paste, sugar, hawthorn, all kinds of fruit, etc., when eating boiled, fried, steamed, fried can be. At first, people called this food "floating rounds", and later called "soup dumplings" or "soup dumplings", the names "reunion

In some places, the Lantern Festival and "walking hundred diseases" custom, also known as "baked hundred diseases" "scattered hundred diseases", the participants are mostly women, they walk in pairs or go to the wall. Or cross the bridge, walking in the countryside, the purpose is to drive away diseases and disasters.

With the passage of time, the Lantern Festival activities are more and more, many local festivals added to the dragon lanterns, lions, stilt walkers, rowing dry boat twisting rice-planting songs, playing drums and other traditional folk performances. This traditional festival, which has been passed down for more than 2,000 years, is not only prevalent on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, but is also celebrated year after year in overseas Chinese settlements.

On the origin of the Lantern Festival to eat Lantern Festival, there are several interesting folk legends: China's folk have the Lantern Festival to eat Lantern Festival custom, the custom began in the Song Dynasty. Folk legend has it that the Lantern Festival originated in the Spring and Autumn period of Chu Zhao Wang. On the fifteenth day of the first month, King Zhao of Chu passed through the Yangtze River, see the surface of the river with floating objects, for a kind of white inside red sweet food. King Zhao of Chu asked Confucius, Confucius said "this floating fruit also, get the main revival of the omen". Since then, the Lantern Festival to eat Lantern has become a history. Lantern Festival and the Spring Festival rice cakes, Dragon Boat Festival dumplings, are the same holiday food. Eat the Lantern Festival symbolizes the family reunion like the full moon, sent people's good wishes for the future of life. Lanterns in the south called "dumplings", "round", "floating round", "water round", made of glutinous rice, or solid, or with filling. The fillings include bean paste, sugar, hawthorn, etc. They can be boiled, fried, steamed or deep-fried.

■ Eating Lantern Festival

The custom of eating Lantern Festival originated from when and where, folk say different. One said that the Spring and Autumn Chu Zhaowang returned to the country on the way back through the Yangtze River, see something floating in the river, white and yellow, there is a red like rouge inside the flesh, sweet taste. The people did not know what this is, King Zhao sent to ask Confucius. Confucius said, "This is also the fruit of floating pimples, and it is the omen of the Lord's revival for those who get it." Because this day is the fifteenth day of the first month, every day after this day, King Zhao ordered his men to imitate this fruit with noodles, and use hawthorn to make a red filling to cook and eat. There is also a saying that the original Lantern called dumplings, to the Han Dynasty, there is a courtesan in the palace called Lantern, do dumplings very good, since then, the world will be named after the name of the courtesan. These two legends do not see historical records, not enough to believe.

The earliest record of eating Lantern Festival Lantern in the Song Dynasty. At that time, the Lantern Festival was called "floating round", "round", "lactose Yuanzi" and "sugar". From the historical records of "Pingyuan Renewal Draft", "Years and Years", "Daming Yitongfu" and so on, Yuanxiao as the seasonal food for celebrating the Lantern Festival started from the Song Dynasty. Because the Lantern Festival must eat "round", so people use the name of the Lantern.

Lantern Festival in the Song Dynasty is very precious, Jiang Baishi poem "your guests hook curtains to see the Royal Street, the city treasures a moment to come, curtains in front of the trellis no line, not money refused to return." The "treasures" in the poem refers to the Lantern Festival.

In modern times, there are also stories related to the Lantern Festival. Yuan Shikai was not satisfied with being the president, and wanted to be the emperor, because his dream could not come true, he was worried all day long. One day, his aunt said that she wanted to eat Lantern Festival, and as soon as the words came out of her mouth, she was slapped by Yuan Shikai, because "Lantern Festival" is a homonym of "Yuan Fade", from then on, Yuan Shikai gave his subordinates an order that they were not allowed to say "Lantern Festival" again, but only "Lantern Festival". Yuan Shi then gave his men an order not to say "Lantern Festival" again, but only to say "Tangyuan". Later, someone wrote a limerick on this matter: "Poetry rounds dating back to the previous dynasty, steamed and boiled when floating on the water. Hong Xian passed a ban that year, the streets are not allowed to shout the Lantern Festival.

■ Guessing riddles

Also known as "playing lantern riddles", is an activity added after the Lantern Festival, appeared in the Song Dynasty. The Southern Song Dynasty, the capital Lin'an every Lantern Festival to make a fan, guessing the riddles of many people. At the beginning of the riddles were written on strips of paper and pasted on colorful lanterns for people to guess. Because the riddles can enlighten wisdom and interest, so the process of circulation by the popularity of all walks of life.

■ Lion Dance

Lion Dance, is China's outstanding folk art, every Lantern Festival or gathering celebrations, folk lion dance to cheer. This custom originated in the Three Kingdoms period, began to popularize the North and South Dynasties, has been more than a thousand years of history. According to legend, it was first imported from the western region, the lion is Manjushri Bodhisattva's mount, with the introduction of Buddhism into China, the lion dance activities also imported into China. The lion was a tribute brought back by Zhang Qian, sent by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, together with peacocks and other animals from the Western Regions. The lion dance technique was introduced from the Western Liang "mask play", and some people believe that the lion dance was produced in the fifth century in Liu Song's army, and later spread to the people. Both claims have their own basis, today it is difficult to judge its right and wrong.

However, during the Tang Dynasty, the Lion Dance has become a popular activity in the court, military and civil society. Tang Duan Anjie "music miscellaneous search" said: "the play has five square lions, more than ten feet high, each dressed in five colors, each lion, there are twelve people, wearing red smudged forehead, clothes painted clothes, holding a red whisk, called the lion Lang, dancing peace music." Poet Bai Juyi "Xiliang Kabuki" poem has a vivid depiction of this: "Xiliang Kabuki, Xiliang Kabuki, masked hu people fake lions. Carved wood for the head and silk for the tail, gold plated eyes and silver teeth. Fenxun sweater swinging both ears, as from the quicksand to ten thousand miles." The poem describes the lion dance at that time. In the course of more than a thousand years of development, the lion dance has formed two styles of performance in the north and south.

The northern school of lion dance is based on the performance of the "martial lion", that is, the Wei Dynasty "Rui Lion", which was authorized by Emperor Wu of the Northern Wei Dynasty. The small lion dance, the big lion dance by a pair of people, a standing lion dance head, a person bent down to dance the lion body and tail. The lion dancer is clad in a lion quilt, wearing the same color as the lion's body, green lion pants and gold claw hoof boots, people can not identify the lion dancer's body, its appearance and the real lion is very similar. The lion dancer, dressed as an ancient warrior, holds a rotating embroidered ball in his hand, and is accompanied by gongs, drums and cymbals to attract the lions. Under the guidance of the "Lion Lang", the lion performs tricks such as prancing, falling, jumping, ascending, worshipping, and other difficult maneuvers such as walking on a plum blossom pile, scurrying on a table, and stepping on a rolling ball. The southern school of lion dance to perform "Wen lion" is the main performance, the performance is concerned about the expression, there are scratching, shaking hair, licking hair and other actions, exquisite, amusing, but also more difficult to spit the ball and other skills. Southern lion to Guangdong as the center, and popular in Hong Kong, Macao, Southeast Asia, overseas Chinese.

Although the southern lion is also a two-person dance, but the lion dancers under the lantern pants, the top just draped in a piece of colorful lion dance. And the northern lion is different from the "lion Lang" head wearing a big head Buddha mask, dressed in robes, waist colorful belt, holding a sunflower fan and teasing the lion, which dances a variety of beautiful strokes, action comical fun. There are many schools of Southern Lion, Qingyuan, Yingde's "cock lion", Guangzhou, Foshan's "big head lion", high crane, Zhongshan's "duckbill lion", Dongguan's "Kirin lion", etc.

The Southern Lion is the most famous lion in China.

In addition to the different appearance of the southern lions, there are different personalities. White-bearded lion dance range is not wide, not many varieties of colors, but calm and robust, dignified and powerful, folk called "Liu Bei lion". Black-bearded red-faced lion, known as the "Guan Gong Lion", dancing brave and majestic, extraordinary temperament. Gray and white bearded lion, rugged and belligerent action, commonly known as "Zhang Fei Lion". Lion for the dignity of the beasts, the image of majestic and handsome, giving people a sense of majesty, courage. Ancient people took it as a symbol of bravery and strength, that it can drive away evil spirits and demons, blessing people and animals peace. So people gradually formed in the Lantern Festival and other major events in the custom of lion dance, in order to pray for the life of the lucky kind as expected, everything is safe.

[Edit Paragraph]○The Legend of Lantern Festival

Dongfang Shuo and the Lantern Girl

This legend is related to the custom of eating Lantern Festival: According to legend, Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty had a favorite minister named Dongfang Shuo, who was kind and funny. One day in winter, it snowed heavily for several days, and Dongfang Shuo went to the imperial garden to fold plum blossoms for Emperor Wu. When he entered the garden, he found a courtesan in tears, ready to throw herself into a well. Dongfang Shuo rushed to her rescue and asked her why she wanted to commit suicide. It turned out that the courtesan's name was Yuan Xiao (元宵), and she had two parents and a younger sister at home. Since she entered the palace, she never had the chance to meet her family. Every year to the end of the spring season, more than usual miss their families. She felt that it would be better for her to die than to be able to fulfill her filial piety in front of her parents. When Dongfang Shuo heard her story, he sympathized with her and assured her that he would try to reunite her with her family.

One day, Dongfang Shuo went out of the palace and set up a divination booth on Chang'an Street. A lot of people were eager to ask him for divination. Unexpectedly, each person's account of the request, are "the sixteenth day of the first month of the fire burning body" of the sign language. For a while, Chang'an was in a great panic. People asked for a solution to the disaster. Dongfang Shuo said, "On the evening of the 13th day of the first month, the Fire God will send a red-clothed goddess down to visit the earth, and she is the messenger who has been ordered to burn Chang'an, I will give you the copied verse, so that the present son of heaven can think of a solution." After saying this, he threw down a red post and went away. The people picked up the red post and hurriedly sent it to the palace to report to the emperor.

Emperor Wu received a look, only to see written above: "Chang'an in the robbery, fire burning Imperial Palace, fifteen days of fire, flame red night", he was shocked, and quickly invited the resourceful Oriental Shuo. Dongfang Shuo pretended to think for a moment, then said: "I heard that the fire god gentleman loves to eat dumplings, the palace Lantern is not often for you to make dumplings? On the fifteenth night, you can let the Lantern make soup dumplings. Banzai burned incense and made offerings, and ordered every family in Kyoto to make dumplings to honor the Fire Goddess. And then, you will summon your subjects to hang lanterns together on the fifteenth night, and light firecrackers and set off fireworks all over the city, as if the city is on fire, so that you can hide it from the Jade Emperor. In addition, notify the people outside the city, the fifteenth night into the city to watch the lanterns, mixed in the crowd to eliminate disasters and solve the problem". After hearing this, Emperor Wu was very happy, so he passed the order to do according to the way of Dongfang Shuo.

By the first month of the fifteenth day of Chang'an city of lights, colorful, tourists come and go, very lively. The parents of the courtesan Yuan Xiao also took her sister into the city to watch the lanterns. When they saw written "Lantern" big lantern, surprise shouted: "Lantern! When they saw the big lantern with the word "Yuanxiao" written on it, they shouted in surprise: "Yuanxiao! The Lantern, hearing the shouts, was finally reunited with his relatives at home.

Such a lively night, Chang'an City is really safe and sound. Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty was delighted, then ordered every first month of the future to do dumplings for the fire god king, the first month of the 15th as usual, the whole city hanging lights and fireworks. Because the best dumplings made by the Lantern Festival, people will call the dumplings Lantern Festival, this day is called Lantern Festival.

Another legend is that the Lantern Festival was set up by Emperor Wen of Han to commemorate the "Ping Lu"

Another legend is that the Lantern Festival was set up by Emperor Wen of Han to commemorate the "Ping Lu". After the death of Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Dynasty, Liu Ying, the son of Empress Lu, ascended the throne as Emperor Hui of the Han Dynasty. Emperor Hui was weak and indecisive, and the power gradually fell into the hands of Empress Lu. After the death of Emperor Hui of the Han Dynasty, after the death of the Emperor Lv, she took the reigns of the government to turn Liu's world into Lv's world, the old ministers in the court, Liu's clansmen are y indignant, but they are afraid of Lv's brutality and dare not speak out.

After the illness and death of Empress Lu, all of them were afraid of being harmed and ostracized. So, they secretly gathered at the home of General Lu Lu and ****planned for a rebellion in order to completely seize Liu's kingdom.

This matter spread to Liu's royal family, Qi Wang Liu Sang ears, Liu Sang to protect Liu's kingdom, decided to start a military crusade Zhu Lu and then with the founding of the veteran Zhou Bo, Chen Ping contact, designed to lift the Lu Lu, "Zhu Lu's chaos" was finally completely pacified.

After the rebellion, Liu Heng, the second son of Liu Bang, was crowned Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty. Emperor Wen was y impressed by the hard-earned peace and prosperity, so he set the 15th day of the first month of the year of the quelling of the "chaos of the Lü" as a day of fun with the people, and every house in the capital was decorated with lanterns and colors to celebrate the occasion. From then on, the fifteenth day of the first month became a folk festival celebrated by all the people - the "Lantern Festival".

[Edit Paragraph]○ Lantern Festival poems

The poem says

(Song) Jiang Baishi

Lantern Festival to see the Cailian boat, BMW car pick up falling tin;

stormy night people scattered, the lone lamp is still calling the sale of soup yuan.

Poem

(Song) Jiang Baishi

Your guests hook curtains to see the Royal Street, the city treasures a moment to

Curtains in front of the trellis no way, no money refused to return.

(Note: the treasures here refers to the Lanterns)

Folding Gui Order Lanterns

(Yuan) anonymous

Love the Lanterns three or five scenery, the moon, lights brilliant.

The moon is full of ice wheels, the lights burn the land and sea, and people step on the spring sun.

The three beautiful things can be appreciated, and the four ruthless can be hateful and difficult to grow.

I am afraid that the light is dark, people are quiet and desolate, the corner of the South Tower, the moon under the West Wing.

Bianjing Yuanxi

(Ming) Li Mengyang

Zhongshan Ruzi leaning on the new make-up, Zheng female Yan Ji excel in the field.

The moon is as frosty as the moon outside the Jinliang Bridge.

The Lantern Festival

(Ming) Tang Yin

The lanterns without the moon are not entertaining, and the moon without lanterns does not count as spring.

Spring has come to the world like jade, and the moon is like silver under the burning lamps.

The streets are full of pearl and green jade, and the songs and songs of the boiling land are like the gods of the society.

The first time I saw the movie, I saw the movie, but I didn't realize that it was a good time.

It is said that the Ma family is good at selling Lantern Festival in the wind of the test lamp.

The Lantern Festival and the Full Moon

Minnan Song

The Lantern Festival and the Full Moon, the compatriots of Fujian and Taiwan are close to each other,

Bringing the old and the young back to their hometowns, and ending the long-lasting love between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait.

What does it feel like to have tears in your eyes? The first time I saw this, it was a long time ago, and I'm not sure if it was a long time ago!

The Lantern Festival, the cooking of dumplings, the reunion of flesh and blood, full of joy,

Men and women, the old and the young, gathered around the table, the family ate the Yuan Yuan Pills together.

The blood of the cradle is hard to separate, and the leaves return to their roots.

Lantern riddles

Qingming eve (playing traditional festivals a) ---- Lantern Festival

gossip Lantern Festival (rolled up frame, playing the magazine a) ---- Night Chat

before and after the Lantern Festival (playing the Rou Shi novels a) ---- February

[edit paragraph] ○ Lantern Festival food, make

Lantern Festival of the main food is also called the Lantern Festival. In the south, it is also called "Tangyuan" or "Yuanzi". It is said that the Lantern Festival symbolizes the reunion of the family, eating Lantern Festival means a new year of family happiness, all the best.

Yuanxiao (rice glue ball) that is, "dumplings", is made of glutinous rice flour and other raw materials made of round food, the 15th day of the first month to eat Yuanxiao, "Yuanxiao" as a food, in our country also has a long history. Song Dynasty, the folk that is popular a Lantern Festival to eat novelty food. This kind of food, the earliest called "floating yuanzi" later called "Lantern", the businessman also beautifully called "Yuanbao". Lantern to sugar, rose, sesame, bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnuts, nuts, jujube paste, etc. for the filling, wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a round, meat or vegetarian, different flavors. It can be boiled in soup, deep-fried or steamed, and has the meaning of reunion. Shaanxi's dumplings are not packaged, but in the glutinous rice flour "roll" into, or cooking Division or deep-fried, hot, hot, reunion.

Lantern eating method is also a lot, can be boiled, fried, deep-fried, steamed and so on. Solid small Lantern if you add wine, sugar, cinnamon cooking, unique flavor, it is appropriate to make up for.

Southerners do "Lantern", the first glutinous rice flour and water into a skin, and then the filling "package"; northerners do "Lantern", the first filling into a uniform ball shape, placed on a dry glutinous rice pavement, and then the filling into a small ball. In the north, to make "Yuanxiao", the filling is first pinched into small, even balls, which are placed in baskets lined with dry glutinous rice flour and shaken constantly, with water added from time to time to make the filling stick to more and more glutinous rice flour until it is of the right size. The size of the "Yuanxiao" varies from as big as a walnut to as small as a soybean. There is also a technique for cooking "Yuanxiao": gently pinch. Before the pot, the hand gently pinch the "Lantern", so that it is slightly cracked, so that the cooked "Lantern", inside and outside easy to cook, soft and smooth and delicious. Boiling water. When the pot of water boils, put "Lantern", gently push away with the back of the spoon, let "Lantern" rotate a few times, it will not stick to the bottom of the pot. Cook over moderate heat. "Lantern" into the pot to cook to float, should be quickly changed to the fire, otherwise, "Lantern" constantly turning, uneven heat, cooked outside and hard inside is not delicious. Point cold water. "Lantern" into the pot, every time you open should point into the right amount of cold water, so that it seems to keep rolling non-rolling state. Open two or three times, and then cook for a while, you can fish out to eat. Cooked this way, "Lantern" soft, not hard, sweet and savory.

■ Lantern production

Lantern is made of glutinous rice flour round food, from the type of points, can be divided into two kinds of solid and with filling. Filled with sweet and salty. Sweet filling generally lard bean paste, sugar sesame, osmanthus assorted, date paste, nuts, hemp paste, almonds, white fruit, hawthorn and so on; salty filling generally have fresh meat, ham, shrimp and so on. With mustard, green onion, garlic, chives, ginger composed of vegetable filling Lantern, called "five flavors Lantern", meaning hard work, long, upward.

There are many ways to make the Lantern Festival, and there is a big difference between the south and the north. The South to do the Lantern Festival, the first glutinous rice flour with boiling water and skin, and then the filling "package"; the North to do the Lantern Festival, the first filling pinched into a uniform ball, placed in a basket with dry glutinous rice flour, constantly shaking, and from time to time to add water so that more and more glutinous rice flour filling stained until the size of the right. The size of the Lantern varies, large as walnuts, small as soybeans.

Specifically:

Meat dumplings

Ingredients: appropriate amount of glutinous rice, rice, lean minced pork, soy sauce, pepper, cooking wine, minced ginger, minced winter vegetables, chopped green onion.

Practice:

1. Mix the glutinous rice and rice, soak 1 ~ 2 days, with the mill into the cloth bag fine grinding suspension pulp, made of flour.

2. Pour a little oil in the pot, when the oil is seven mature under the minced meat fried, add soy sauce, pepper, wine, ginger, flavored with flavor after the pot on the plate.

3. After the cooked minced meat is cooled, add appropriate amount of raw minced meat, minced winter vegetables, chopped green onion, mix well and put in the refrigerator to freeze, cut small pieces for the filling.

4. Knead the flour with ice water, take a small piece and flatten it, wrap it in the filling and knead it.

5. The dumplings will be cooked in a pot, the fire should not be too strong, see the dumplings floating on the surface of the water, that is, fish out.

6. In a bowl, put the right amount of soy sauce, pepper, monosodium glutamate, lard, green onions, etc., punch into the right amount of broth, will be fished out of the dumplings into the edible.

Walnut cheese dumplings

Ingredients: 150 grams of dried walnuts, 50 grams of rice, 150 grams of rice noodles, 100 grams of hemp, 50 grams of jujubes, flour, cinnamon a little.

Practice:

1. Put the sugar in a bowl, add cinnamon, hemp kernel, a little flour, and then add a little boiling water and mix well, put on the case, with a knife patted into a 1.5-point-thick slices, and then cut 1.5-point-square dices, that is, into the dumpling filling.

2. Put the rice noodles into a dustpan. Dumpling filling in the funnel, soaked in cool water, poured into the dustpan, shaking with both hands, so that the dumpling filling full of rice noodles, 3 times in a row, that is, into the dumplings. Down into the pot to cook for about 10 minutes, float up that is cooked.

3. Walnuts with boiling water twice, peel the skin and chopped, small jujube wash, soak in cool water for 12 hours.

4. Put the rice, walnuts, jujube meat in a bowl, add 200 grams of water and mix well, with a small mill once, become a fine paste.

5. Net spoon release water, into the sugar, on the fire to see open, skimmed off the foam, quickly walnut pulp into the, stirred into a porridge-like, until cooked, served in a bowl, will be boiled dumplings fished into the finished.

Orange soup small dumplings

Ingredients: 2500 grams of glutinous rice flour, 750 grams of sugar, 150 grams of cooked flour, 50 grams of lard, 25 grams of melon seeds, 25 grams of walnuts, 25 grams of sesame seeds, 3 oranges, green and red silk, a little bit of spice.

Practice:

1. 100 grams of cooked flour, 500 grams of sugar and lard, melon seeds kernels, walnuts, sesame seeds, etc. Mixed well, will be 50 grams of cooked flour batter into the paste, rolled into a filling, cut into corn kernels of the large small square dices.

2. Put some glutinous rice flour in the basket, put the water-soaked filling pieces into the rolling, rolled into a medium-sized dumplings. Cut the orange into two petals and squeeze out the juice.

3. When the water boils, pour in the dumplings, dumplings float to the surface, and then add sugar and orange juice, until the sugar dissolves into the bowl.

Bashi small dumplings

Ingredients: 300 grams of glutinous rice flour, 300 grams of sugar, 25 grams of lard, green and red silk, cinnamon, melon seeds, sesame seeds, 50 grams of sugar thinning, 50 grams of cooked noodles, 750 grams of peanut oil (consumed 100 grams).

Method:

1. Chopped green and red silk with lard, 150 grams of sugar, cinnamon, cooked noodles, sugar, melon seeds and other ingredients and crystal filling.

2. Smash and good filling into a 3 mm thick slice, cut into 3 mm square ding, dipped in water and put people with glutinous rice flour with a dustpan shaking, repeated 3 times that is into the raw dumplings.

3. Pour peanut oil in the frying spoon, burn to six or seven mature, down into the dumplings and chopsticks, floating with a colander, with a small spoon to shoot the opening.

4. Put the frying spoon on the fire, inject a little water, add 150 grams of sugar, stir-fry until golden brown when the dumplings, off the fire upside down, sprinkled with green and red threads, sesame seeds and so on that is complete.

Wine pot dumplings

Ingredients: 2500 grams of glutinous rice flour, 1000 grams of sugar, 150 grams of cooked flour, 50 grams of lard, 15 grams of walnuts, 25 grams of peanuts, 25 grams of sesame, 25 grams of melon strips, green and red silk, hanging flower sauce, a little flavor.

Practice:

1. 500 grams of sugar with 100 grams of cooked flour, plus green and red silk, sesame, peanut kernels, walnut kernels, cinnamon sauce, lard, flavorings, etc., and another 50 grams of flour into a paste, poured together and rolled into a filling, patted tightly into a block, and then cut into small squares of cubic dice.

2. Put some glutinous rice noodles in the basket, cut the small square ding into the water to soak a little bit, placed in the basket on the glutinous rice noodles, shaking by hand, so that the glutinous rice noodles hanging in the leftover stuffing, many times in a row, shaking into the size of a glass ball of dumplings.

3. When the pot of water boiled, the dumplings under the pot, dumplings float, add sugar, even soup together into the wine pot has been prepared boiled wine, the wine pot end on the table, and then the pot of wine lit.

■ In addition to boiled food, there are a variety of ways to eat:

Lantern eating method is also a lot, can be boiled, fried, deep-fried, steamed and so on. Solid small Lantern if you add wine, sugar, cinnamon cooking, unique flavor, it is suitable for the Zizhixian.

Deep-fried "Lantern" If the raw "Lantern", "Lantern" can be glued to the first egg white, and then put into the pot to fry. This fried "Lantern" has egg flavor. Frying should be constantly turning, so as not to fry impermeable uneven. Deep-frying "Lantern", sometimes "Lantern" in the frying pan suddenly burst splash injury phenomenon. If the "Lantern" in the "Lantern" before the pot with a needle in the "Lantern" on the two small pinhole, you can prevent this phenomenon. In addition, the frying should use a small fire to warm oil, so that the fried "Lantern" sweet and savory, crisp skin in the glutinous.

Plucked "Lantern" will be "Lantern" fried spare. Slip the bottom of the pot with cooking oil, put sugar and the right amount of water, simmering sugar thin, when the sugar thin bubbles yellow, put the fried "Lantern", and sugar thin stir, quickly out of the pot, eat while hot, just like the gold beads entangled silk, interesting.

Dress "Lantern" Sesame seeds fried and crushed, into the boiling thick sugar paste in the pot, and then poured into the fried "Lantern", rolled sticky uniform, out of the pot on the plate, one by one, each set apart, non-stick, cold food, hot food are suitable.

Steaming "Lantern" will be "Lantern" into a layer of oiled wanton plate or metal plate, into the pot steamed, take out and sprinkle with sugar can be. It is easy to make and is very tasty.

Roasted "Lanterns" will be "Lanterns" into a metal plate smeared with oil, with the plate into the oven, baked until the color is golden, cooked through, take out the plate, with sugar to eat, taste fragrant and sweet.

[edit]○Other novelty varieties of Lanterns

Snow in the charcoal

The so-called snow is the snow-white outer layer of the dumplings, and the charcoal is the inner layer of charcoal roasted chocolate filling, the dumplings are more flavored, so it is with a refreshing rose soup base, a mouthful of soup, a mouthful of soup dumplings, it is the best way to eat it Oh.

Rose Coconut Dew Soup Dumplings

Rose Coconut Dew Soup Dumplings are already pleasing to the eye just by looking at their appearance, but when you take a bite, you will feel like you are dipping your lips in a rose bath. Coconut milk, fresh milk and the fragrance of roses make it moist and warm, and with the addition of sesame seed dumplings that are also useful in beautifying your face, this is the best thing for girls to taste~~~~

Banana Milk Dumplings

The Milk King Pumpkin is usually used as the skin of pumpkin, but this one is filled with pumpkin and dipped in sesame seeds to make it more flavorful. The dumplings are placed in osmanthus sugar water, fragrant outside and sweet inside, to ensure that this Lantern Festival will be sweet Oh ~ ~ ~ ~

heart dumplings

heart dumplings can be said to be the most richly layered dumplings, is the Yunnan people must eat the New Year's morning meal, filling ham, peanut paste and sun-dried tangerine peels in Yunnan, the most exciting is the base of the soup, with wild roses in Yunnan, sun-dried with slices of sugar and yellow wine into the cave for half a year to ferment. The best part is the soup base, which is made of wild Yunnan roses, dried in the sun and fermented in a cave with sugar and yellow wine for half a year or more. It is best to cut the dumplings open when eating them, so that the aroma of peanuts and tangerine peels can blend with the rose broth, which has a refreshing wine aroma. The simultaneous impact of several flavors on the taste buds is really extraordinary~~

3-color dumplings

The 3-color dumplings are made with strawberries, carrot juice and green tea put into the skin of the dumplings or dumplings in the soup. The carrot juice acacia dumplings are very popular when eaten with almond juice, green bean paste, and other kinds of sweeteners.

[edit]○Taboos of Lanterns

Calories: Lanterns contain a lot of fat and sugar, so the calories are very high, for overweight or hyperlipidemia, hypertension, diabetes, should not be excessive intake. For gout patients, high-fat food will affect the excretion of uric acid, increasing the possibility of gout. The four sesame seeds of the snacks are equal to the calories of a bowl of rice, and the small stuffed dumplings are equal to the calories of a bowl of rice, so you can eat the stuffed dumplings to reduce the calorie intake, or to walk briskly for an hour to consume these calories.

Skin: Whether it's the Northern Lantern or the Southern Tangyuan, the skin is made of glutinous rice flour. Glutinous rice contains more starch, high viscosity, not easy to digest, gastrointestinal function is not good, the elderly, children, in the consumption of dumplings should pay special attention, so as not to cause indigestion or swallowing obstacles.

Filling: There are many kinds of filling for the Lantern, sweet and savory.

Whether sweet or salty filling, the fat content is very high, in order to achieve delicious, often use lard. In addition, sweet filling will often make diabetics blood sugar out of control. Peanuts, sesame seeds, bean paste and other high phosphorus content, will aggravate the condition of patients with kidney disease, should pay special attention.

Soup sweet filling Lantern itself has a sweet flavor, so the soup does not need to add sugar to reduce calorie intake. If there is no filling small dumplings, sweet soup can be replaced by cinnamon red date soup or cinnamon ginger soup, in addition to reducing the sugar, but also have the effect of complementary body cold.

The salty dumplings can put small shrimp and vegetables, more calcium and fiber supplement. However, it should be noted that the soup should not put too much fat or seasoning.

■ ■ Not to eat snacks group:

Diabetic patients: snacks high sugar content, patients if greedy mouth, can make the blood sugar rise sharply, not only will aggravate the condition, but also can induce ketoacidosis.

Ulcer disease patients: eating snacks can promote gastric acid secretion increase, aggravate the stimulation of the ulcer surface, serious cases can induce gastric hemorrhage, gastric perforation and so on.

Gastrointestinal dyspepsia: Lanterns are made of glutinous rice noodles, sticky, not easy to digest, after eating can lead to stomach pain, bloating, belching, acid reflux and even diarrhea.

Acute gastroenteritis patients patients: the gastrointestinal tract is in a state of congestion, edema, the patient should eat rice soup, lotus root powder and other easily digestible food, eat snacks will aggravate the burden on the gastrointestinal tract.

Patients with high fever: the patient's gastrointestinal tract is in a state of relative inhibition during fever, so they should eat easy-to-digest foods such as fluids, otherwise they will aggravate the condition.

Hypertension, high blood pressure, high blood fat and gout patients: these patients to eat snacks have the risk of aggravating the condition, so eat less is appropriate.

Long-standing patients at this time: appetite has improved, but the digestive function is still weak, excessive consumption of snacks is not conducive to recovery.

The old and frail: these people have reduced digestive function, tooth loss, especially the elderly swallowing reflexes are more sluggish, may be caused by rapid swallowing and Lanxiao stuck throat, resulting in breathing difficulties, and even suffocation death.

Infants and young children have weak digestive functions, swallowing reflexes are not yet well developed, so you can't eat the whole thing when eating snacks, to be divided into a quarter to eat, eat a mouth and then eat the second mouth. Be sure to chew and swallow slowly to prevent accidents.