What food does Hanchuan eat for the Lantern Festival?

Tuanzi is a famous snack in the Yangtze River valley. Jiaozi usually refers to a kind of food steamed with glutinous rice stuffing, which tastes waxy, slippery, soft and delicious, including white jiaozi and green jiaozi. Youth jiaozi is a must for Qingming every year.

Tuanzi is a famous snack in the Yangtze River valley. Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other provinces have the custom of eating jiaozi. There are two kinds of jiaozi: white jiaozi and green jiaozi. Jiaozi is spherical, which means round and round. It is similar to the Lantern Festival in the north, but it is also bigger than the Lantern Festival, as big as an apple. An adult with a large appetite will be round after eating three bellies.

Jiaozi is rich in fillings: meat, carrots, dried bean curd, pickled mustard tuber, garlic, ginger, leeks, lotus roots, dried plums, peppers ... cut into small pieces, stir-fry in a pot after seasoning, and add seasonings such as salt. After cooling, jiaozi is wrapped with drained glutinous rice pulp.

Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Little Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival, is one of the traditional festivals in China on the 15th day of the first lunar month. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called "night". The fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night in a year, so it is called "Lantern Festival". According to the Taoist "Sanyuan Festival", the fifteenth day of the first month is also called "Shangyuan Festival". Since ancient times, the custom of Lantern Festival has been based on the warm and festive custom of watching lanterns.