Traditional Cuisines of Lantern Festival

The traditional food of Lantern Festival includes Yuanxiao, dumplings, lettuce, Yuanxiao tea and oil tea.

1. Lantern?

"The 15th day of the first month of the Lantern Festival," the Lantern Festival is of course essential to eat. However, Yuanxiao is a northern food, it is a good filling cut into pieces, dipped in water, and rolled out into a container with glutinous rice flour, which is somewhat different from the southern soup dumplings.?

2. Tangyuan?

Southern soup dumplings, northern Lantern. Unlike the north, southerners eat soup dumplings for the Lantern Festival, symbolizing reunion. The practice of dumplings is simpler than the Lantern, similar to the dumplings, is to add water and glutinous rice flour into a ball, leave it for 1 hour, pull a small ball of dough and pinch it into a slice, wrapped into the filling and rolled round.

3, lettuce?

Cantonese people like to "steal" pick lettuce for the Lantern Festival, mixed with cakes to cook, it is said that this food represents good luck. Cantonese people's character is calm and real, the festivals also most of a good intention, usually most commonly used in the opening of new stores and other festive occasions, lettuce, is also the Lantern Festival must have festive supplies.

4, Lantern Tea?

In Shaanxi and other places there is a custom to eat the Lantern Tea, is in the hot soup noodles into a variety of vegetables and fruits, much like the ancient "Lantern Porridge". This tea increases the intake of fiber, minerals and vitamins, and is not as greasy as ordinary snacks, for the holiday season due to eat more animal food and the presentation of the acidic body has a neutralizing effect, but also to make the snacks more comprehensive nutrition.

5, oil tea?

The night of the Lantern Festival food, flatland said "fifteen flat, sixteen round", one day to eat dumplings, one day to eat the Lantern Festival; mountainous areas are "fifteen oil tea, sixteen pinch flat food". It is the so-called "ten miles of different customs". Tea is to use chopsticks to stir the tea noodles in the pot to make oil tea, also known as noodle tea.