What does Mariko mean?

Zi Yuan is a kind of round food that can be simply processed and eaten, also called glutinous rice balls. Meatballs made of lean meat that are often eaten in southern China before the Spring Festival are called "meatballs" or meatballs.

Wuzhong Shangyuan Festival-Related Records of Mariko

On the last January Day, Wuzhong was "brightly lit, full of streets, singing and dancing everywhere. It's really a beautiful night scene, with a thousand floors in the middle of the month. " The holiday products in Wudi are "Zi Yuan" and "Oil". Powder noodles are pills, and the book says "Zi Yuan". Wrap the stuffing with flour and yeast, make a cake and fry it in oil, which is called "oil". Every family uses this festival to worship the gods and enjoy the first place. There is a sentence in Zhou Bida's poem: "The three seasons are reunited, and Wan Li is the same."

Zi Yuan, also called Tangyuan, is a favorite food.

There are many flavors of jiaozi in the market, including sesame stuffing, bean paste stuffing and pork stuffing. After the taste reform, new chocolate stuffing and matcha stuffing appeared. There is also a kind of jiaozi without stuffing, which people usually like as a dessert. The common jiaozi is made of wine, sprinkled with osmanthus, and tastes sweet and refreshing.

Shaoyang's pig blood mariko, called mariko for short. Also known as blood cake, pig blood pill, tofu pill and tofu pill. It is a unique traditional food in Shaoyang, which began in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty and was passed down from generation to generation. It has a history of hundreds of years.

The main raw material of Shaoyang pig blood jiaozi is tofu. First, filter the water in the tofu with gauze, then crush the tofu, then cut the fresh pork into diced meat or strips, and mix in proper amount of pig blood, salt, Chili powder, spiced powder and a little seasoning such as sesame oil, sesame oil, monosodium glutamate and sesame seeds.

After stirring evenly, make it into oval balls the size of steamed bread, put it in the sun for a few days, and then hang it on the firewood stove to let the fireworks smoke dry thoroughly. The longer the smoking time, the stronger the wax flavor.