The Lantern Festival is also called Tangyuan, why the Lantern Festival is not called Tangyuan Festival

The fifteenth day of the first month. The Lantern Festival.

English flip Lantern Festival, it seems that the Lantern Festival has become a lantern festival. Browsing through domestic websites, you can see news and pictures of night markets with lanterns everywhere, which are very beautiful and make me more homesick for my hometown.

In the heart of the country, in addition to the lively and festive Lantern Festival, the Lantern Festival is naturally the protagonist of the Lantern Festival. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to get a good deal on a new product, but I'm sure you're going to be able to get a good deal on a new product, and I'm sure you're going to be able to get a good deal on a new product, and I'm sure you're going to be able to get a good deal on a new product. Although the family is how to eat, but the round Lanterns in the end to this new year drew a conclusion, like it or not, more or less also eat a few mean.

When drinking afternoon tea, Wen too in the kitchen to let the black M with her a piece of the group made dumplings also baked bean paste cake. There were dozens of people, and only a few of them in each person's mouth, but everyone still ate them with gusto. We've been through this festival, after all! (also strange oh, are almost the same practice and content, why it should be called Lantern Festival and not called Tangyuan Festival?

Thinking about it, after this night, this Spring Festival is also finished. In addition to the normal Sunday rest, these days are all busy working, and did not bother to think about it in the end how to live, live or not to taste. 23 years for the first time outside the New Year's Eve also did not because of the time and space change and I was worried about years ago when the holiday lost. The year is not a year, the day do not live a light, this what the flavor has!

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With lamps and no moon is not entertaining, with moon and no lamps is not spring. The lights and the moon, this Lantern Festival night I have no way to find. At the moment, the factory is still brightly lit, and because there is no moon, the surrounding area is also dark. But in my heart, tonight is a night of colorful lights and moonlight.

Difference between Lantern Festival and Tangyuan Festival

Many people think that there is no difference between the two, but just called them differently

So why is the Lantern Festival not called Tangyuan Festival?

Yuanxiao and soup dumplings are both glutinous rice flour products with different flavors of fillings in the middle, and are made differently due to climate differences between the north and south. Lanterns are generally only vegetarian solid sweet filling, the filling is cut into small pieces, dipped in water, in a colander full of glutinous rice flour roll, while rolling and sprinkling water, so that it is naturally coated with glutinous rice flour rolled into a round ball, dumplings are made with very fine dumpling powder dough package filling (fillings are vegetarian and non-vegetarian). When eaten, they are usually boiled in water, and the soup is clearer after the dumplings are boiled, while the soup is thicker after the Lanterns are boiled, so drinking the soup is like drinking congee with glutinous rice noodles. Because of the different processes, dumplings do not mess soup when boiled, skin surface lubrication, filling fluidity is good; and Lantern easy to mess soup, but the skin surface is fluffy, can be deep-fried, plucked, dressed, steamed, baked and other edible methods.

Yuanxiao and dumplings are processed differently, the taste is not the same. Lantern is put a good filling after hand shaking system, the use of glutinous rice flour is the glutinous rice soak and then ground with stone mills over the barrow, because the use of wet powder, so "over the barrow" when the sieve can only be up to 80 mesh, relatively coarse, and the filling must be hard to add a variety of fruits, so eat up the "bite! ", fruit and rice aroma is rich. In contrast, the dumplings are made of water-ground dry powder after wrapping, very delicate, glutinous rice flour can pass through a 200-point fine sieve, wrapping can be put into more grease, filling will not appear large particles of fruit, which is characterized by a softer, more slippery and delicate texture, frozen packages can be eaten throughout the year.

A while ago, here appeared north and south of the war, I looked at, think this is not good, so a northerner's identity, said a few words to the southerners, that post is in the spirit of reconciliation of contradictions to promote unity to say. The result is still attracted a quarrel, finally was locked post. I do not have anything against, after all, zebra bamboo in the promotion of unity of the original intention, prohibit this kind of topic, can also be understood. However, I later found that many posts have appeared more serious than my post in the quarrel, but did not lock the post, I think this is a bit unfair. So I'd like to see my thread unlocked as well.

The intent of my post is different from the last one, last time it was to promote unity, of course this time it is also to promote unity and understanding, but the main purpose is not to do that, it is to express my dissatisfaction with some southerners.

Last time, it was the north and the south that were at loggerheads, and both sides were at fault. But this time I saw a survey of what southerners eat at Chinese New Year, and the post was full of southerners slandering the north. This can be said to be no responsibility of the North. Because it's just about food. But some Southerners had to bring the topic to dumplings, and then to the North and the Northerners, and attacked them. I don't think there's any need to show any mercy to such southerners.

I didn't read the whole thread, but basically a lot of southerners were slandering dumplings, and a lot of northerners were basically explaining them.

The main thing many Southerners say is that dumplings are so bad that Northerners actually eat them on New Year's. I think it's ridiculous. I think it's ridiculous. What are you trying to say? You want to say that the northern people are poor? In addition to dumplings can not afford to eat? Well, I don't think anyone would believe that.

I've seen some Northerners explaining that dumplings are actually very good. I'd say there's no need to explain! Because the essence of the problem is not whether the dumplings are delicious or not. We don't eat dumplings because they are delicious. If the dumplings aren't good, do we stop eating them at Chinese New Year? I don't think many people in the north would do that.

To put it bluntly, what does it have to do with whether or not the dumplings are delicious? That's just our custom. It's been passed down from generation to generation. We eat dumplings to show our respect for our traditions and our ancestors. It's a way of recognizing our own culture. So how vulgar and disgusting is it to make this question about whether or not dumplings are delicious. And the person who said that is quite self-righteous.

In fact, aren't dumplings, which are eaten in many parts of the South, a Northern food? Soup dumplings are also eaten in the north, and they originated in the north. But it seems that the north generally called the dumplings for the Lantern Festival. It's the food we eat on the Lantern Festival. It is also a custom. The Lantern Festival is called the Lantern Festival, not called the Tangyuan Festival, more can see no matter the Lantern and Lantern Festival are more northern characteristics.

The Spring Festival, dumplings, and the Lantern Festival all belong to China. There should be no distinction between North and South. It's a tradition that we all share. But the southerners want to make a clear distinction. As a result, it turns out that all these things are from the North.

I understand that many Southerners feel uncomfortable and lost when they see the strength of Northern culture. But to the point of hysteria? As for the crazy attacks on the North and its culture? I've rarely seen a Northern person attack the South. It's always the Southerners who start it, and we respond. However, the denigration and contempt that some Southerners have for Northern culture shows not only their low level, but also their incompetence. They have nothing else to do.

I admit, the current Chinese culture can be said to be basically based on the northern culture. Most of the movies, TV shows, songs, Mandarin, and so on, have a distinctly northern flavor. But is this the result of the domineering and unreasonable behavior of the northerners? No, there are historical factors. The north has been the center of Chinese politics and culture since ancient times, shouldn't this factor not be taken into account?

But I think the biggest reason is that the northern culture has a more popular base. China is a unified multi-ethnic country. To be honest, compared to many regions. We can say that there is no ethnic conflict. The relationship between the North and the South is not even ethnic, it's intra-Han. So if China wants to harmonize this relationship, shouldn't it take the minority to follow the majority? Of course, China and Japan can't do this, the Japanese won't do it, because why should the Japanese accept what you Chinese approve of. But the relationship between the North and the South is different from the relationship between the Chinese and the Japanese. If China needs to standardize something across the country, shouldn't it respect the customs of the majority of Chinese people. Mandarin, for example, is based on a northern dialect. That's because there are more speakers in the north. Similarly, dumplings, the Spring Festival Gala, and many other things, are based on this reason. It's because the northern culture has a large popular area and a large population. So it's not fair that northern culture is stronger.

The South is a concept relative to the North, but the South is not exactly the same as the North. The North can be considered a basic unity. The main customs and traditions of the North are similar, and the dialects are close to each other. It's a complete culture. And the South? It's simply fragmented. Even though they're both from the South, they don't have much in common. Hunan and Fujian, Shanghai and Guangdong, Sichuan and Zhejiang? So it's impossible to compare the popularity of any culture or custom in the South with that in the North. So according to the principle of majority rule, what is wrong with the popularity of northern culture?

Southern people may be uncomfortable again, want to say, then why should all be the same, the north is the north, the south is the south is not on the line. Of course, now in fact not everything into the same right. A lot of southern areas, keep your own habits, speak your own dialect, the North said what? Why do you have to criticize our dumplings? There may be Southerners who are even more extreme and think that Mandarin shouldn't even exist. Then I have nothing to say. By that logic, Qin Shi Huang shouldn't have standardized weights and measures. China shouldn't even be unified. If that's the case, there's nothing more to talk about.

And then there are the southerners who say, without foundation, that the northerners have a faulty bloodline, that their culture is barbaric, and that the south is the rightful Chinese culture, and so on and so forth. I don't think there's much point in debating. Of course, if we want to debate, we need to open another post to talk about it. I have a lot of arguments to give. But this is not the topic now, so I don't want to talk about it. I just want to say that the Chinese nation originated from the Yellow River Basin, Chinese culture also comes from the Yellow River Basin, and the political and cultural center of China has been in the north since ancient times. These things are written in the history textbooks, is recognized by the state. It is also well documented. However, a third-rate article that accuses the northern culture of not being Chinese culture is probably just a bit of online claptrap. So there is no need to refute it.

But I don't want to conclude that the northern culture is more orthodox nowadays. In fact, both the southern and northern cultures are not ancient Chinese cultures, but they are both derived from ancient Chinese culture, with their own development. For example, if two people, both of whom are their father's sons, look different from their father, what is orthodox? This is a meaningless proposition. Cultural development and progress, if Chinese culture and ancient times, the same, unchanged for thousands of years, that China is to be the end of the country it. That's why it's good for culture to evolve and change. It's pointless to argue about who is the authentic ancient Chinese culture. Nowadays, since the population in the northern part of the country is much larger than in other parts of the country, it is normal that the northern culture is more popular.

At the end of the day, we all just focus on the differences in culture and customs between the North and the South, and feel that there are big differences. But apart from the subtle differences, there are many more similarities. Southern culture or northern culture, it is all Chinese culture. Differences are secondary, similarities are primary

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