What is Tangyuan

Soup dumplings, also known as "soup dumplings" and "floating yuanzi", are one of the representatives of traditional Han Chinese snacks.

According to legend, soup dumplings originated in the Song Dynasty. At that time, a novelty food emerged in Mingzhou, that is, with black sesame seeds, lard as filling, adding a little sugar, the outside of the glutinous rice flour rolled into a circle, after cooking, eat sweet and soft, with a long aftertaste.

At the same time, soup dumplings symbolize the reunion of the family, eating soup dumplings also means that in the new year, the family is happy, reunion, so it is the first month of the 15th Lantern Festival essential food.

Eating soup dumplings is a traditional Han Chinese custom, especially prevalent in Jiangnan. There is a folk saying that "a year older after eating dumplings".

Yuanxiao practice:

Northern Yuanxiao, is based on the filling, Jiangmai flour as the facade of the production process.

The process is simple and easy to learn, first mix the filling, and evenly spread into a large round sheet, cooled and then cut into cubic pieces larger than the size of a ping-pong ball. Then put the filling into a dustpan, pour on the right amount of rice flour, shaking in the "sieve" up.

As the fillings hit each other and turn into balls, the jiangmi also gets on the surface of the fillings to form the lanterns. Made into the snacks Jiangmi flour layer is very thin, the surface is dry, cooked in the pot Jiangmi flour to absorb the water to become paste.