What's the difference between glutinous rice balls and Yuanxiao? Why do southerners eat jiaozi and northerners eat Yuanxiao? What's the difference?

1, the production method is different.

2, the appearance is different. The appearance of Yuanxiao is floating powder, and the appearance of glutinous rice balls is smooth;

3, the taste is different. Yuanxiao is full of chewing, and jiaozi is soft and glutinous;

4. The soup is different.

"The North" rolls "Yuanxiao, and the South" wraps "jiaozi. In the north, stuffing is cut first, and then glutinous rice flour is screened into spherical Yuanxiao. In the south, like jiaozi, glutinous rice flour is made into dough and then stuffed. These are two foods with different practices and tastes. The 15th day of the first month is the Lantern Festival, also called "Shangyuan Festival", which is a traditional festival in China. As the last climax of the Spring Festival, all the streets and alleys will be decorated with lanterns, enjoying lanterns, solve riddles on the lanterns, watching fireworks and eating Yuanxiao ".

Yuanxiao is one of the traditional snacks in China, which belongs to the eating custom of Lantern Festival. The practice of Yuanxiao is mainly stuffing, which is mixed first, then spread into large round pieces, dried and cut into squares smaller than table tennis. Then put the stuffing into a machine like a big sieve, pour the rice flour on it and "sieve" it. As the fillings collide with each other, the rice sticks to the surface of the fillings and becomes spherical, which becomes Yuanxiao. The North "rolls" Yuanxiao and the South "wraps" Tangyuan, which are two foods with different practices and tastes.

When and where the custom of eating Yuanxiao originated, people have different opinions. It is said that at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, King Zhao and Chu passed the Yangtze River on his way back from the countryside and saw something floating on the river, which was white and yellow, and there was a kind of rouge-red pulp in it, which was very sweet. People didn't know what it was, so Zhao Haoqi sent someone to ask Confucius. Confucius said, "This duckweed fruit is also a sign of the master's revival."

Because this day is the fifteenth day of the first month, on this day in the future, Zhao Haoqi ordered his men to imitate this fruit with flour and cook it with red stuffing made of hawthorn. There is also a saying that Yuanxiao was originally called Tangyuan. When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, there was a maid-in-waiting named Yuanxiao, who was very good at making dumplings. Since then, the world has been named after this maid-in-waiting. These two legends are not recorded in historical materials, so they are not credible.

Tangyuan, also known as Yuanxiao, Tangtuan and Piao Zi Yuan, is one of the representatives of traditional snacks in China, and it is a spherical food made of glutinous rice flour. There are usually fillings, which are cooked and eaten with soup. At the same time, it is also the most distinctive food of the Lantern Festival with a long history.

Tangyuan is sweet, and there is no need to add sugar to the soup to reduce calorie intake; If it is a small dumpling without stuffing, the soup can be replaced by osmanthus, liqueur, scented tea, longan red date soup and longan ginger soup, which can play a role in tonifying the body and dispelling cold; When making salty dumplings, you can add some vegetables to increase the cellulose.

I can't help but want to take a big bite in the face of the hot and fragrant jiaozi. All ages should pay special attention. Remember to eat jiaozi slowly so as not to choke my throat or trachea. Because glutinous rice balls contain a lot of "sugar" and sesame seeds, and fresh meat and peanuts contain "high fat" and "high calories", you must eat them in small quantities, not too much at once.