What custom food do you eat on the Lantern Festival?

Eat glutinous rice balls, Yuanxiao, oil tea, jiaozi and jujube cakes during the Lantern Festival.

Tangyuan 1

On the Lantern Festival, every household in the south will eat glutinous rice balls, also called "jiaozi" or "Zongzi". As early as the Northern Song Dynasty, glutinous rice was used as the main raw material, and the fillings were mostly sweet, sticky and round.

In addition, the name of glutinous rice balls is similar to the pronunciation of "reunion", which means reunion. Therefore, eating glutinous rice balls on the Lantern Festival has a good intention of family reunion.

2. Lantern Festival

Yuanxiao is an indispensable food on the fifteenth day of the first month in the north, and its round appearance is endowed with the meaning of family reunion. Although the shapes of Yuanxiao and Tangyuan are similar, the prepared stuffing is cut into pieces, dipped in water, and shaken in a container filled with glutinous rice flour until the stuffing is completely pulverized and rolled into a ball, and the skin is dry and the meat is soft and chewy.

3. Camellia oleifera

Eating Camellia oleifera in Lantern Festival is a folk custom of Dong and Yao in Guangxi, Guizhou and Hunan. Not the "tea" we brewed, but the "noodle tea" fried in advance. The fried tea pollen is boiled into a paste, which is warm and delicious. Together with the ground sesame and peanuts, it means a bumper harvest and happiness in the coming year.

4. jiaozi

Northerners have the habit of eating jiaozi on holidays. The Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month is the first traditional festival after the Spring Festival, so jiaozi is also an indispensable food. People in Henan have the custom of "fifteen flats and sixteen yuan". Jiaozi is shaped like an ingot, with stuffing and skin, and the stuffing used is also very particular. Eating jiaozi is not only an emotional sustenance, but also a symbol of getting rich.

5, jujube cake

People in western Henan like to eat jujube cakes on the Lantern Festival. In people's minds, eating jujube cakes during the Lantern Festival means prosperity and sweetness in the future. Jujube cake is made of flour, jujube paste and brown sugar. It is said that it turned out to be the imperial cake of the Qing Dynasty, which has been passed down to this day for about 200 years.