What to eat on the 15th day of the first month?

1, dumplings

Lantern Festival, southerners eat dumplings, mainly to pray for the whole family reunion, including sesame seeds, walnuts, peanuts, plus vegetable oil, the nutritional value of the "higher level". Boiled dumplings are the easiest way to do this, and actually the healthiest way to eat them.

2, Lantern

Lantern Festival, the northern people to eat Lantern. When it comes to Lantern Festival, many people think that dumplings are Lantern Festival. In fact, despite the small difference in raw materials, appearance, dumplings and dumplings are actually two things. The most essential difference lies in the production process.

3, lettuce

Cantonese people over the Lantern Festival like to "steal" pick lettuce, mixed with cakes to cook, it is said that this food represents good luck. Cantonese people's character is calm and real, the festivities are also the most figure a good intention, usually most commonly used in the opening of new stores and other festive occasions of lettuce, is also the Lantern Festival must have festive supplies. Often become a common vegetable on the dinner table in the South lettuce, the name and "wealth" resonance, so it is also seen as a symbol of wealth and good luck of the festive things.

4, Lantern Tea

In Shaanxi and other places have eaten Lantern Tea custom, that is, in the hot soup noodles into a variety of vegetables and fruits, much like the ancient "Lantern Porridge".

5, oil tea

The night of the Lantern Festival food, flatland said "fifteen flat, sixteen round", one day to eat dumplings, one day to eat the Lantern Festival; mountainous areas is "fifteen oil tea, sixteen pinch flat food". It is the so-called "ten miles of different customs". Playing tea is to use chopsticks to stir the tea surface in the pot to make oil tea is also said to be the face of the tea.

6, oil hammer

The Lantern Festival food, in the North and South Dynasties, poured with gravy of rice porridge or bean porridge. But this food is mainly used for rituals, not yet a holiday food. In the Tang Dynasty, Zheng Wangzhi's "Catering Records" recorded: "Bianzhong festival food, on the Yuan oil hammer." The method of making oil hammer, according to "Taiping Guangji" cited in "Lu's Miscellany" in a "Shangshi food order" records, similar to the later generation of fried dumplings. Some people also called it "oil painting pearl".

7, dumplings

New Year's Eve is here, the north has the habit of eating dumplings, Henan people have "fifteen flat, sixteen round" Lantern Festival customs, traditions, so the first month of the fifteenth should eat dumplings. Dumplings are a long history of folk food, popular with the people, folk have "delicious but dumplings" proverb.