Characteristic activities of Lantern Festival
1, flower viewing lamp
Watching lanterns is a pleasure for ordinary people to celebrate the Lantern Festival, and it is also an activity that is still widely circulated. There are many sayings about the origin of the Lantern Festival, and one of the myths and legends is very interesting.
2. Solve the riddle on the lantern
Solve riddles on the lanterns is one of the classic folk activities of Lantern Festival, and it is also a unique way of holiday entertainment in China. Lantern riddles originated from court scholars in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. In order to show their talents and entertain themselves, they made a "literary riddle". They are pushing wine and reciting poems and riddles over and over again, which is very interesting.
3, lion dance
Lion dance, also known as "lion dance", "lion dance lantern" and "lion dance", is often performed in festivals and festive activities. Lions are regarded as auspicious animals in China, symbolizing good luck and good luck. Therefore, in the lion dance activities, people are entrusted with the good wishes of eliminating disasters and seeking good luck.
Every place has its own Lantern Festival custom. Hanging lanterns in Shanxi, Lantern Festival in Beijing, and stealing lettuce in Guangdong. Special activities mainly include lanterns, solve riddles on the lanterns and lion dance.
What health food do you eat on Lantern Festival?
1, eat dumplings
On the Lantern Festival, southerners eat glutinous rice balls mainly to pray for the whole family to be round and round. The glutinous rice used to make glutinous rice balls is flat in nature and sweet in taste, and has the functions of tonifying deficiency, regulating blood, invigorating spleen and appetizing, benefiting qi and stopping diarrhea, warming middle warmer, promoting fluid production and moistening dryness. In addition, the conventional fillings of various glutinous rice balls are mainly fruits and dried fruits, including sesame seeds, walnuts and peanuts, and vegetable oil has a "higher" nutritional value. Boiling jiaozi in water is the easiest way and the healthiest way to eat it.
Step 2 Eat jiaozi
On the Lantern Festival, southerners like to eat jiaozi, while northerners have the habit of eating jiaozi, such as Henan. So jiaozi is also a kind of food that Yuanxiao often eats. Jiaozi is a folk food with a long history in China, which is deeply loved by ordinary people. Of course, jiaozi is not the only food for the Lantern Festival.
Step 3 eat jujube cake
People in western Henan like to eat jujube cakes on the Lantern Festival, which means good luck. Jujube cake was originally the imperial cake of Qing Dynasty. It is sweet and fragrant, and contains vitamin C, protein, calcium, iron, vitamins and other nutrients, which can not only replenish the spleen and stomach, but also benefit qi and promote fluid production. It also has the functions of protecting the liver, increasing muscle strength, beautifying and preventing aging.
In the collocation of glutinous rice products, we can consider more ingredients with high nutritional value, low energy and low fat, especially glutinous rice products with miscellaneous grains as the main component are often more suitable for modern people.
Take Yuanxiao as an example, because it contains glutinous rice flour, it can be eaten as a staple food; Its various fillings are rich, such as jujube paste stuffing, nut stuffing, bean paste stuffing, fresh meat stuffing and so on. Therefore, when buying Yuanxiao, we should try our best to choose different tastes and complement each other in nutrition, so as to really and effectively improve the nutritional value of food.
When making food with glutinous rice as the main raw material, in addition to the traditional eating method, you can also add fruit and vegetable juice to glutinous rice flour to make colorful Yuanxiao, which is not only attractive in color, but also more nutritious.
Matters needing attention in eating glutinous rice balls in Lantern Festival
1. Tangyuan is a refined white staple food.
Simply put, glutinous rice balls and yuanxiao are foods with glutinous rice and sugar as the main raw materials. Besides refined glutinous rice flour containing a lot of starch, the stuffing also contains a lot of sugar. Therefore, from the classification, it should be regarded as a staple food. The so-called staple food is food rich in carbohydrates, especially starch. This kind of food is made of glutinous rice, and it is very fine glutinous rice flour with very little fiber, which belongs to refined white staple food and does not belong to coarse grains.
Suggestion 1: If you eat glutinous rice balls and Yuanxiao, you must reduce the number of staple foods accordingly. Generally speaking, glutinous rice flour used for three Yuanxiao is equivalent to 1 meter of rice.
Second, the oil content of glutinous rice balls is high.
The stuffing of glutinous rice balls and Yuanxiao not only contains sugar, but also contains quite a lot of solid oil. Rice and steamed bread contain almost no fat, but glutinous rice balls are not. There is even more oil in the stuffing than sugar. Traditionally, lard is used to wrap jiaozi. In the south, lard and meat are used to make salty jiaozi, and lard and various nuts are used to make sweet jiaozi. Later, products using butter were developed, but the content of saturated fat was even higher than that of lard. In recent years, the new fashion is to replace butter and lard with vegetable cream or hydrogenated vegetable oil products, but the health effects of this product are much worse than lard and butter.
Sesame, peanuts, nuts and chocolate are all high-fat raw materials. Plus the oil mixed with stuffing, the total amount is really considerable. At present, jiaozi with big stuffing tends to replace jiaozi with small stuffing, and the solid oil in jiaozi is more than the bean paste, hawthorn and five-kernel stuffing in the north. A bite of jiaozi is almost one-third to one-half oil. Eating three glutinous rice balls is equivalent to eating 1 plate of cooking oil.
Suggestion 2: If you eat glutinous rice balls, you must eat less oil at dinner or on the same day. Otherwise, too much fat and calories are inevitable.
Third, the nutritional value of chocolate stuffing is low.
There are also some good things in the stuffing, namely sesame seeds, peanuts and various nuts, as well as red bean paste. Nut raw materials have high nutritional value, and soybean paste also contains a lot of protein and minerals. In contrast, chocolate stuffing has the lowest nutritional value. It is likely that cocoa butter and chocolate-flavored spices are put in it, and the so-called cream jiaozi has similar problems. As for the glutinous rice balls filled with salty meat, there is too much oil and there is nothing to recommend them.
Recommendation 3: jiaozi with nuts, sesame seeds, bean paste and other fillings should be preferred.
Fourth, Yuanxiao is more difficult to digest than Tangyuan.
Yuanxiao and Tangyuan are slightly different. Yuanxiao is made of dry powder, with small stuffing and much powder. It's very hard to cook and hard to harden. Tangyuan is boiled with glutinous rice and wrapped in wet powder. Generally, it has a large filling and is soft and delicate to cook. Originally glutinous rice flour was sticky and difficult to melt. In starch digestion, Yuanxiao is more difficult than Tangyuan. But for people who have difficulty digesting fat, jiaozi is more troublesome.
Recommendation 4: If you eat dumplings, you'd better eat them while they are hot. It's more difficult to digest when they are cold. Tangyuan is soft, so you should chew it slowly to avoid burns. There is too much fat to digest. Eat Yuanxiao slowly to avoid stomach upset.
5. Sugar-free jiaozi is not "sugar-free"
Many diabetics are interested in sugar-free jiaozi and think they can eat it without sugar. In fact, sugar-free does not mean low calorie, nor does it mean hypoglycemia. Because glutinous rice flour in glutinous rice balls can raise blood sugar, even faster than honey, and similar to sugar. Even without sugar, eating it is not conducive to controlling blood sugar, so diabetics should be very careful. Moreover, not containing sugar does not mean that there is less oil, so much saturated fatty acids, even trans fatty acids, are not conducive to controlling blood lipids.
Suggestion 5: If you are worried about sugar and oil, eat less and don't be superstitious about sugar-free products. In a beautiful festival, just eat two or three glutinous rice balls. In order to control blood sugar and blood lipids, it is advisable to choose low-fat and high-fiber foods, such as beans, vegetables, fungi and algae, which are all good choices.