The main dietary customs of Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in China, which existed in the Western Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago. The customs and habits of Lantern Festival have changed a lot, but it is still one of the traditional folk festivals in China. Do you know the main dietary customs of Lantern Festival? Let's take a look at the main dietary customs of the Lantern Festival. Welcome to check!

Chinese dumpling

On the fifteenth day of the first month, northerners have the habit of eating jiaozi, while people in Henan have the custom and tradition of "fifteen flats and sixteen circles" for Lantern Festival, so they should eat jiaozi on the fifteenth day of the first month. Jiaozi is a folk food with a long history and is deeply loved by people. There is a folk saying "delicious but not as good as jiaozi".

Jujube paste 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.

New Year cake; rice cake

Sticky cakes are also called rice cakes. Besides Yuanxiao and noodles, some people eat sticky cakes on the Lantern Festival. Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty, wrote in "Prescription for Emergency Use Dietotherapy" that "autotrophic rice is sweet, slightly cold, non-toxic, clearing heat and benefiting qi." After the Tang Dynasty, there were also records of eating cakes during the Lantern Festival in the Yuan Dynasty.

Traditional customs of Lantern Festival

1. Eating Yuanxiao: Eating Yuanxiao as a food on the 15th day of the first month has a long history in China. In the Song Dynasty, a novel Lantern Festival food was popular among the people. This kind of food was originally called "Floating Zi Yuan", later called "Yuanxiao", and merchants also called it "Yuanbao". Yuanxiao, or "Tangyuan", contains sugar, roses, sesame seeds, red bean paste, cinnamon bark, walnut kernel, nuts, jujube paste and so on. And wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a circle, you can be vegetarian and have different flavors.

2. The custom of setting off lanterns in the Lantern Festival developed into an unprecedented lantern market in the Tang Dynasty. Chang 'an, the capital at that time, was already the largest city with a population of one million in the world, and its society was rich. Under the personal initiative of the emperor, the Lantern Festival became more and more luxurious. After the middle Tang Dynasty, it has developed into a national carnival.

3. Valentine's Day

Lantern Festival is a romantic festival. In the feudal traditional society, Lantern Festival also provides unmarried men and women with opportunities to get to know each other. In traditional society, young girls are not allowed to go out freely, but they can go out to play together on holidays. Lantern Festival lanterns are just an opportunity to make friends, and unmarried men and women can also find their own partners by the way. During the Lantern Festival, it is also the time for young men and women to meet their lovers.

Lantern Festival riddles

Love to travel (to use an idiom)-overjoyed

The blind touch the elephant (to use an idiom)-I don't know the gist.

Candied Huanglian (to borrow an idiom)-share joys and sorrows.

Accounting (to borrow an idiom)-resourceful.

Sail against the current (to use an idiom-strive for the upper reaches)

Cut the gordian knot (to use an idiom-solve it easily)

See-saw (playing idioms)-one by one

Dont Ask For Help in trouble (to borrow an idiom)-self-reliance.

Thresher (to use an idiom)-speak hesitatingly

Extend in all directions (to use an idiom)-well organized.

One piece becomes nine pieces (to use an idiom)-fall apart