Symbolic significance of glutinous rice balls: family reunion symbolizes happiness. Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in China, and it is also a health festival. At this time, it is winter and spring communication, and March 9 has passed, but people still need to keep warm when the weather is warm and cold. On the fifteenth day of the first month, Yuanxiao is eaten in the north and Tangyuan is eaten in the south.

Chinese medicine believes that spring health care should pay attention to the rise of yang, while avoiding excessive rise. In order to restrain the liver, wood and spleen, we should pay attention to adding sweet (sweet) flavor to replenish the spleen in diet. Therefore, most of the jiaozi eaten during the Lantern Festival also contains delicious and sweet products such as bean paste, sesame seeds, peanuts, almonds, walnuts and jujube paste.

Tangyuan is not suitable for everyone. Many people like to eat jiaozi, but not everyone is suitable for it. As we all know, glutinous rice dumplings are made of glutinous rice, which is warm, sticky and difficult to digest. Those with damp-heat and phlegm-fire are characterized by cough, fever, abdominal distension and constipation. Eating should be avoided.

Glutinous rice is also not suitable for children and patients. For example, in the "Fun Life Diet Spectrum", "Glutinous rice is too sticky to melt. Children and patients should avoid it. "

Tangyuan is actually a typical food with high carbohydrate, high fat and high sugar. For the "three highs" people with diabetes, hypertension and hyperlipidemia, as well as the overweight and obese people, it is certainly not appropriate to eat more. Traditional Chinese medicine says that "sweet into the spleen", glutinous rice balls are sweet and have a particularly high sugar content, which has a "slow stagnation" effect.

It is used for tumor patients after surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, especially digestive tract tumors; There are also patients with gastrointestinal ulcers, chronic pancreatitis and gastroenteritis. If you eat too much sticky food, it will overload the gastrointestinal tract, slow down gastrointestinal peristalsis, and lead to gastrointestinal symptoms such as bloating, burping, diarrhea and loss of appetite.