Since ancient times, we in China have paid special attention to the Lantern Festival, because after the Lantern Festival, it means a new year. However, you work outside, do you miss jiaozi in your hometown? Because after eating jiaozi, it means that the family is round and round. However, in Chaoshan area, especially when eating Yuanxiao rice, clam, garlic and fish balls are indispensable traditional foods in Chaoshan, and the processed cooking flavor is particularly delicious, mouth-watering, extremely interesting and healthier.

Eat clam-meaning "more money and silver"

Sand clam, also known as "Que clam", commonly known as "Conch", has a shell like "Walloon pattern". Rich in Chaoshan coastal areas, its shell is commonly known as "clam shell money". According to legend, the shell of ancient mussels symbolizes the meaning of "money", so the family eats mussels at midnight on the Lantern Festival. Clam meat is delicious and nutritious. Chinese medicine believes that eating Meretrix meretrix has the functions of quenching thirst, diuresis, resolving phlegm and softening hardness. The usual way to eat is to wash it, then scald it with boiling water and bring meat. Therefore, the ancients had the name of boiling sand clams with "crab eye water" (water was called "small bubble" before cooking). Very delicious.

Eating garlic means "money first"

"Garlic" is homophonic with "suan" in Chaozhou dialect, and the elders take the lead in calling their children and grandchildren, saying that "eating garlic and eating money". Modern pharmacological research holds that garlic contains allicin, a volatile oil, which has the functions of detoxification, detumescence and sterilization, and plays a role in preventing and treating intestinal diseases. Chivalrous people eat garlic in Lantern Festival, and they are very particular about cooking. The cooking method of "thick fish sauce with big fire" (that is, when frying with pig fat, you should mix Chaoshan mellow fish sauce) is cooked, tender and crisp, which is a major dietary feature of hipsters.

Eating fish balls means "when you get older, you have more money, and you have to celebrate your reunion every year."

"Fish" is homophonic with "fish", "pill" is homophonic with "yuan", and eating "fish pill" symbolizes "more than every year" and family reunion.

Chaoshan fish balls are another traditional food for hipsters, which is most suitable for midnight snack. Add laver or coriander, and the seasoning is clear soup, which is delicious and appetizing.

After the influx of people celebrated the Lantern Festival and hosted a banquet to have a "reunion dinner", the family ate sugar cane. As the saying goes, "sugarcane never hurts."

Chinese medicine believes that sugar cane, the fruit of the spleen, can purge heat, remove the annoyance of the heart, help temper, widen the chest and diaphragm, and facilitate urination and defecation. In the cherry poem written by Wang Wei in the Tang Dynasty, there is a saying, "When you are full, you don't have to worry about internal heat, but the official is still cold." This shows that Tang people have clinically verified the sexual and taste functions of sugarcane, and the curative effect is excellent.

From this point of view, the food hygiene of ancient hipsters from the Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival is very particular, and it has its medical principle of health and longevity.