What can’t you eat during the Lantern Festival? What to eat during the Lantern Festival? What is the meaning of eating glutinous rice balls?
Speaking of the Lantern Festival, I believe everyone is familiar with it. So, let’s take a look at what we cannot eat during the Lantern Festival? The arrival of the first day of the Lunar New Year means that we have entered the new year. What should we pay attention to if we want to live a better life in the new year? Let Shuimoxiansheng.com’s 2021 New Year special topic guide you.What can’t you eat during the Lantern Festival?There is no food that is not allowed to be eaten during the Lantern Festival.However, because the Lantern Festival is a family reunion festival, many families will prepare a sumptuous meal. Therefore, when eating, you need to pay attention to a balanced diet and eat less spicy and greasy food. What to eat during the Lantern Festival?1. Eat glutinous rice ballsDuring the Lantern Festival, people in the south eat glutinous rice balls, mainly to pray for family reunion. 2. Eat lettuce During the Lantern Festival, Guangdong people like to "steal" lettuce, mix it with cakes and pastries and cook it. It is said that this food represents good luck. 3. Drink Yuanxiao tea In Shaanxi and other places, there is a custom of eating Yuanxiao tea, which is to put various vegetables and fruits into the hot soup noodles, which is very similar to the ancient "Yuanxiao porridge". 4. Drink oil tea The food on the night of the Lantern Festival is called "15 flat dumplings, 16 round dumplings", one day eating dumplings, the next day eating Yuanxiao; 5. Eat dumplings The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is here. People in the north have the habit of eating dumplings. People in Henan have the Lantern Festival custom and tradition of "flat dumplings on the fifteenth and round dumplings on the sixteenth", so dumplings should be eaten on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. What is the meaning of eating glutinous rice balls?As one of the traditional foods of the Lantern Festival, glutinous rice balls also have their own meaning.The name of glutinous rice balls is similar in pronunciation to "reunion", which means reunion. It symbolizes the reunion of the whole family, harmony and happiness, and expresses people's love for family reunions. People also use it to miss their separated relatives and express their good wishes for future life. Folk experts said that when cooking glutinous rice balls, because they float on the water after the pot is opened, they look very beautiful, which reminds people of a bright moon hanging in the sky. There is a bright moon in the sky, dumplings in the bowl, and every family is reunited, symbolizing reunion and good luck. Therefore, eating glutinous rice balls expresses people's love for family reunion. It also shows the Chinese people's inheritance and love for traditional festivals, which is also a love for Chinese culture. |
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