How much Lantern Festival to eat, when to eat, is there any attention?

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival, but it doesn't have to be this day to eat it, you can eat it at ordinary times, you can eat as much as you want, as long as you can eat it.

I don't pay attention to eating Lantern Festival, right?!

The Lantern Festival is generally eaten on the 15th day of the first lunar month, but it is sold in supermarkets all year round, and it is okay to eat it at other times.

Every year on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, it is one of the traditional important festivals in our country, and one of the foods that almost every family must eat on this day is "Lantern Festival" or "Tangyuan". Whether it is boiled or fried in oil, Lantern Festival is an extremely delicious food, but do you really know the origin of eating Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month?

According to legend, the Lantern Festival originated from King Zhao of Chu in the Spring and Autumn Period. When King Chu Zhao once passed the Yangtze River, he saw something floating in the water covering Brother Pei, so he ordered others to salvage it. This thing is a sweet food that is white on the outside and red on the inside, and King Chu Zhao was very puzzled, so he took these things that were salvaged and went to consult Confucius.

Confucius said: "This duckweed fruit is also a sign of the Lord's revival." That is to say, when this item is a sign of good luck, King Chu Zhao was very happy when he heard it, and it happened that this day was the fifteenth day of the first month, so King Chu Zhao ordered that this fruit should be imitated on the fifteenth day of the first month every year, and the more gradually formed the custom of eating Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month.

1. Lantern Festival is one of the traditional Chinese snacks, and it is an indispensable food during the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

2. The Lantern Festival, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, the Little New Year's Month, the New Year's Day or the Lantern Festival, is one of the festivals in China, which is held on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year. The first month of the first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancients called the "night" as the "night", and the fifteenth day of the first month of the Sui year is the first full moon night of the year, so the fifteenth day of the first month is called the "Lantern Festival". According to the Taoist "three yuan", the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is also called the "Shangyuan Festival".

Since ancient times, the custom of the Lantern Festival has been dominated by the custom of watching lanterns with a warm guess and a festive view.

Generally at night.

The Lantern Festival was also called the Shangyuan Festival in ancient times, according to the traditional festival habits, the whole city went out at night to watch the lanterns and guess the lantern riddles, which lasted for a long time. Tangyuan is generally made with glutinous rice flour, which is more difficult to digest and resistant to hunger. Ancient people generally only ate two meals a day, in order not to be hungry when watching the lights at night, after eating glutinous rice balls at night, go out to watch the lanterns and guess riddles, which is more durable, and it can also be better to consume food.

So traditionally, it is eaten at night.

Contraindications for eating Lantern Festival:

1. It should not be used as breakfast.

Lantern Festival is a high-calorie, high-sugar food, but also contains oil, but lack of nutrients, people get up early when the gastrointestinal function is the weakest, breakfast Lantern Festival is easy to indigestion, acid reflux, heartburn and other conditions, affecting the day's work and life. Therefore, it is not advisable to eat Lantern Festival for breakfast.

2. Don't swallow in one bite.

It is best to eat the rice balls in small bites, not in one bite, so as not to burn the esophagus or choke. The hot glutinous rice balls have just come out of the pot, and the temperature is very high, especially the high-fat filling in it, which can easily cause the esophagus to be burned if swallowed in one bite.

3. Don't eat as a meal.

In addition to breakfast and supper are not suitable for eating Lantern Festival, it is best not to take Lantern Festival as a main meal. And while eating Lantern Festival and glutinous rice balls, you can no longer eat other foods with high sugar content, and you must reduce the intake of other staple foods. Don't eat too much after eating Lantern Festival, don't lie down immediately after eating, it's best to move for more than two hours before going to sleep.

1. Eat Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and "Lantern Festival" as a food has a long history in China. During the Song Dynasty, Mingzhou (now Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province) arose to eat a novel food. This kind of food was first called "floating yuanzi", and later called "Lantern Festival", and the businessman also called it "ingot".

2. The Lantern Festival is the soup with white sugar, rose, sesame, bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnut kernel, nut, jujube paste, etc. as the filling, wrapped into a circle with glutinous rice flour, which can be meat or vegetarian, and the flavor is different. The soup can be boiled, fried in oil, and steamed, which has the meaning of reunion and happiness. Shaanxi's glutinous rice balls are not wrapped, but are rolled in glutinous rice flour, or boiled or fried, hot and hot, and reunited.

1. The custom of eating Lantern Festival began in the Song Dynasty.

2. The custom of eating Lantern Festival on the Lantern Festival was formed in the Song Dynasty. During the Tang Dynasty, the Lantern Festival ate "face cocoons" and "round and not falling corners". In the Southern Song Dynasty, "lactose balls" appeared, which was the predecessor of glutinous rice balls.

3. At the beginning, the Lantern Festival was mostly called "Tangyuan", because it floated on the water after boiling, which was very beautiful, reminiscent of a bright moon hanging in the sky. The bright moon in the sky, the rice balls in the bowl, and the reunion of every household, symbolizing the auspiciousness of reunion. Therefore, eating Lantern Festival expresses people's love for family reunion.