Why do you eat soup during the Lantern Festival, and what is the legend of this?

What kind of soup is eaten during the Lantern Festival? Isn't it eating Lantern Festival?

Eat Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and "Lantern Festival" as a food has a long history in China. In the Song Dynasty, the folk were popular with a novel food eaten during the Lantern Festival. This kind of food was first called "Fu Yuanzi" and later called "Lantern Festival", and businessmen also called it "Yuanbao".

Lantern Festival, that is"Glutinous rice balls"Filled with sugar, rose, sesame, bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnut kernels, nuts, jujube paste, etc., wrapped into a circle with glutinous rice flour, meat or vegetarian, with different flavors. It can be boiled, fried, and steamed, which has the meaning of reunion. Shaanxi's glutinous rice balls are not wrapped, but in glutinous rice flour""into it, or boiled or fried, hot and hot, and reunited.

"Lantern Festival" as a food has also been around in China for a long time. In the Song Dynasty, the folk were popular with a novel food eaten during the Lantern Festival. This kind of food was first called "Fu Yuanzi" and later called "Lantern Festival", and businessmen also called it "Yuanbao".

In ancient times, the "Lantern Festival" ** was more expensive, and there was a poem that said: "Distinguished guests hook the curtain to see the royal street, and the treasures in the city come for a while." There is no way to go in front of the curtain, and no money can be returned.

The north "rolls" the Lantern Festival, and the south "wraps" the rice balls, which are two different foods with different practices and tastes.

The custom of eating glutinous rice balls during the Lantern Festival was formed around the time of the Song Dynasty.

According to records, during the Tang Dynasty, the Lantern Festival ate "noodle cocoons" and "round and not falling corners". In the Southern Song Dynasty, "lactose balls" appeared, which should be the predecessor of glutinous rice balls. The poem "Lantern Festival Boiled Floating Balls" written by Zhou Bida in the Song Dynasty contains the verses "In the stars and dark clouds, the beads float in the turbid water".

In the Ming Dynasty, there were more names for "Lantern Festival".

The Lantern Festival, also known as the "Shangyuan Festival" or "Lantern Festival". According to records, the Lantern Festival has appeared in the Han Dynasty, and in the Ming and Qing dynasties, it was called the three traditional festivals of Chinese folk together with the Spring Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival, and has a history of more than 2,000 years.

People call this kind of glutinous rice ball food "floating balls", and later called "tangtang" or "tangyuan", these names "reunion" are similar in sound, take the meaning of reunion, symbolize the reunion of the whole family, harmony and happiness, people also miss the parting relatives, and entrust the good wishes for the future life.

Origin: Regarding the origin of eating Lantern Festival during the Lantern Festival, there is also an interesting legend among the folk. According to legend:

The Lantern Festival originated from King Zhao of Chu during the Spring and Autumn Period. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, King Zhao of Chu passed by the Yangtze River and saw floating objects on the river, which was a sweet food that was white on the outside and red on the inside. King Zhao of Chu consulted Confucius, and Confucius said"This duckweed fruit is also a sign of the Lord's revival"。

Because this day is the fifteenth day of the first month, every day in the future, King Zhao ordered his subordinates to imitate this fruit with noodles, and use hawthorn to make a red filling to cook and eat, which is the prototype of today's Lantern Festival. Since then, eating Lantern Festival has become a tradition.

The Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in China, where the Lantern Festival is eaten in the north and the rice balls are eaten in the south, which are two foods with different practices and tastes. Lantern Festival generally uses only vegetarian solid sweet filling, which is cut into small pieces, dipped in water and repeatedly rounded in glutinous rice flour until the right size, and its surface is dry. The filling of the glutinous rice balls is meat and vegetarian, first mix the glutinous rice flour into a dough, wrap the filling like a dumpling and then knead the round.

The taste of the rice balls is more delicate and smooth than that of the Lantern Festival.

In the south, the Lantern Festival is called "Tangyuan", "Yuanzi", "Fuyuanzi", and "Shuiyuan", and is made from glutinous rice (or sweet potatoes in some regions), either solid, or stuffed. The filling has bean paste, sugar, hawthorn, etc., boiled, fried, steamed, and fried.

At first, people called this food "floating balls", and later "gnocchi" or "tangyuan", these names are the sameThe word "reunion" is similar in sound, take the meaning of reunion, symbolThe whole family is reunited, harmonious and happyPeople also cherish the memory of their departed relatives and place their hopes for a better life in the future. Eating Lantern Festival symbolizes the reunion of the family like the full moon, and entrusts people's good wishes for future life.

In modern times, there is a story related to the Lantern Festival: Yuan Shikai was still unwilling to be the emperor after making a big **, and he still wanted to be the emperor, but because his dream could not come true, he was troubled all day long. One day, his aunt and wife said that they wanted to eat Lantern Festival, and as soon as the words came out, they were slapped by Yuan Shikai, because "Lantern Festival" and "Yuan Xiao" are homophonic, and Yuan Shikai gave an order to his subordinates from then on, not to say "Lantern Festival" again, but only "Tangyuan".

Later, someone wrote a limerick poem on this matter: "The poem sung the round and traced back to the previous dynasty, and floated on the water when steaming and boiling." Hong Xian passed the ban that year, and it was forbidden to shout Lantern Festival along the street. ”

The custom of eating glutinous rice balls during the Lantern Festival was formed around the time of the Song Dynasty. The rice balls in the bowl, the family is reunited, symbolizing the auspiciousness of reunion. Therefore, eating glutinous rice balls expresses people's love for family reunion.

At the same time, it also shows that the Chinese pass on the traditional festival to eat rice balls is a traditional custom of the Chinese, especially popular in Jiangnan. There is a folk saying that "one year older after eating glutinous rice balls". Chen Zhisui's "Tangyuan" poem:

Every year on the winter solstice, do you know if you are a year old? As the saying goes: "Ningbo families pound rice to make glutinous rice balls, and they are content and happy for another day."

Hu Bingyan also has a poem: "Xiangze glutinous rice is made into glutinous rice balls, and the boiling water is rich and salty." The entrance is sweet and smooth, and the family is happy and drunk.

Ningbo glutinous rice balls" is a must-have food, is a kind of round dessert made of glutinous rice flour, "round" means "reunion" and "consummation", eat tangyuan at festival time, symbolize family harmony, auspicious, so to glutinous rice balls are also called "floating yuanzi".