Passionate Lantern You and I go together
The fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night of the year, the first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called "night" "supper", so the fifteenth day of the first month is called "Lantern Festival". "The sound of the phoenix, the light of the jade pot, the dance of the fish and dragon in one night... The crowd looked for him for a thousand hundred degrees, and suddenly looked back, but the man was in a place where the lights were dimmed", Xin Renjie's "Qingyu Case, New Year's Eve", described the lively scene of the fifteenth lantern festival on the first month. In a few words, a folk scene of the Song Dynasty Lantern Festival jumped on the paper.
Eating lanterns, flower lanterns, dragon and lion dances, and guessing lantern riddles are the traditional customs of the Lantern Festival, which have lasted for a long time. Since the Song Dynasty, people have to eat a special food on the fifteenth day of the first month, which is now the Lantern Festival. When it comes to eating the Lantern on the fifteenth day of the first month, perhaps friends in the south have to say: We don't eat the Lantern, we eat Tangyuan, and the Lantern is eaten by northerners. People who don't know why will have questions: Aren't the Lantern and Tangyuan one thing? The Lantern and Tangyuan are indeed not one thing. Let's see what the difference is between them.
The Lantern is "rolled" out, and the tangyuan is "wrapped" out
Indeed, according to the previous food tradition, the northerners ate on the day of the Lantern Festival, "a few days before the arrival of the Lantern Festival, there will be a "rolling" Lantern machine on the street, a huge machine, shaking back and forth, the glutinous rice flour inside lies countless Lanterns, waiting to "roll" to the right size, the person in charge of the machine will sift these Lanterns, sift off the floating powder on the surface of the Lantern Festival, pack and weigh it, people you buy home one bag by one, this is the Lantern. It can be seen that the Lantern festival is "rolled". Cut the solid filling prepared in advance into small pieces, wet it with water and put it into the glutinous rice flour to roll a few rolls, let the surface of the Lantern dip a layer of glutinous rice flour, and then continue to wet and continue to roll, so repeat several times, until it rolls into a round ball before stopping, the surface of the nightless dry has floating powder.
The tangyuan is wrapped out: the glutinous rice flour is combined into a dough, wrapped in various fillings, and the surface is smooth.
The filling of The Lantern and the Tangyuan is different
The filling of the Lantern is relatively single, generally speaking, it is a sweet filling, such as bean paste filling and black sesame filling, which are the most common.
The filling of the tangyuan is much richer. It's no surprise that meat is vegetarian, sweet and salty, and whole grain fruit and flower fillings are not surprising.
There is also a difference between the way to eat the Lantern and the Tangyuan
Lantern can be boiled or fried. If you cook the Lantern, because it is rolled out, there is dry glutinous rice flour on the surface, and the soup that cooks the Lantern is bound to be very cloudy, and it usually takes about ten minutes to cook. Therefore, eating the Lantern fried is a unique way of eating in the north. Frying the Lantern pan over low heat, golden color, sweet and soft glutinous, is a favorite practice of many northerners.
Tangyuan can be boiled but not fried. Although the filling of the tangyuan can be so rich that you can't imagine it, it is quite simple to eat, usually only boiled to eat, but it is easy to cook, cooked for three or five minutes, and the soup will not be cloudy.
There are different ways to save
Supper, limited by the production method, is usually eaten freshly, can not be frozen, if frozen will produce cracking.
Tangyuan can be frozen and preserved, and the shelf life is very long, which is why tangyuan can be bought all over the country. Nowadays, the custom of northerners to eat the Lantern on the fifteenth day of the first month is moving closer to the southerners, because fewer and fewer lanterns are being made on the spot, and instead of the supermarket freezer full of tangyuan.
Tips:
The filling of the tangyuan uses lard, the more flowing tangyuan, the higher the amount of lard, eat 6-7 tangyuan, the calories can be compared with two bowls of rice. Therefore, eating tangyuan should have a degree, it is best to taste it shallowly, and do not be greedy, especially the elderly.
Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture is an autonomous prefecture under the jurisdiction of Jilin Province, with its capital in Yanji City. Yanbian Prefecture is located in the eastern part of Northeast China and the eastern border of Jilin Province, with high terrain in the west and low in the east, and slopes southeast from the southwest, northwest and northeast. Yanbian is located in the middle temperate zone of the northern hemisphere and has a temperate monsoon climate. It is a very representative northern city.
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