Why do we eat glutinous rice balls during the Lantern Festival? How to choose glutinous rice balls for the Lantern Festival

Tangyuan symbolizes family reunion and happiness. At the same time, eating tangyuan also means family happiness and reunion in the new year, expressing people's yearning and expectation for a better life. Today we focus on how to choose tangyuan for the Lantern Festival, I hope it will be useful to you.

Contents of this article

1. Why do we eat glutinous rice balls during the Lantern Festival?

2. How to choose glutinous rice balls for Yuanxiao

3. Why is it easy to get tired of eating glutinous rice balls?

Why do we eat tangyuan during the Lantern Festival?

Eating glutinous rice balls during the Lantern Festival expresses people's yearning and expectation for a better life. "Tangyuan" is similar to "tuanyuan", which means "reunion". Tangyuan symbolizes family reunion and happiness. At the same time, eating glutinous rice balls also means family happiness and reunion in the new year, so it is a must-have food for the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month.

According to the record in Taiping Yulan that "On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Han family worshipped Taiyi from dusk to dawn", the Lantern Festival is a festival evolved from the religious ritual of the ancient emperors "lighting lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month to worship the Taoist Taiyi God". It is the product of the combination of Buddhist customs and Taoist traditions.

It was Emperor Wen of Han, Liu Heng, who officially named it and ordered the whole country to light lanterns and celebrate on this day every year. During the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, the Lantern Festival was listed as a major national festival and has been passed down from generation to generation since then.

How to choose glutinous rice balls for Yuanxiao

1. Choose a brand: Try to choose products from large-scale, high-quality, and service-oriented brand companies. These companies have strong technical strength, strict quality control of raw materials, advanced production equipment, strict process control, and relatively guaranteed product quality.

2. Look at the appearance: Good glutinous rice balls and Yuanxiao have uniform color, are basically round in shape, are basically the same size, have uniform skin thickness, do not expose the filling, do not crack, have no visible impurities, and have no mold spots. Bad products have dull and uneven color, different sizes, and some are cracked and the filling is exposed.

3. Taste: Good quality glutinous rice balls have smooth skin, white color, delicate filling, no rancidity, and no peculiar smell. Poor quality glutinous rice balls are rough and lack elasticity, and the taste is often too sweet or too oily.

4. Check the storage conditions: Currently, most of the products sold in shopping malls and supermarkets are quick-frozen glutinous rice balls and Yuanxiao. Quick-frozen products should be sold under frozen conditions. Do not buy products with frost or ice chips. Frost or ice chips indicate that the storage temperature of the product is unstable, which can easily cause the acid value of the product to increase and the microorganisms of the product to exceed the standard, which has a great impact on the product quality.

Why is it easy to get tired of eating glutinous rice balls?

1. Because glutinous rice is made of glutinous rice, which is rich in nutrients but difficult to digest.

2. Glutinous rice contains protein, fat, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, niacin and starch, etc. It is rich in nutrition and is a warm and strong food. It has the effects of replenishing qi, strengthening the spleen and stomach, and stopping sweating. It has a certain effect on alleviating poor appetite, abdominal distension and diarrhea. It is suitable for nausea, loss of appetite, diarrhea caused by spleen and stomach deficiency and sweating, shortness of breath and weakness caused by qi deficiency, and abdominal distension during pregnancy.