The origin of Lantern Festival

Yuanxiao originally meant "the night of the Lantern Festival", because the main activity of the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month was to watch the lights and enjoy the moon at night, and later the name of the festival evolved into "Lantern Festival".

The main food of the Lantern Festival is also called Yuanxiao. In the south, Yuanxiao is also called "Tangyuan" and "Zi Yuan". It is said that Yuanxiao symbolizes family reunion, and eating Yuanxiao means family happiness and all the best in the New Year.

Zongzi is a round food made of glutinous rice flour. It is eaten on the 15th day of the first month and has a long history as a food in China. In the Song Dynasty, a novel Lantern Festival food was popular among the people. This kind of food was originally called "Floating Zi Yuan", later called "Yuanxiao", and merchants also called it "Yuanbao". Yuanxiao is filled with white sugar, rose, sesame, red bean paste, osmanthus fragrans, walnut kernel, nuts and jujube paste, and wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a round shape, which can be both meat and vegetarian with different flavors. It can be boiled, fried and steamed, which means happy reunion. Jiaozi, Shaanxi is not wrapped, but "rolled" in glutinous rice flour, or boiled or fried, warm and round.

The origin of yuanxiao

When and where the custom of eating Yuanxiao originated, people have different opinions. It is said that before the Spring and Autumn Period, King Zhao and Chu passed the Yangtze River on his way back from the countryside and saw something floating on the river. It was white with yellow in color, and there was a kind of pulp as red as rouge in it, which tasted very sweet. People didn't know what it was, so Zhao Haoqi sent someone to ask Confucius. Confucius said, "This duckweed fruit is also a sign of the master's revival." Because this is the fifteenth day of the first month, on this day, Zhao Haoqi ordered his people to imitate this fruit and cook it with flour and red hawthorn stuffing. There is also a saying that Yuanxiao was originally called Tangyuan. When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, there was a maid-in-waiting named Yuanxiao, who was very good at making dumplings. Since then, the world has been named after this maid-in-waiting. These two legends are not recorded in historical materials, so they are not credible.

The earliest record of eating Lantern Festival can be traced back to the Song Dynasty. At that time, Yuanxiao was called "floating dumplings", "dumplings", "lactose dumplings" and "sugar dumplings". According to historical records such as Pingyuan Xu, Guangji Four Years Old and Ode to Daming, Yuanxiao, as a timely food to celebrate the Lantern Festival, began in the Song Dynasty. Because we must eat "Zi Yuan" during the Lantern Festival, people named it Yuanxiao.

Yuanxiao was very precious in the Song Dynasty. Jiang Baishi wrote a poem, "Guests look at Yujie with a hook curtain. The baby in the city came for a while, and the flower shelf in front of the curtain had no choice but to refuse to pay back the money. " The "treasure" in the poem refers to Yuanxiao.

In modern times, there are also stories related to the Lantern Festival. Yuan Shikai is not willing to be a big president, but also wants to be an emperor. Because his dream can't come true, he has been very upset. One day, his aunt said that she wanted to eat Yuanxiao. When' tis once spoken, Yuan Shikai gave her a slap in the face. Because Yuanxiao and Yuan Xiao are homophonic, Yuan had ordered his men not to say "Yuanxiao" again, but only "Tangyuan". Later, someone wrote a jingle about this matter: "Poetry goes back to the previous dynasty, and water is steaming and boiling." Hong Xian issued a ban on selling Yuanxiao along the street.

Making method of Yuanxiao

Yuanxiao is a round food made of glutinous rice flour, which is divided into solid and stuffing. There are sweet and salty ones with stuffing. Sweet fillings generally include lard bean paste, white sugar sesame, sweet-scented osmanthus assorted, jujube paste, nuts, sesame, almond, ginkgo, hawthorn and so on; Salty stuffing generally includes diced fresh meat, diced ham and shrimp skin. Yuanxiao made of mustard, onion, garlic, leek and ginger is called "Five Flavors Yuanxiao", which means hard work and long-term progress.

There are many ways to make Yuanxiao, and there are great differences between north and south. To make Yuanxiao in the south, glutinous rice flour is mixed with boiling water to make the skin, and then the stuffing is "wrapped"; To make Yuanxiao in the north, first knead the stuffing into a uniform ball, put it in a laundry basket covered with dry glutinous rice flour and shake it constantly. Add water from time to time, so that the stuffing is stained with more and more glutinous rice flour until the size is moderate. Yuanxiao is different in size, the big one is like a walnut, and the small one is like a soybean.

Specific introduction:

Do dumplings make meat?

Ingredients: appropriate amount of glutinous rice, rice, minced lean meat, soy sauce, pepper, cooking wine, Jiang Mo, minced winter vegetables and chopped green onion.

Exercise:

1. Mix glutinous rice with rice, soak it for 1~2 days, grind it, put it in a cloth bag and hang it to make flour.

2. Pour a little oil into the pot, stir-fry the minced meat when the oil is seven-ripe, add soy sauce, pepper, wine and Jiang Mo, and take out.

3. After the cooked minced meat is cooled, add a proper amount of raw minced meat, minced winter vegetables and chopped green onion, mix well, freeze in the refrigerator and cut into small pieces for stuffing.

4. Add appropriate amount of ice water to the flour and knead well. Take a small piece and knead it flat. Wrap it with stuffing and knead it round.

5. Cook jiaozi in the pot, and don't let the fire be too strong. When jiaozi floats to the surface, take them out.

6. Put some soy sauce, pepper, monosodium glutamate, lard and chopped green onion. Pour a proper amount of soup into the bowl, and put the removed glutinous rice balls into it to eat.

Walnut Cheese jiaozi

Ingredients: dried walnut kernel150g, glutinous rice 50g, glutinous rice flour150g, hemp seed100g, jujube 50g, a little flour and osmanthus fragrans.

Exercise:

1. Put the white sugar into a bowl, add a little osmanthus, hemp seed and flour, add a little boiling water and mix well, put it on the table, pat it with a knife into thin slices with a thickness of 1.5 minutes, and cut it into cubes with a square size of 1.5 minutes, that is, the dumplings are filled.

2. Put the rice noodles in the dustpan. Put the dumpling stuffing in a colander, soak it in cold water, pour it into a dustpan, and shake it with both hands, so that the dumpling stuffing is covered with glutinous rice flour for three consecutive times, and it becomes jiaozi. Cook in the pot for about 10 minutes, and it will be cooked when it floats.

3. Wash the walnut kernel twice with boiling water, peel and chop it, wash the jujube and soak it in cold water 12 hours.

4. Put glutinous rice, walnut kernel and jujube meat into a bowl, add 200 grams of water and mix well, and grind it into fine pulp with a small mill.

5. Put the water in a clean spoon, add sugar, and it will boil as soon as you get angry. Skim the floating foam, quickly add the walnut paste, stir into porridge until cooked, put it in a bowl, and take out the cooked jiaozi.

Tangzi sweet glutinous dumplings

Ingredients: 2500g glutinous rice flour, 750g sugar, 0/50g cooked flour/kloc-,50g lard, 25g melon seeds, 25g walnuts, 25g sesame seeds, 3 oranges, green shredded pork and a little essence.

Exercise:

1. Mix100g of cooked flour, 500g of sugar, lard, melon seeds, walnuts and sesame seeds. Pour in the paste made of 50 grams of cooked flour, knead it into stuffing and cut it into cubes the size of corn kernels.

2. Put some glutinous rice flour in the laundry list, put the soaked stuffing in the paper, and roll it into a glutinous rice balls of moderate size. Cut the orange in half and squeeze out the juice.

3. After the water boils, pour in the glutinous rice balls. After the glutinous rice balls surface, add sugar and orange juice, and put them into the bowl after the sugar melts.

Draw glutinous rice balls

Ingredients: 300g glutinous rice flour, 300g soft sugar, 25g pork fat, a little green shredded pork, osmanthus fragrans, melon seeds, sesame seeds, 50g syrup, 50g cooked noodles and 750g peanut oil (actual dosage100g).

Exercise:

1. Chop green and red shredded pork, and mix with lard, sugar 150g, osmanthus fragrans, cooked noodles, syrup, melon seeds and other ingredients to form crystal stuffing.

2. Break the mixed stuffing into pieces with a thickness of 3 mm, cut into cubes with a width of 3 mm, put the glutinous rice flour into water and shake it with a dustpan, and repeat it for 3 times to form raw glutinous rice balls.

3. Pour peanut oil into the frying spoon. Cook until it is ripe, put in the glutinous rice balls and poke them out with chopsticks. After floating, pick it up with a colander and pat the opening with a small spoon.

4. Put the frying spoon on the fire, inject a little water, add 150g sugar, stir-fry until golden brown, add the glutinous rice balls, remove the spoon from the fire and stir, sprinkle with green shredded pork and sesame seeds.

Jiuguo sweet glutinous dumplings

Raw materials: 2500g of glutinous rice flour, 0/000g of sugar150g of cooked flour, 50g of lard, 20g of walnut kernel15g of peanut kernel, 25g of sesame seeds, 25g of melon strips, green shredded pork, hanging flower sauce and a little essence.

Exercise:

1. Add 500 grams of sugar to 100 grams of cooked noodles, and add green shredded pork, sesame seeds, peanut kernels, walnut kernels, osmanthus sauce, lard, essence, etc. , and beat 50g of flour into paste, pour them together, knead them into stuffing, pat them tightly into pieces, and then cut them into dices.

2. Put some glutinous rice lines in the laundry list, soak the cut cubes in water, put them on the glutinous rice lines in the laundry list, shake them by hand, so that the glutinous rice lines hang on the leftover stuffing and shake them into balls the size of glass balls for many times.

3. After the water in the pot is boiled, put the glutinous rice balls into the pot. When the glutinous rice balls float, add sugar, pour the soup into the flagon prepared for shochu, put the flagon on the table, and then light the wine in the flagon.

There are many ways to eat Yuanxiao, such as boiling, frying, frying and steaming. If solid Yuanxiao is boiled with fermented liquor, sugar and osmanthus, it has a unique flavor and is suitable for this supplement.

Legend of the lantern festival

Dong Fangshuo and Yuanxiao Girl

This legend is related to the custom of eating Yuanxiao: According to legend, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had a favorite named Dong Fangshuo, who was kind and funny. One winter, it snowed heavily for several days, and Dong Fangshuo went to the Imperial Garden to fold plum blossoms for Emperor Wu. As soon as I entered the garden gate, I found a maid-in-waiting in tears ready to throw herself into the well. Dong Fangshuo rushed forward to help and asked her why she committed suicide. It turns out that this maid-in-waiting is named Yuanxiao, and there are parents and a sister at home. She has never seen her family since she entered the palace. Every spring comes, I miss my family more than usual. I think in front of my parents, I would rather die than be filial. Dong Fangshuo expressed deep sympathy for her suffering and assured her that she would try her best to reunite with her family.

One day, Dong Fangshuo left the palace and set up a divination pavilion on Chang 'an Avenue. Many people are scrambling to find him for divination. Unexpectedly, what everyone wants is the signature of "burning us on the 16th day of the first month". Suddenly, there was a panic in Chang 'an. People are looking for a solution to the disaster. Dong Fangshuo said, "On the 13th night of the first month, Vulcan will send a goddess in red to visit the earth. She is the messenger who ordered the burning of Chang 'an. I'll give you the copied poem and let the emperor do something. " Say that finish, then dropped a red pillar and roared off. The people picked up the red post and quickly sent it to the palace to report to the emperor.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty took it and read: "Chang 'an is robbing, and the imperial palace is being burned. It has been burning for fifteen days, and the midnight snack is red." He was so scared that he hurriedly invited resourceful Dong Fangshuo. Dong Fangshuo thought for a moment and said, "I heard that Vulcan likes to eat dumplings. Don't Yuanxiao in the palace often make dumplings for you? Let Yuanxiao package jiaozi on 15th night. Long live the incense and offerings, and order every family in Kyoto to pack jiaozi and worship Vulcan together. Then tell the subjects to hang lights together on the fifteenth night and set off firecrackers and fireworks all over the city, as if the whole city were on fire, so that the jade emperor could be fooled. In addition, the people outside the city were informed that they would go to the city to watch the lights on the fifteenth night, and they would eliminate disasters and solve problems in the crowd. Emperor Wu was very happy, so he ordered to do it according to Dong Fangshuo's method.

On the fifteenth day of the first month, Chang 'an City was decorated with colorful lights, crowded with tourists and very lively. The parents of the maid-in-waiting Yuanxiao also took their sister to the city to see the lights. When they saw the big palace lantern with the words "Yuanxiao" written on it, they shouted in surprise: "Yuanxiao! Lantern Festival! " When Yuanxiao heard the shouts, she was finally reunited with her relatives at home.

After such a busy night, Chang 'an was safe. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was overjoyed and ordered that glutinous rice balls should be made for Vulcan every year on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the fifteenth day of the first month, the whole city was decorated with lanterns and set off fireworks. Because jiaozi cooked by Yuanxiao is the best, people call it Yuanxiao, and this day is called Lantern Festival.

Brief introduction of lantern festival

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, just after the Spring Festival, the traditional festival Lantern Festival in China was ushered in.

Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in China, which began in the Western Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago. Lantern Festival viewing began in the period of Emperor Han Ming in the East. Ming Di advocates Buddhism. He heard that on the fifteenth day of the first month, monks watched the Buddhist relics and lit lanterns to worship the Buddha, so that all the gentry and ordinary people hung lanterns. Later, this Buddhist ceremonial festival gradually formed a grand folk festival. This festival has experienced the development process from the court to the people, and from the Central Plains to the whole country.

Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty ordered the 15th day of the first month to be designated as the Lantern Festival. During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the sacrificial activities of "Taiyi God" were scheduled for the 15th day of the first month. Taiyi: the God who rules the universe. When Sima Qian created the taichu calendar Law, he had already identified the Lantern Festival as a major festival.

Another way of saying it is that the custom of burning lanterns in Lantern Festival originated from the "ternary theory" of Taoism; The fifteenth day of the first month is Shangyuan Festival, the fifteenth day of July is Zhongyuan Festival, and the fifteenth day of October is Xiayuan Festival. The officials in charge of the upper, middle and lower elements are heaven, earth and man respectively. The celestial officials are happy and the Lantern Festival should be lit.

The festivals and customs of Lantern Festival have been extended and expanded with the development of history. As far as the length of festivals is concerned, there is only one day in Han Dynasty, three days in Tang Dynasty and five days in Song Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, lights were lit from the eighth day of August until the seventeenth night of the first month, a total of ten days. Connected with the Spring Festival, it is a city during the day, full of excitement, and brightly lit at night, which is spectacular. Especially the exquisite and colorful lights make it the climax of entertainment activities during the Spring Festival. In the Qing Dynasty, there were more "hundred operas" such as dragon dancing, lion dancing, dry boating, walking on stilts and yangko dancing, but the festival period was shortened to four to five days.

The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called the night "Xiao", so they called the fifteenth day of the first month the Lantern Festival. The fifteenth day of the first month is the night of the first full moon in a year and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty. On the night of Spring Festival, people celebrate this festival and the continuation of the Spring Festival. Lantern Festival is also called "Shangyuan Festival".

According to the folk tradition in China, on this bright night, people light thousands of lanterns to celebrate. Going out to enjoy the moon, lighting and setting fires, enjoying lantern riddles, eating Yuanxiao, family reunion and celebrating festivals are all enjoyment.

Lantern Festival is also called Lantern Festival. The custom of burning lanterns in the Lantern Festival originated in the Han Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, the lantern viewing activities became more prosperous. Lights are hung everywhere in palaces and streets, and tall light wheels, light buildings and light trees have been built. Lu Zeng, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, described the grand occasion of the Lantern Festival in "Watching Lights at Fifteen Nights", saying that "the stars in the Han Dynasty fell, and the balcony was like a hanging moon."

"Lantern riddle", also known as "playing riddles", is an activity added after the Lantern Festival, which appeared in the Song Dynasty. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Lin 'an, the capital, made riddles every Lantern Festival, and there were many people in solve riddles on the lanterns. At the beginning, it was a busybody who wrote riddles on paper and posted them on colorful lanterns for people to guess. Because riddles are enlightening and interesting, they are welcomed by all walks of life in the process of communication.

Folk custom of eating Yuanxiao on Lantern Festival. Yuanxiao is made of glutinous rice, which can be solid or stuffed. Filled with bean paste, sugar, hawthorn, various fruit materials and so on. You can cook, fry, steam and fry when you eat. At first, people called this kind of food "Floating Zi Yuan", and later they called it "Tangtuan" or "Tangyuan". These names are similar in pronunciation, meaning reunion, symbolizing family reunion, harmony and happiness. People also miss their departed relatives and place their best wishes on their future lives.

In some places, the Lantern Festival also has the custom of "walking away from all diseases", which is also called "roasting all diseases" and "dispersing all diseases". Most of the participants are women. They walk together or against the wall, or across the bridge in the suburbs, in order to drive away diseases and eliminate disasters.

With the passage of time, there are more and more activities in the Lantern Festival, and many local festivals have added traditional folk performances such as playing dragon lanterns, playing lions, walking on stilts, rowing dry boats, dancing yangko and playing Taiping drums. This traditional festival, which has been passed down for more than two thousand years, is not only popular on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, but also celebrated every year in areas where overseas Chinese live in concentrated communities.

There are several interesting legends about the origin of the Lantern Festival: China has the custom of eating Yuanxiao during the Lantern Festival. According to folklore, Yuanxiao originated from King Zhao of Chu in the Spring and Autumn Period. On the fifteenth day of the first month, King Chu Zhao crossed the Yangtze River and saw floating objects on the river, which were sweets with white outside and red inside. King Zhao of Chu asked Confucius, and Confucius said, "This duckweed fruit is also a sign of the resurrection of the Lord." Yuanxiao is a kind of holiday food, just like rice cakes in the Spring Festival and zongzi in the Dragon Boat Festival. Eating Yuanxiao, like a full moon, symbolizes family reunion and entrusts people with good wishes for their future life. Yuanxiao is called "Tangyuan", "Zi Yuan", "Floating Zi Yuan" and "Shui Yuan" in the south. It is made of glutinous rice, solid or stuffed. The fillings are red bean paste, sugar, hawthorn and so on. Can be boiled, fried, steamed and fried.

Selected poems of Lantern Festival

Poetry theory

(Song) Jiang Baishi

The Lantern Festival competes to see the lotus boat, and the BMW car picks up the cymbals;

On a stormy night, people go to the empty building, and the lonely lamp still calls for selling glutinous rice balls.

Poetry theory

(Song) Jiang Baishi

The honored guests look at the Imperial Street with a hook curtain, and the treasures in the city come at one time.

There is no way out for the flower stand in front of the curtain, and there is no money to refuse to pay back.

(Note: Treasure here refers to Yuanxiao)

Fold laurels to make Lantern Festival.

Lose someone's name

I cherish the beautiful scene of the Lantern Festival. The bright moonlight shines and the lights are shining everywhere this night.

The moon is full of ice wheels, lights burn the land and sea, and people step on spring.

Three beauties can be rewarded, and four are ruthless and hateful.

What I am afraid of is the dim light, the quiet and desolate people, the corner of the south building and the west wing under the moon.

Bianjing Yuanxi

(Ming) Li Mengyang

Zhongshan Ruzi leans on new makeup, and Yan Ji, the daughter, plays alone.

Sing Wang Xianchun Yuefu together, and the moon outside the golden beam bridge is like frost.

night of the 15th of the first lunar month；Lantern Festival；yuanxiao

(Ming) Tang Yin

The moon without lights is not entertaining, and the moon without lights is not spring.

Spring is everywhere, just like the lady seen here. On a bright moonlit night, flashing lanterns set off the moon like pure silver.

The streets are full of Zhu Cui swimming around the girls in the village, singing songs and competing with the social gods.

How can you get rid of this wonderful moment if you don't show your respect and smile?

Shangyuan Zhi Zhu Ci

(Qing) Fu Zeng

Sweet-scented osmanthus stuffing is wrapped in walnuts, and rice is like a pearl well.

I can see that Ma Jia is good at dropping powder and trying to sell Yuanxiao in the wind.

The full moon of Lantern Festival

Minnan ballad

Lantern Festival, full moon, the hearts of compatriots in Fujian and Taiwan depend on each other,

Help the old and bring the young back to their hometown, but forget the cross-strait Sauvignon Blanc.

What's it like to have tears in your eyes? It feels so good to meet again after such a long separation!

Lantern Festival, cooking jiaozi, reunion of flesh and blood,

Men, women and children are sitting around the table, and the family is eating Yuanxiao.

The blood in the cradle is hard to break, and the fallen leaves are empty talk in the final analysis.

riddle written on a lantern

Tomb-Sweeping Day-On the Eve of Lantern Festival

Talking about Lantern Festival-Chatting at night

Around Lantern Festival-February

Various cooking methods and eating methods of Yuanxiao.

There are many ways to eat Yuanxiao, such as boiling, frying, frying and steaming. If solid Yuanxiao is boiled with fermented liquor, sugar and osmanthus, it has a unique flavor and is suitable for this supplement.

Southerners make "Yuanxiao", first add water and flour to glutinous rice flour to make skin, and then "wrap" the stuffing; Northerners make "Yuanxiao". First, they rolled the stuffing into a uniform ball and put it in a basket covered with dried glutinous rice flour, shaking it constantly. They add water from time to time to make the stuffing stick more glutinous rice flour until the size is moderate. Yuanxiao comes in different sizes, ranging from walnuts to soybeans. Cooking "Yuanxiao" also has skills: gently pinch it. Before cooking, gently pinch the "Yuanxiao" with your hands to make it crack slightly, so that the "Yuanxiao" made in this way is easy to cook inside and outside, soft and delicious. Boil water. After the water in the pot is boiled, put it in Yuanxiao, gently push it away with the back of the spoon, and let Yuanxiao rotate a few times, so as not to stick to the bottom of the pot. Cook gently. After "Yuanxiao" is cooked in the pot until it floats, it should be quickly switched to slow fire. Otherwise, "Yuanxiao" will keep turning, the heat will be uneven, the outside will be hard, and the inside will not be delicious. Order cold water. After the "Yuanxiao" is put into the pot, an appropriate amount of cold water should be added every time the pot is boiled to keep it tumbling instead of tumbling. After two or three times, cook for a while and then take it out to eat. The "Yuanxiao" cooked in this way is soft but not hard, sweet and delicious.

Besides cooking, there are many ways to eat Yuanxiao:

If the fried "Yuanxiao" is raw, you can paste it with egg white first and then fry it in the pot. The "Yuanxiao" fried in this way smells like eggs. When frying, turn it constantly to avoid uneven frying. When frying "Yuanxiao", it sometimes happens that "Yuanxiao" suddenly bursts open and splashes people in the oil pan. This phenomenon can be prevented if two small pinholes are pierced on the "Yuanxiao" with a needle before it is cooked. In addition, when frying, use a small fire to warm the oil, so that the fried "Yuanxiao" is sweet and delicious, and the skin is crisp and waxy.

Draw "Yuanxiao" and fry it for later use. Slide cooking oil on the bottom of the pot, add sugar and appropriate amount of water, and boil it with slow fire to make syrup. When the syrup is yellow, add the fried "Yuanxiao", stir it with the syrup, quickly take it out of the pot and eat it while it is hot, just like a golden bead wrapped in silk, which is not interesting.

Dress for Yuanxiao. Stir-fry sesame seeds and grind them into powder, put them into a pot with thick sugar paste, then pour them into the fried "Yuanxiao", roll them evenly, take them out of the pot and put them on a plate, spread them out one by one, and don't stick to each other. Suitable for cold food and hot food.

Steaming "Yuanxiao" Put "Yuanxiao" into a pan or metal pot with a layer of oil, steam it in the pot, take it out and sprinkle with soft sugar. The food is fragrant and delicious, and the method is convenient and easy.

Bake "Yuanxiao" Put "Yuanxiao" in a metal plate with bottom oil, put it in the oven, bake it until it is golden and cooked, take it out and put it on the plate, and serve with soft sugar. It tastes sweet and fragrant.

Yuan Xiao is good and Mo Chi is gluttonous.

Pay attention to four points when eating Yuanxiao:

[Heat] Yuanxiao contains a lot of oil and sugar, so it has high heat. Not suitable for patients with overweight or hyperlipidemia, hypertension and diabetes. For gout patients, high-fat food will affect uric acid excretion and increase the possibility of gout. Four sesame dumplings are equivalent to the heat of a bowl of rice, while about 40 dumplings without stuffing are equivalent to the heat of a bowl of rice. So, you can eat jiaozi without stuffing to reduce your calorie intake, or you can burn these calories by walking for an hour.

[Skin] Whether it is Yuanxiao in the north or Tangyuan in the south, the skin is made of glutinous rice flour. Glutinous rice contains more starch, which is very sticky and difficult to digest. People with poor gastrointestinal function, the elderly and children should pay special attention to eating glutinous rice balls to avoid indigestion or dysphagia.

[Stuffing] There are many kinds of jiaozi, some are sweet and some are salty.

Whether sweet or salty, the oil content is high, so lard is often used to make delicious food. In addition, sweet stuffing often makes the blood sugar of diabetics out of control. Foods with high phosphorus content such as peanuts, sesame seeds and bean paste will aggravate the condition of patients with kidney disease, so special attention should be paid.

[Tangyuan] Tangyuan itself is sweet, so there is no need to add sugar to the soup to reduce calorie intake. If it is a small dumpling without stuffing, longan red jujube soup or longan ginger soup can be used instead of sweet soup, which can not only reduce blood sugar, but also have the effect of tonifying the body and dispelling cold.

Salted dumplings can be stuffed with shrimp and vegetables, and supplemented with more calcium and fiber. But be careful not to put too much oil or seasoning in the soup.

These people should not eat Yuanxiao;

[Diabetic patients] Yuanxiao has a high sugar content. If the patient is gluttonous, the blood sugar will rise sharply, which will not only aggravate the condition, but also induce ketoacidosis.

Eating Yuanxiao can increase gastric acid secretion, aggravate the stimulation to ulcer surface, and even induce gastric bleeding and gastric perforation in severe cases.

Yuanxiao is made of glutinous rice flour, which is sticky and difficult to digest. After eating, it will cause stomach pain, bloating, belching, acid reflux and even diarrhea. The gastrointestinal tract of patients with acute gastroenteritis is in a state of congestion and edema. Patients should eat some digestible foods, such as rice soup and lotus root starch. Eating Yuanxiao will increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract.

【 Patients with high fever 】 When they have a fever, the gastrointestinal tract is in a relatively inhibited state, so they should eat some easily digestible food, such as liquid food, otherwise it will aggravate the condition.

[Patients with hypertension, hyperlipidemia and gout] Eating Yuanxiao in these patients is in danger of aggravating their illness, so they should eat less.

At this time, although the patient's appetite has improved, his digestive function is still weak, and eating Yuanxiao too much is not conducive to recovery.

[Old and frail] These people's digestive function declines, and their teeth fall off, especially the elderly people's swallowing reflex is slow, which may cause Yuanxiao to get stuck in their throat because of swallowing too fast, leading to breathing difficulties and even suffocation and death.

[Infants] Children's digestive function is weak, and swallowing reflex is not fully developed. Therefore, when eating Yuanxiao, they can't eat it whole. They should be divided into 1/4, and eat one bite before eating the second bite. Be sure to chew slowly to prevent mistakes.