Why do you want to eat glutinous rice balls during the Spring Festival?

It is intended to wish the whole family reunion and harmony, and express their wish for happiness in the new year. This is a dietary custom during the Spring Festival. During the Spring Festival, jiaozi is generally eaten in the north, and Yuanxiao, rice cakes and noodles are generally eaten in the south.

In Song Dynasty, Yuanxiao was called Zi Yuan. Later, it was called Tangyuan in the south and Yuanxiao in the north. There are different ways to eat Yuanxiao: Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, you eat Yuanxiao, which is cooked and fried. Dumplings are fried into piles of oil. Yuanxiao can be made in two ways, one is solid without stuffing. The other is stuffed, with five flavors: fragrant, spicy, sour, sweet and salty. You can eat soup, stir-fry it or steam it. Sichuanese eat glutinous rice balls, which are usually sweet and contain brown sugar. In recent years, the dumplings made by Lai Tangyuan, a famous snack in Chengdu, use a variety of sweet and delicious fillings, breaking the single material of brown sugar as fillings.