The chubby body reveals a lustrous luster,
What do you want from a rich inner body,
On the Lantern Festival, everyone wants to "favor her" to her,
put it in your mouth,
The taste of home overflows in my chest...
The Lantern Festival has been a lively festival since ancient times.
Eating glutinous rice balls and enjoying lanterns on this day,
It is a life ritual passed down by the Chinese.
They all say "Southern Tangyuan, North Lantern Festival"
Then let's take a look
How "extremely enchanting" are the dumplings in the south,
To tempt the taste buds of diners.
How "made" are the dumplings in the south?
After reading it, we ate it together!
For Southerners, everything is a filling
During the Lantern Festival, the south eats dumplings and the north eats the Lantern Festival.
Not only are the two different names, but they are also different.
The glutinous rice balls are "wrapped", and the skin is smooth and sticky; the yuanxiao is "shaken", and the skin is dry and soft.
Southerners eat glutinous rice balls in a variety of ways. For them, everything can be stuffing.
Who says dumplings have to be sweet?
In the tangyuan world in the south, "little fresh meat" accounts for one-third of the world.
Shanghai meat dumplings, Guizhou Xingyi chicken dumplings, Sichuan heart lung dumplings, etc. are all "every family is sweet, only me is salty and fresh".
On February 14, Ele.me released the "2022 Lantern Festival Tangyuan Consumption Trend Report", showing that Shanghai is the representative city of salty dumplings, gathering 31% of the country's fresh meat dumpling shops.
The Jiangnan area has the custom of "eating wontons in summer and eating groups in winter".
In Changzhou, Jiangsu, every family is used to making dumplings during the Spring Festival, which means auspicious reunion.
On the day of the Lantern Festival, the delicious shepherd's purse dumplings are the main dish for the local people to eat dumplings.
Watching a pot of bulging fat dumplings rise and fall in boiling water, put them in a bowl, say "Happy Lantern Festival" to the family, and take a bite. The best delicacy for the heart.
People from Jiangnan who love dumplings have also made this delicious food an internet celebrity. Over the past 20 years, Changzhou Yuanwaiyuan dumplings have made this hometown flavor into a famous snack brand in Jiangsu, which has become a touch in the hearts of wanderers in foreign countries. Nostalgia.
Inheriting the tradition of hand-made, the Tangyuan factory in the garden outside the garden also ushered in the peak sales season for the Lantern Festival, sending 200,000 dumplings to all parts of the country every day.
With the continuous innovation of eating methods and flavors of glutinous rice balls, various "niche" flavors have also become the main trend of glutinous rice dumplings consumption during this year's Lantern Festival.
New flavors of glutinous rice balls such as durian and chocolate are also gaining popularity.
Many milk tea brands have taken advantage of the situation to launch a variety of flavors of "Tangyuan Milk Tea" to cater to the consumption habits of young people.
Tangyuan can also make diners have fun.
In Nanjing, Jiangsu, "foodies" use matcha powder and other materials to make glutinous rice balls in the shape of Yuhua stones.
What is the soup dumpling in the eyes of the ancients?
The poet Jiang Baishi wrote in a poem "Song of the Lantern Festival": "The distinguished guests hooked the curtains to look at the imperial street, and the treasures in the city came at once." This "treasures in the city" refers to the Lantern Festival.
"Qing Barnyard Class Notes" describes the name and practice of Yuanxiao and Tangyuan: "Tangyuan, one is called dumpling. Northerners call it Yuanxiao, and it must be eaten on the evening of Yuanxiao (the evening of the 15th day of the first lunar month in the Yellow Calendar). There is. Crushed rice is made of flour to make it. The powder is put into water, precipitated to make it slippery, and it is made of powdered rice balls. There are sweet and salty fillings, and there are no fillings, which are called solid rice balls."
"Luanxiao Boiled Fu Yuanzi seems to have never made this sitting room into four rhymes." It is said that the Lantern Festival is "beads floating in turbid water", which symbolizes the completion of everything. In people's hearts, even in the dark cloudy sky, the Lantern Festival is like a bright star in the dark cloud. , brings people good hope: "Today I know what is going on, reunion and everything will be the same. The soup officials are looking for the old taste, and the kitchen maid is surprised by the new work. The stars are shining in the dark clouds, and the beads are floating in the turbid water. Family style."
Tangyuan is delicious, but you need to eat it in moderation
The outer skin of glutinous rice balls is made of glutinous rice flour, which is highly viscous and difficult to digest. After eating on an empty stomach, it can cause stomach pain, bloating, belching, acid regurgitation and even diarrhea, aggravating the burden on the gastrointestinal tract, causing indigestion or aggravating gastroesophageal reflux, etc. People with poor function and prone to acid reflux should eat as little as possible.
Yang Qin, director of the Department of Spleen and Stomach Diseases of Nanjing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, reminded that when making glutinous rice balls, you can add some stomach-nourishing and spleen-boosting ingredients to the glutinous rice balls to reduce the discomfort of sticky rice, such as yam and taro, which have the effect of nourishing the stomach.
In addition, kneading the dough with soft tofu can relieve the discomfort caused by the stimulation of gastric acid secretion by the sweet and greasy rice balls.
Tangyuan contains sugar and calories. The fillings are mainly sugar, fruit and nuts, and the fillings generally contain more oil.
Therefore, people with high blood lipids, high blood sugar, and weak gastrointestinal function need to be extra careful and not greedy.
People with swallowing disorders are not recommended to eat glutinous rice balls, which may cause throat jams due to rapid swallowing, leading to difficulty in breathing and even death from suffocation. The emptying time is prolonged, making it difficult to digest and absorb foods like glutinous rice balls.
So the elderly try not to eat dumplings.
In addition, it is not recommended for infants and young children under 2 years old to eat. The dumplings are usually made of glutinous rice.
Glutinous rice contains a lot of starch, which is highly viscous and difficult to digest. For infants and young children whose gastrointestinal function is not yet mature, eating glutinous rice balls will cause indigestion.
The glutinous rice balls in the mouth are soft and glutinous, both salty and sweet.
The taste of reunion in the heart is happiness.
Eating glutinous rice balls is a life ritual on the Lantern Festival.
Every bite is a hope for reunion,
Concern for family.
What kind of dumplings do you like to eat?
Say it in the comments section!
Author: Tang Juan Xu Shanshan