What to eat during the Lantern Festival? Recommended traditional food during the 2017 Lantern Festival

The Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese festival. In addition to admiring lanterns and guessing lantern riddles, what other traditional foods are eaten on the Lantern Festival? Next, let’s take a look together.

What traditional food do you eat during the Lantern Festival?

sweet dumpling

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, during the Lantern Festival, the most indispensable thing is to eat glutinous rice balls. The custom of eating glutinous rice balls on the Lantern Festival originated in the Han Dynasty in China. At that time, glutinous rice balls were called "Floating Yuanzi" and businessmen also called them "Yuanbao". Tangyuan is made of glutinous rice and can be solid or filled. The pronunciation of "tangyuan" is similar to "reunion", so eating tangyuan on the Lantern Festival symbolizes family reunion.

dumpling

In Henan Province, there is a Lantern Festival custom of "flat dumplings on the 15th day and round dumplings on the 16th day", so dumplings are a must-eat on the 15th day of the first lunar month in northern China. Dumplings are a folk food with a long history and are very popular among the people. There is a folk saying that "nothing tastes better than dumplings."

lettuce

In Guangdong, the most popular thing to do during the Lantern Festival is to eat lettuce and cook it with pastries. Because the name of lettuce is homophonic with “making money”, it is also a traditional food that must be eaten during the Lantern Festival.