Tang-yuan（sweet dumplings）

The sweet dumplings are also the Lantern Festival, every year lunar calendar on first lunar month 15, Spring Festival just crossed, welcomes was China's traditional festival--Lantern Festival. first lunar month is lunar calendar in January, the ancient said that the night is “the night”, therefore said that in first lunar month 15 are the Lantern Festival. First lunar month 15 is in one year night of the first month circle, is also beginning has come again, the earth rejuvenation night, the people perform to celebrate regarding this, is also congratulates the early spring the extension. Lantern Festival is called “the lantern festival”.

The folk Lantern Festival has eaten Lantern Festival's custom. Lantern Festival is made by the glutinous rice, either solid, either belt stuffing. The stuffing has the kidney bean paste, the white sugar, the Chinese hawthorn, each kind of fruit material and so on, edible when boils, fries, steams, explodes all may. At first, the people are called this kind of food “the sweet flour dumpling”, afterward was called “the dumplings” or “the sweet dumplings”, these names “the reunion” the pronunciation was close, takes meaning of the reunion, the symbolic whole family reunites, harmonious happy, the people also fondly remembered the family member who by this left, has reposed to the future life happy desire.

Eats Lantern Festival in first lunar month 15 to eat the Lantern Festival, “the Lantern Festival” takes food, is also long-standing in our country. Song Dynasty, the folk namely popular one kind Lantern Festival eats novel food. This kind of food, calls “floats the Yuan”, saying that after most early “the Lantern Festival”, the businessman also gives the euphemistic name of “the silver piece”. Lantern Festival namely " the sweet dumplings " take the white sugar, the rose, the sesame seed, the kidney bean paste, Huang Gui, the walnut kernel, the kernel, the jujube paste and so on as the stuffing, becomes the circular with the glutinous rice flour package, may eat meat may the element, the flavor vary. But Tang Zhu, fries in oil, the steamed food, has reunion content meaning. Shanxi's sweet dumplings are not the package, but " rolls in the glutinous rice flour " becomes, or boils Si Huo to fry in oil, the hot friendly fire, reunites.

Makes the Lantern Festival: 1. material: Glutinous rice flour, peanut butter, sesame jam, red bean putty, sugar 2. procedure: (1) sweetens the stuffing makes frozen good, truncation Cheng Datou subblock. as soon as (2) the water moistens the stuffing with big melon fence Sheng Zhuowang. (3) pours into has in the glutinous rice flour big screen to swing abundantly. after (4) treats the stuffing moistens the full glutinous rice flour, returns to the big melon fence to get wet but actually again. (5) repeatedly three, four times, Lantern Festival by Fang Eryuan then (6) in different stuffing Lantern Festival symbol. note: Another kind makes Lantern Festival's method is wraps in the stuffing the dehydration pressing in the glutinous rice thick liquid, actually this method and rubs the sweet dumplings to be the same, is south China's procedure.