Xiaogan Lantern Cuisine
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On the fifteenth day of the first month, the Lantern Festival, playing lantern lion dance people are in a tide, the family does not sit idle when they see the moon, and the lights are not seen everywhere.
People use this kind of hilarity and joy to announce: farewell to the Reunion of the Spring Festival and the labor of welcoming the New Year.
Every year, in addition to lantern play, lion dance, colorful lotus boat paddling, riddle guessing, lantern viewing activities,
There are also special delicacies, the most important one is to eat tangyuan and moon half rice.
On the fifteenth day, every household must cook a bowl of rice balls and make a pot of moon and a half to meet the Lantern Festival.
In the past, the tangyuan we often ate was glutinous rice ground into a pulp, drained water, kneaded into a round ball, boiled in water and eaten with sugar, sweet and crispy,
At present, the tangyuan is very small at home, most of them are the good tangyuan sold in the market, with a wide variety of varieties and different tastes, which are mouth-watering.
Speaking of tangyuan, there is also a beautiful historical legend story.
According to legend, during the Western Han Dynasty, Dongfang Shuo was serving as an official in the dynasty, and he was sad to see a palace girl named Tang Yuan who had been unable to see her parents for a long time.
Dongfang Shuo was very sympathetic, wrote a red note, and asked someone to send it to Emperor Wu of Han.
Emperor Wu of Han took the note and looked at it, only to see that it read: "Chang'an is robbing, burning the emperor que, fifteen days of fire, flaming red supper night." ”
The emperor was shocked when he saw it, and he quickly invited the resourceful Dongfang Shuo, who pretended to think,
He said to the emperor: "I heard that the Vulcan King loves to eat tangyuan the most, and the tangyuan girls in the palace don't often make tangyuan for you, long live the incense offering, order the Kyoto family to make tangyuan, and then send the courtiers to hang lights all over the city on the fifteenth night, light cannons and smoke, as if the city is on fire, so that it will be hidden from the Jade Emperor".
If it was a lively night, Chang'an City was indeed safe and sound.
This night, the lanterns are written with the word "Tangyuan", the tangyuan girl's parents entered the city and saw the word tangyuan on the lantern and called, and the tangyuan girl saw her parents who had been away for a long time.
Emperor Wu of Han was therefore happy that the night was safe and uneventful, and ordered that every year on the fifteenth day of the first month, tangyuan would be made for the Vulcan King.
Tangyuan girl is also famous, people call Tangyuan girl Lantern, the fifteenth day of the first month is also called Lantern Festival.
Although this is a historical legend, it not only tells the origin of the Lantern Festival,
What is more worthy of praise is that Dongfang Shuo loves the people like a son, not only cares about the lives of the people, but also cares about the ideological feelings of the people's daughters.
In Xiaogan, in addition to eating tangyuan during the Lantern Festival,
Also eat a kind of Lantern delicacy - moon and half a rice,
There is a good saying in the countryside: "Eat half a moon and a half, and go to the field to plant crops." ”
I eat a few every year during the Lantern Festival.
It is a very ordinary and special home-cooked food, it can be locally sourced, depending on the material, roughly divided into flour moon half rice and rice flour moon half rice, my mother made us more rice flour moon half rice.
The rice noodles made of rice are ground into rice noodles, fried in a pot and half cooked, mixed with hot water to form balls, fried tofu, fried tofu balls, carrots, bacon that have not been eaten in the New Year, chopped together, plus onions and garlic, oil and salt, chopped pepper and other condiments to make a filling, wrapped with rice flour balls, made into a fist-sized oval rice ball, placed in the pot steamed, you can eat.
My family is many, my mother has to do dozens of storage every time, if you want to eat it, you can eat it on the kang, fried it, and eat it on the fire, all of which are spicy and delicious, and have a unique flavor.
Moon half a day is not only a kind of food that suits the scene, but also a declaration and mobilization after the year.
At the beginning and end of the year, the Spring Festival has been busy for nearly a month, family gatherings, visiting relatives and friends, inviting guests and gifts, leisurely for a long time, it is time to work.
Obtain the happiness and happiness of the family, realize the dream of a strong country of the motherland,
Not by the Divine Emperor,
Nor is it the blessing of a few text messages that is realized,
It is to rely on our hands to create, to work hard,
We must show the strength of the tiger in the year of the tiger, do our own things well, and achieve the new year and new goals.
Happiness does not lose hardship, suffering does not lose inspiration, create family happiness, welcome the sky and shine In China.
