A case of civilized and healthy behavior of diet in the family

Eating New Year's cakes is one of the customs of China people. The homonym of New Year's cakes is Niangao, which is a festive food for the Spring Festival in many parts of China's north and south. It has the meaning of praying for a bumper harvest, longevity and longevity.

According to legend, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Wu Zixu helped He Lv seize the throne, and helped him to become strong and prosperous throughout the year. He Lv also ordered Wu Zixu to build "He Lv City" to show his merits. After the completion of the city wall, the prince of Wu feasted all day without asking about state affairs. Don't listen to Wu Zixu admonition. At this time, Wu Zixin was determined to remonstrate with death. Before going to court, he told his family that if anything happens to me, you can dig three feet under Xiangmen City in the future when you are in a panic, and you can get food. Later, Wu Zixu's remonstrance was abandoned and he was given to commit suicide. After Wu Zixu committed suicide, the State of Wu was destroyed by the State of Yue. Since then, wars have continued, and He Lv has been starved. Wu Zixu's family remembered his will, so they went to Xiangmen to tear down the wall and dig the ground, and found that the city brick was made of glutinous rice flour. And these glutinous rice noodles saved the people of the whole city. Since then, every household has used glutinous rice flour to make rice cakes to worship Wu Zixu during the Chinese New Year.

rice cake style: square yellow and white rice cakes, symbolizing gold and silver; There are also strip-shaped Ningbo and Fuzhou rice cakes, which imitate silver bars in shape; They all mean to make a fortune in the New Year in shapes.

classification of rice cakes: the northern rice cakes are mainly sweet. Beijingers like to eat red date rice cakes, hundred fruit rice cakes and white rice cakes made of glutinous rice or yellow rice. Hebei people like to add jujube, red bean and mung bean to the rice cake and steam it together. In northern Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and other places, it is customary to eat fried rice cakes with yellow rice flour during the New Year, and some of them are stuffed with bean paste and jujube paste. Shandong people steam rice cakes with yellow rice and red dates. Southern rice cakes are both sweet and salty; The rice cakes in Suzhou and Ningbo are made of stem rice and have a light taste. Besides steaming and frying, you can also fry in slices or cook soup. Sweet rice cakes are made of glutinous rice flour with sugar, lard, rose, sweet-scented osmanthus, mint and vegetable paste. Among them, the radish cake and taro cake in Guangdong are made differently: first, the radish or taro is chopped, mixed with fried bacon, dried shrimps and mushrooms, and then steamed with rice balls. Rice cakes are not only easy to store and eat, but also varied in eating methods. Steaming, boiling, frying, simmering, frying, frying, roasting and stewing have different flavors and characteristics.

note: the main raw materials of rice cakes are glutinous rice and millet flour, which are high in calories and are food to increase physical strength and endurance. However, due to the high viscosity of starch in rice cakes after gelatinization, it is easy to cause indigestion if you eat too much, so it is not advisable for the elderly, the young and the weak to eat more prickly heat and twist.