The Significance of Sending Tangyuan —— Introducing the Significance of Sending Tangyuan

1, the meaning of glutinous rice balls symbolizes that the whole family is round and happy. Tangyuan sounds like reunion. People will express their thoughts for their loved ones and place their best wishes for life by eating it. On the fifteenth day of the first month of the Lantern Festival, jiaozi is generally eaten in the south, but most of the foods in the north have different tastes, but these two foods are similar in appearance and have the same meaning, and both represent the meaning of reunion.

Eating glutinous rice balls on the solstice in winter is especially popular in Jiangnan. There is a folk saying that "eating glutinous rice balls is one year older". Tangyuan is also called tangtuan, and drinking soup on the solstice in winter is also called "winter solstice round" or "winter solstice round" According to the records of Qing dynasty, Jiangnan people made dough with glutinous rice flour, covered with lean meat, apple bean paste, shredded radish and so on. The winter solstice group can be used to worship ancestors or give gifts to relatives and friends.

3. Tangyuan originated in Song Dynasty in China. At that time, Mingzhou developed a novel food, which took black sesame, lard and white sugar as raw materials, ground black sesame into powder, then put lard and white sugar into the mixture one after another and kneaded them into balls to make stuffing, then kneaded them into balls with glutinous rice flour and cooked them.

4. Because this kind of glutinous rice balls will float and be heavy when cooked in a pot, it was originally called floating Zi Yuan. Later, Fu Zi Yuan's name was changed to Tangyuan.