the Lantern Festival is a traditional festival inherited from ancient China. Now the most essential thing to celebrate the Lantern Festival every year is to watch lanterns and eat the Lantern Festival. So when did the custom of eating Yuanxiao begin? In which dynasty did eating Yuanxiao begin? This article brings you the origin time of eating Yuanxiao on the Lantern Festival and the matters needing attention. Let's have a look.
The Lantern Festival originated in the Han Dynasty. It is said that it was set up by Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty to commemorate 'Ping Lu'. After the death of Liu Ying, Emperor Hui of the Han Dynasty, empress Lu usurped power, and the LV clan controlled the government. After the death of empress Lu, Zhou Bo, Chen Ping and others eliminated the forces of empress Lu and established Liu Heng as Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty. Because the day to quell zhulv was the 15th of the first month. Since then, on the night of the 15th of the first month every year, Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty had to go out of the palace and enjoy with the people in commemoration. And set the 15th day of the first month as the Lantern Festival. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the sacrificial activities of "Taiyi God" were held on the 15th day of the first month. Sima Qian listed the Lantern Festival as a major festival in the Taichu calendar.
Chinese people have the custom of eating Yuanxiao on the Lantern Festival. According to folk legend, Yuanxiao originated from King Zhao of Chu in the spring and Autumn period. On the 15th of one January, King Zhao of Chu passed the Yangtze River and saw floating debris on the river, which was a sweet food with white outside and red inside. King Zhao of Chu asked Confucius for advice. Confucius said, 'this duckweed fruit is also a sign of the revival of the Lord'. The Lantern Festival is the same as the New Year cake of the Spring Festival and the zongzi of the Dragon Boat Festival. Eating Yuanxiao symbolizes family reunion like the full moon and reposes people's good wishes for future life. Lantern Festival is called 'Tangyuan', 'Yuanzi', 'fuyuanzi' and 'Shuiyuan' in the south. It is made of glutinous rice, either solid or filled. Fillings include bean paste, sugar, hawthorn and so on, which can be boiled, fried, steamed and fried.
Precautions for eating Yuanxiao
Breakfast should not be eaten
People's gastrointestinal function is the weakest when they get up in the morning, and most of the outer skin of Yuanxiao is made of glutinous rice, which is sticky and difficult to digest. Therefore, eating Yuanxiao for breakfast is prone to indigestion, which leads to pantothenic acid, heartburn and other conditions, affecting the life of the day.
Diabetic patients should have collocation with some vegetables.
Because most ordinary rice and noodles are amylose structure, and most of the starch in glutinous rice is branched structure, its glucose molecular chain has a large contact area with water and amylase, which is easy to be decomposed by amylase and quickly release a single glucose molecule to be absorbed by the human body. In this way, glutinous rice is easier to rapidly increase blood glucose than ordinary rice and noodles.
However, this does not mean that diabetic patients can not touch the Lantern Festival. Although eating alone has a high sugar index, but when eating a variety of foods mixed together, the glycemic index will vary from eating alone to the Lantern Festival, but it will be much lower than eating alone. Therefore, when eating diabetes, people with diabetes need to take collocation with other foods, such as some vegetables, to lower the glycemic index. You can use a few Yuanxiao as your staple food to relieve your greed. Don't be greedy.
At present, there are many kinds of lanterns that are suitable for diabetics in the market, such as salty rice dumplings, or fillings without sugar, but sweet dumplings. It is understood that at present there are businessmen making some lanterns made of sago or other ingredients, adding pectin to make it sticky, and can also be a choice for diabetics.
Patients with ulcer disease
Patients with ulcer disease eat too sweet food, which is easy to cause increased gastric acid secretion and aggravate the stimulation of ulcer surface. Sweet Yuanxiao should not be eaten more. Patients with ulcers should pay attention when eating Yuanxiao: if it is sweet yuanxiao, sugar should not be added to the soup; If it is a small dumpling without stuffing, the soup can be seasoned with red dates, medlar, longan and so on; You can also choose salty dumplings on the market, such as barbecued dumplings and plum dried vegetables.