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Tangyuan is traditionally eaten during the Lantern Festival, which falls on the 15th day of the first month of a lunar new year, which is the first full moon. The festival falls each year on a day in February in the Gregorian calendar. [1] People eat tangyuan for good luck and hopes of filling their lives with fortune and joy. [1]
Traditionally, the Dongzhi Festival is a time for families to eat together. [8] One activity that occurs during these get-togethers (especially in the Asia and in Overseas Asian communities) is the making and eating of tangyuan (湯圓) or balls of glutinous rice, which symbolize reunion. [10]
Eaten during the Lantern Festival, tangyuan '湯圓' (Southern China, Taiwan and Southeast Asia) or yuanxiao '元宵' (Northern China) is a glutinous rice ball typically filled with sweet red bean paste, sesame paste, or peanut butter. [3]
Three Yuanxiao on a Chinese porcelain spoon. Yuanxiao (Chinese: 元宵; pinyin: yuánxiāo; Wade–Giles: Yuan 2 hisao 1; lit. 'first night') are dumplings of glutinous rice flour, filled with sesame or peanut powder and sugar, or sweet red bean paste, eaten in a soup during the Lantern Festival, the fifteenth day of the Chinese New Year.
[58] [59] Dairy products, common in the Tang dynasty, became associated with foreign cultures, which explains the absence of cheese and milk in their diet. [60] Beef was also rarely eaten, since the bull was an important draft animal. [60] The main diet of the lower classes remained rice, pork, and salted fish. [61]
The world's earliest eating establishments recognizable as restaurants in the modern sense first emerged in Song dynasty China during the 11th and 12th centuries. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Street food became an integral aspect of Chinese food culture during the Tang dynasty , and the street food culture of much of Southeast Asia was established by workers ...
Tangyuan or Tang Yuan, or variation may refer to: Tangyuan (food) (汤圆), Chinese food made from glutinous rice flour; Tangyuan County (汤原县), of Jiamusi, Heilongjiang, China; Tangyuan, Shandong (唐园镇), a town in Linqing, Shandong, China; Tang Yuan (唐渊, born 1989), Chinese soccer player
Jiuniang 酒酿 -- fermented sweet rice that is slightly alcoholic; can be eaten on its own or used as a ingredient of other desserts (e.g. egg tong sui, soup of tangyuan) JingBaJian 京八件 -- a series of eight Chinese desserts originated in the imperial kitchen of the Qing dynasty