Glutinous rice balls and dumplings, has become the people will eat the Lantern Festival Lantern Festival and glutinous rice balls for the food, but what is? What is the difference between the Lantern Festival and glutinous rice balls? Today, the reporter will take you "taste" the glutinous rice balls culture."South glutinous rice balls" and "North lantern"The North do, is a production-based stuffing. Generally is the mechanism, process the first mix filling, and evenly spread into round slices, let cool then cut into smaller cubes than the ping-pong. And then stuffing into pieces like a big sieve-like machine, the down on the glutinous rice (sticky rice is called the South) powder, machine on the "screen". With the impact of filling in each other to become spherical, Jiang rice noodles with stuffing and surface of the Lantern festival. Lantern glutinous rice powder made of very thin layer, the surface is dry, the next pot glutinous rice powder to absorb moisture.The south is a bit like steamed dumplings, glutinous rice balls. First the glutinous rice flour and water into a corporation, place a few hours it "good" through. Glutinous rice balls filling water content than the Lantern Festival, which is one of the difference between the two. Bao Tangyuan is like a dumpling, but not a rolling pin. Wet glutinous rice noodles viscous strong, had to hand pulling a small wet face, squeeze into a wafer shape. Use chopsticks to pick a stuffing on the rice slices, and then hands side to side made of glutinous rice balls. Do good glutinous rice balls surface smooth and shiny, and some remained a SMB, like peach. Glutinous rice balls skin already contain sufficient moisture, sticky, not easy to save, it is best to do now is to eat. Now with the quick-freezing process, glutinous rice balls will appear in the store.In the past, the Lantern Festival and glutinous rice balls northern and southern people eat on the Lantern Festival has certain difference, but in recent years, because the glutinous rice balls are greatly improved, in the aspects of taste and frozen process than the Lantern Festival Lantern Festival Lantern Festival so, North table has been gradually replaced by the South glutinous rice balls.Their reunion happyFolklore expert said, regardless of the north and south of China, lunar January fifteen this day is a day of family reunion eat lantern. "Lantern" the name of the food, is said to have appeared in the late Song and early Yuan Dynasty, because people are used to eating it on the Lantern Festival night. Color of night is the night of the first fifteen full moon after the Spring Festival, "moon of the year 'round", a full moon shining sky, the world will gather food shaped like a full moon festival, there is a correspondence between the very subtle and natural phenomena, expressed the people family reunion happy mood. Lantern Festival and the Spring Festival New Year cake, dragon boat festival dumplings, are food festival. Eating Yuanxiao symbolizes family reunion like a full moon, the sustenance of the people desire a better life in the future.