Why do you eat Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month and the origin of eating Yuanxiao?

Yuanxiao originated from King Zhao of Chu in the Spring and Autumn Period. On the fifteenth day of the first month, King Chu Zhao crossed the Yangtze River and saw floating objects on the river, which were sweets with white outside and red inside. King Zhao of Chu asked Confucius, and Confucius said, "This duckweed fruit is also a sign of the resurrection of the Lord." Because this day is the fifteenth day of the first month, on this day in the future, Zhao Haoqi ordered his men to imitate this fruit with flour and cook it with red stuffing made of hawthorn. Since then, it has become a tradition to eat Yuanxiao on the Lantern Festival.

There are also some good things in the stuffing, namely sesame seeds, peanuts and various nuts, as well as red bean paste. Nut raw materials have high nutritional value, and soybean paste also contains a lot of protein and minerals. In contrast, chocolate stuffing has the lowest nutritional value.

It is likely that cocoa butter and chocolate-flavored spices are put in it, and the so-called cream jiaozi has similar problems. As for the glutinous rice balls filled with salty meat, there is too much oil and there is nothing to recommend them.

Yuanxiao and Tangyuan are slightly different. Yuanxiao is made of dry powder, with small stuffing and much powder. It's very hard to cook and hard to harden. Tangyuan is boiled with glutinous rice and wrapped in wet powder. Generally, it has a large filling and is soft and delicate to cook. Originally glutinous rice flour was sticky and difficult to melt. In starch digestion, Yuanxiao is more difficult than Tangyuan. But for people who have difficulty digesting fat, jiaozi is more troublesome.