What food do you eat in the New Year?

After dinner, go out to pay New Year greetings, from near to far, from noon until after the lights are lit. "On this basis, Tang prison pills are similar to jiaozi, boiled and steamed. The word trough appeared in food in Song Dynasty. Jiaozi was called "flat food" in Yuan Dynasty, probably from Mongolian. Jiaozi in the Ming Dynasty, as Zheng Zitong said, was called jiaozi Bait, Fenjiao, Dumpling and Steamed Noodles Dumpling. In addition, there are names such as water snacks. In the Qing Dynasty, the Beijing flag bearer also called jiaozi "Cooking Cakes". Eating jiaozi on New Year's Day was popular in northern Ming and Qing dynasties. For example, in Wanping County, a suburb of Beijing, in Wanbu Miscellaneous Notes written by Shen Bang during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, he said: "If you make a flat food on New Year's Day, you will live a long life. "During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the records of Quwo County, Shanxi Province recorded:" Two scales of grain are guaranteed, and husbands are invited to compete for fun. The word "flat food" was handed down from the Yuan Dynasty.

Jiaozi stick figure

2, rice cakes

The rice cake is also called sticky cake, which means it gets taller every year. It is made of glutinous rice in the south and sticky millet in the north. Rice cakes have a long history. Rice cakes in Han Dynasty are called rice cakes, cakes, bait and cakes. The recipe of "white cocoon sugar" for making rice cakes was found in Historical Records in the 6th century A.D., and the method of making rice cakes by grinding rice into powder was recorded in Qi Yaomin's Book in the Northern Dynasty. Eating rice cakes on New Year's Day was very popular in Ming and Qing Dynasties, especially in the south. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Volume II of Scenery of the Imperial Capital recorded that on the first day of the first month, "I was excited to wash, eat jujube cakes and eat rice cakes every day". In Jiajing, Hebei Province in the north, Wei County recorded that local people ate "steamed mutton cakes".

Rice cake stick figure