What do you eat during the Spring Festival?

Lunar New Year can be said to be the most important traditional festival in China, so there must be all kinds of delicious food during this period. Let's see what traditional food we should eat during the Spring Festival.

1, creature

The Beijing proverb "delicious but not as good as jiaozi" is widely welcomed by ordinary people. Jiaozi is also called "jiaozi". Because of its slightly flat shape, it is called "flat food" in some places. Multi-purpose leather bag stuffing, cooked by boiling or frying, frying, steaming and other methods. Jiaozi, which originated in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, is a folk food with a long history. During the Spring Festival, jiaozi is an indispensable delicacy.

2, rice cakes

In fact, the most important thing to eat in the Spring Festival is some auspicious meanings, such as rice cakes. Almost all parts of the country use sticky rice noodles and yellow rice noodles to make sticky cakes (also called rice cakes), which means that most of the food eaten during the Spring Festival is prepared before the festival, and most northerners eat steamed bread. In the south, rice was washed a few days ago, which is called wannian grain rice, which means there is surplus grain every year. Rice cakes are also a must-have food for Chinese New Year. There are many kinds of cereals for making rice cakes, and the practices vary from place to place. Among them, the water mill sticky cake in Jiangnan is the most famous. In the north, people eat white cakes or sticky cakes made of yellow rice, while ethnic minorities in the southwest are used to eating glutinous rice Baba.

3. Lantern Festival

On the fifteenth day of the first month, Yuanxiao is eaten in the north and Tangyuan is eaten in the south. Yuanxiao was very popular in the Song Dynasty. It was originally called "Floating Zi Yuan", later called "Yuanxiao", and merchants also called it "Yuanbao". Usually, raw materials such as white sugar, roses, sesame seeds, red bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnut kernels, nuts and jujube paste are used as stuffing, and glutinous rice flour is wrapped in a circle. Meat can be vegetarian and have different flavors. It can be boiled, fried and steamed, which means reunion and happy life.

4. Fish

Auspicious language should be used in New Year's diet. Jiangnan people make tea for their guests in the New Year, and put two olives on the tea tray or bowl cover, which is called "treasure-free tea". When eating in the New Year, there must be cooking, saying that eating "kissing hot"; Be sure to eat bean sprouts, because the shape of bean sprouts is like "Ruyi"; You must eat fish heads for every meal, but you can't eat them all. This is the so-called "leftover fish".

5. New Year's Eve dinner

When it comes to what traditional food to eat during the Spring Festival, the first thing that comes to mind is the New Year's Eve dinner. The slower you eat on New Year's Eve, the better. You should try everything. There are several dishes that are essential in the New Year's Eve because of their auspicious meanings, such as: [Longevity dish] (mustard) should be eaten one by one from beginning to end, so that the first year of the year can last for a long time; [Vegetable head] indicates good color; "Whole chicken" symbolizes the family portrait ("chicken" and "home" are homophonic); Eating "clam" is homophonic with "fat" to get its fat meaning; Eating fish balls, shrimp balls and meatballs means [three yuan and] (that is, being the top scholar, meeting yuan and solving yuan). Only fish can't be eaten on the table, which means more than a year.

Why do you want to eat jiaozi during the Spring Festival?

It means happy reunion and good luck.

Eat jiaozi during the Spring Festival. First of all, jiaozi is shaped like an ingot. People eat jiaozi in the New Year and take the sound of "the way to make money"; Secondly, jiaozi has stuffing, which is convenient for people to put all kinds of auspicious things into stuffing and place people's hopes for the new year.

According to the ancient custom, jiaozi is eaten after the Spring Festival sacrifice. During the Chinese New Year, it is of special significance to keep the bread of the old year and eat it when you say goodbye, that is, when you are a child. It means "making friends at the age of two", "making friends at the age of four" and "Bao jiaozi" are homophonic, which means happy reunion and good luck, and indicates good luck in the new year.

The origin of new year's eve dinner

Family dinner on New Year's Eve is commonly known as New Year's Eve, also known as reunion dinner. At this time, the family should be as complete as possible, and many family members who are far away from home always have to get home before the New Year's Eve, so this New Year's Eve is also called "the Year of the Group".

As early as the Han Dynasty, China had the custom of having a reunion dinner on New Year's Eve. In the old society, because of the low standard of living, we couldn't make a rich diet at ordinary times, so we could only improve it during the New Year. Therefore, the quality and content of the New Year's Eve dinner are higher, and the food should be as rich as possible. First of all, it is to satisfy your desire. Second, this feeling of fullness indicates that you will have plenty of food and clothing in the coming year.

On this day, people will get together for dinner. The annual reunion dinner shows the mutual respect and care among family members in China, which makes the relationship between families closer.