What are the traditional Chinese New Year foods in southern China?

1, rice cake. In the south, the indispensable new year's goods during the Spring Festival are rice cakes. Even if you don't eat, you should put a piece at home to show goodwill. There are three colors of rice cakes: red, yellow and white, which symbolize gold and silver, implying that people's work and life are improving year by year.

2, sugar rings. Sugar rings are made of glutinous rice flour. To celebrate, pine water is sometimes added to dye them red, and they are fried in oil pan until they are golden brown, which also means that the house is full of gold. Sugar ring has a long history and is a kind of powder fruit necessary for Chinese New Year.

3. Tangyuan. Most southern families are used to getting together to eat the traditional customs of jiaozi on the morning of the Spring Festival. It is said that Yuanxiao symbolizes family reunion, and eating Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month is the same custom all over the country.

4. oil angle. Oil angle will be bombed in the New Year. In order to be as oily and rich as that wok in the coming year, I took the meaning of "wok". The size of oil angle indicates a safe family. Oil angle's symbolic meaning: it looks like a "purse", that is, a wallet.

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Spring rolls, also known as spring cakes, spring plates and pancakes, are traditional delicacies eaten by China people at the beginning of spring, and they are very popular all over China. Spring rolls contain good wishes for the New Year, which is a good omen for the Spring Festival.

In some areas in the south, we don't eat jiaozi during the Spring Festival, but eat spring rolls. In ancient times, in the spring, the daily bread was very thin, also called pancakes. Eating with several kinds of lettuce is called "spring plate". At the beginning of spring every year, we eat spring cakes, which is called "biting spring".

Spring cakes are pancakes baked with flour and usually eaten with rolled vegetables. The side dishes of the rolls are different. They are called spring cakes in Beijing, Beijing roast duck in Beijing and roast goose with honey sauce in Guangdong.

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