What to eat in the Spring Festival? Many people attach great importance to the first meal of the Lunar New Year. Although they eat in different ways, they have only one purpose, that is, to hope that the new year will be safe and auspicious.

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There are many kinds in jiaozi. You can make it yourself at home or buy it frozen in the supermarket. There are all kinds of jiaozi in the supermarket, big, small, sweet and salty, but jiaozi in the Spring Festival is basically sweetened in the middle. It is also a good choice to pack jiaozi at home. There are many ways to package jiaozi, and they are relatively simple. You can buy glutinous rice flour, sesame stuffing and sugar to cook at home. Jiaozi, the breakfast on New Year's Day, must have a more special meaning. It means: everything goes well and the whole family is happy.

New Year cake; rice cake

Eating rice cakes during the Spring Festival is also the custom of Shaoxing people. They eat rice cakes to wish their lives "higher every year". There are many ways to eat rice cakes, including sugar rice cakes, soup rice cakes and fried rice cakes, but it is nothing more than homophonic "getting higher every year", which means getting better every year.

zongzi

Shaoxing people are used to making zongzi during the Spring Festival. People in Shaoxing generally use bamboo leaves (also called zongzi leaves), which also have a fragrant taste after cooking. The zongzi wrapped in zongzi leaves has a strong fragrance and tastes very pleasant. There are many delicious fresh meat, egg yolk and chestnut zongzi besides zongzi wrapped in pure glutinous rice and zongzi with cowpea or red bean added to glutinous rice. Eating zongzi on New Year's Day means that life is sweet and crops are plentiful.

Chinese dumpling

Eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day is the custom of northerners, but now many Shaoxing people have joined the ranks of eating jiaozi. Eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve means "good luck in the coming year", while eating jiaozi on New Year's Day means good luck in the coming year.

noodles

Long noodles, also known as longevity noodles, are eaten on the first day of New Year's Day, wishing you a hundred years of longevity. Many old people still keep this custom.

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In Shaoxing urban and rural areas, when visiting relatives and friends during the Spring Festival, the host will always make you a cup of sugar tea as soon as you enter the door, and don't forget to put two dates in the sugar tea, which means sweet and sweet.

What do you eat in China during the Spring Festival?

Hubei: Hubei Tuanfeng People's Congress drinks chicken soup on New Year's Day, symbolizing "peace". In addition, the main labor force in the family must eat chicken feet, which means "grabbing money in the New Year"; Young students want to eat chicken wings, which means "spread your wings and fly high"; Family members eat chicken bones, which means "getting ahead". Jingzhou, Shashi area, the first meal to eat eggs, meaning "true, auspicious." In case of guests, you should eat two half-boiled "poached eggs". You can see the yolk through the egg white, which means "gold is covered with silver, gold is covered with silver, and gold is covered with silver".

Jiangxi: In Poyang area, eating jiaozi and fish on the first day of the New Year means "making friends" and "having more than one year". Some people put candy, flowers and silver coins in jiaozi, which means "sweet life", "live forever" and "get rich in the new year".

Guangdong: In some areas, we should eat "grain for ten thousand years" during the Spring Festival, that is, we should prepare enough food for our families for three days during the Spring Festival, which means "don't worry about eating and drinking". In Chaozhou, the first meal is often "rotten round" fried with rice flour and dried radish, and "five-fruit soup" boiled with solid fruit and lotus seeds, which means "life is sweet and has a long history".

Guangxi: Zhuang people eat sweets on the first day of the Lunar New Year, which means that life in the New Year is beautiful and sweet.

Fujian: Minnan People's Congress eats noodles on the first day of the lunar new year, which means "every year is old", and sausages, preserved eggs and ginger are eaten around Zhangzhou, which means "the days are getting more and more prosperous".

Anhui: In some places, everyone should take a bite of raw radish at the first meal of the Spring Festival, which is called "biting spring", which can "sterilize and prevent diseases and make the New Year auspicious".

Guanzhong and Henan: On the first day of New Year's Day, some places eat rice cooked by jiaozi with noodles, which are called "gold thread runs through gold ingots" and "silver thread hangs gourds".

Taiwan Province Province: Eat "long-year dishes" on the first day of the New Year. This is a kind of mustard with long stems and leaves and bitter taste. Some even add slender vermicelli to dishes, meaning "endless, immortal".