Dumplings

People in northern my country have a custom of making dumplings to welcome relatives and friends during festivals. Especially on the first day of the Lunar New Year, when the whole family has finished their New Year greetings, they sit together and chat while making dumplings. They talk about all kinds of things, which attracts laughter and laughter from time to time. It is a lot of fun. "Everyone loves to eat dumplings, and dumplings are especially delicious during New Year's dinner." When people eat this smooth, delicious and delicious water cake, if they know more about its origin, who can not marvel at the long-standing pasta wonders of our ancient civilization!

New Year Cake

During the Spring Festival, many areas in our country pay attention to eating New Year Cake. Rice cakes are available in yellow and white colors, symbolizing gold and silver. Rice cakes are also called "nian rice cakes", which are homophonic with "every year high", which means that people's work and life are improving year by year. Therefore, the ancients wrote a poem about rice cake: "The meaning of rice cake is a little cloudy, white like silver and yellow gold. I look forward to good times and good fortune as the years go by, and I sincerely and silently wish for wealth to come."

Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival , originally meant "the evening of the Lantern Festival", because the main activity of the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month was to watch lanterns and admire the moon at night, and later the name of the festival also evolved into "Lantern Festival". The Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month brings the celebrations that started on New Year's Eve to another climax. On the night of the Lantern Festival, the streets and alleys are decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations. People admire the lanterns, guess lantern riddles and eat the Lantern Festival, which has become a custom that has been passed down from generation to generation.

Zongzi

Zongzi is fragrant and elegant, soft and creamy, with various flavors, and is very popular among people. However, glutinous rice, the raw material for making zongzi, is oily and sticky. Excessive eating can easily cause indigestion, which may lead to symptoms such as increased gastric acid secretion, bloating, abdominal pain, and diarrhea, so you should not be gluttonous.

Mooncakes

It is said that in ancient my country, emperors had the ritual of worshiping the sun in spring and the moon in autumn. Among the people, during the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, there is also the custom of worshiping or offering sacrifices to the moon. "The moons are round in August and fifteenth, and the Mid-Autumn moon cakes are fragrant and sweet." This famous proverb describes the custom of urban and rural people eating moon cakes on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Mooncakes were originally used as sacrifices to worship the moon god. Later, people gradually took the Mid-Autumn moon appreciation and tasting mooncakes as a symbol of family reunion, and gradually mooncakes became festival gifts.

Laba porridge

In addition to the activities of worshiping ancestors and worshiping gods during the Laba Festival, people also have to fight against epidemics and eat "Laba porridge". The history of eating Laba porridge in China has been more than a thousand years. On every Laba day, whether it is the court, government, monastery, or ordinary people's homes, they must make Laba porridge.