Eat rice cake

Some places in the south pay attention to eating rice cakes during the Spring Festival, which is high year by year, symbolizing a bumper harvest year by year and a higher realm. Southerners eat rice cakes during the Spring Festival, especially people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. The rice cake, also known as "rice cake", is homophonic with "high year after year", which means that people's work and life are improving year by year. Shanghainese often stir-fry rice cakes during the Spring Festival, and like to put a little sugar in condiments to make them sweeter.

As a common food on New Year's Day, rice cakes have a long history in China. There are many kinds of New Year's cakes in China, including the white one in the north, the yellow one for farmers in Saibei, the Shuimo one in the south of the Yangtze River, and the red turtle one in Taiwan Province Province. Rice cakes have different flavors from north to south. There are steamed rice cakes and fried rice cakes in the north, both of which are sweet; In addition to steaming and frying, southern rice cakes are also sliced and cooked in soup, which is both sweet and salty. You can make them into any flavor you want.

Eat hot pot.

Hot pot and fish are usually eaten on New Year's Eve in the south. Hot pot is boiling, steaming, warm and sultry, and thriving. Many people like to eat hot pot during the Spring Festival. On the one hand, all kinds of delicious food can be eaten in hot pot, regardless of meat and vegetables. Secondly, eating hot pot in the New Year means thriving and winning a good prize. Many hot pot restaurants specially offer Spring Festival packages during the Spring Festival, and families get together to eat a special hot pot, which is warm and harmonious, giving people the impression that the atmosphere is better.

Spring Festival couplets

It evolved from the "peach stalk" in the Warring States period more than two thousand years ago. According to Huainanzi, peach characters (peach stalks) are carved from peach wood. It is engraved with a spell that destroys happiness, and it changes every year. Meng Changjun, the Emperor of Shu after the Five Dynasties, had a whim during the Spring Festival and asked people to slice peach trees. He wrote a couplet on it: "Welcome to Qing Yu in the New Year and celebrate the festival in Changchun". This is the earliest Spring Festival couplets in China. As for the official birth of the name Spring Festival couplets, it was in the Ming Dynasty. After Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, made Jinling his capital, he issued an edict on New Year's Eve: "When the official family visits the New Year, they must write a Spring Festival couplets." Spring Festival couplets will be popularized in the future. After the Spring Festival, every household will post Spring Festival couplets, which indicates the real arrival of the new year.