What traditional food do you eat during the Spring Festival?
1, bacon
Bacon, sausage and preserved fish are essential Spring Festival delicacies for every household in some southern areas. Spicy Sichuan sausage, slightly sweet Cantonese sausage, red Xiangxi bacon and Jinhua ham are all popular traditional folk foods.
2. jiaozi
Jiaozi is a must-eat food for northerners in the New Year. Because it looks like an ingot, it is endowed with the meaning of "the way to make money". People also wrap coins, sweets, red dates and peanuts with auspicious meanings in fillings. Eating coins symbolizes getting rich in the new year, eating candy means that life will be sweeter in the coming year, and eating peanuts means health and longevity.
3. Tangyuan
The standard for Chinese New Year in South China is glutinous rice balls. In Shanghai, Jiangsu and other places, dumplings are eaten for breakfast on the first day of the first month, which means a happy reunion.
4. Rice cake
Soft and tough rice cakes are also essential food for the Spring Festival in the south. In addition to delicious rice cakes, eating rice cakes in the Spring Festival is also because of its good color. Like "Gao", rice cakes represent that our days are rising year by year.
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