First, the Spring Festival food
Various local dishes in China are folk dishes with different characteristics in different regions. So what do you eat in different places for the New Year? The first is Guangdong, which is Cantonese food. The representative dish of Guangdong is oil angle, and Cantonese people want to fry oil angle during the Spring Festival, which is taken from Cantonese. Although the name is oil angle, just like fried jiaozi, the stuffing in oil angle is sweet, and it is made of coconut shreds, fried peanuts, sesame seeds and other fragrant fruits. It is wrapped in dumpling skin, and oil angle is shaped like a wallet. In order to make a fortune in the coming year, oil angle is big and small, which indicates a safe family. Hunan is the representative of Hunan cuisine, and the Chinese New Year's dish is Tuannian elbow. The big elbow of about 3 kilograms is a necessary New Year dish for Hunan people, commonly known as the elbow of the group year, which means another year of reunion, meaning to bid farewell to the old year and usher in the new year. Therefore, the bigger the dishes on the dining table of Hunan people, the richer and more auspicious they are, especially in areas where traditional customs and habits are well preserved, such as southern Hunan.
Second, Sichuan cuisine and Jiangsu and Zhejiang cuisine
The dish that must be ordered in Sichuan for the New Year must be bacon. The so-called bacon is the meat cured in the twelfth lunar month. Salty and delicious, bacon is essential. Bacon has become an indispensable appetizer on the table of Sichuanese in the New Year. The representative New Year's dishes in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces should be rice cakes, steamed with glutinous rice or rice flour. It is a seasonal food for the Lunar New Year. During the Spring Festival, many areas in China pay attention to eating rice cakes, also called rice cakes.
Third, other cuisines.
The representative New Year's dish in Fujian Province is red ball, which is a special snack and the most distinctive traditional holiday food in Fujian Province. It is not only delicious food, but also can be used to enhance the festive atmosphere, and it can also be used for sacrifice. It is a profound gift. Huizhou meatballs, the representative dish of Anhui Province, is a classic dish in Huizhou cuisine. They are delicious and brightly colored, also known as pearl balls, which have profound implications. For the northeast people, the representative New Year's dish in Northeast China is jiaozi, and jiaozi is a must-have item on the dinner table for the northeast people. Jiaozi's stuffing is also very particular. Many people will wrap a jiaozi stuffed with celery to make a good start for the coming year, and jiaozi will also wrap coins, so people who eat coins will get lucky blessings.