"Food is the most important thing for people", and diet is the first need of people's material life. It has strong characteristics of the times and distinctive local cultural color.

The first thing Minnan people do in the morning is to make tea. Xiamen people call tea "MC Davi" and compare it to rice. They call drinking tea eating tea, which is in the same position as eating, to show that tea and rice are equally important in people's lives. Just as Wang Anshi said, "Tea is used by the people, which means rice is salt, and it is impossible to have nothing for a day." The tea-drinking custom in southern Fujian is mainly to drink Kung Fu tea, which is called "Kung Fu tea" because it is more time-consuming and laborious than drinking tea. Drinking tea generally requires "tea matching", especially drinking high-concentration kungfu tea, which can prevent "tea drunkenness", and binge drinking is the most important wine custom in southern Fujian. As the saying goes, "no wine, no table", people drink to celebrate festivals, such as Spring Festival wine, Dragon Boat Festival realgar wine and Mid-Autumn Festival wine.

Minnan people have three meals a day, mainly rice, porridge in the morning and evening, and lunch at noon. In Minnan dialect, porridge is called rice. It's thin, thick and thin. Thick porridge is called "roasted head and minced meat", which means "dry water", and thin porridge is called "Mi An Zi". As for the Chinese New Year's food customs, there are different food customs according to different festivals. For example, during the Spring Festival and New Year's Eve, in addition to eating all kinds of chicken, duck, fish and vegetables around the stove, it is customary to eat a hot pot. The old copper hot pot, burning charcoal fire in the middle, symbolizes the reunion of the whole family around the stove.

Folk taboo

Taboo is a traditional custom, a concept and practice that restricts social behavior and belief activities. Minnan people have also formed some taboos about food, clothing, housing, communication and language in their daily lives, such as knocking on bowls with chopsticks when eating, because in the old society only beggars would knock on empty bowls to beg. Chopsticks should not be inserted into the rice bowl, which is related to the funeral custom of "worshipping feet and rice" in folk customs. Don't hit people with brooms, otherwise it will be unlucky, because people regard brooms as spiritual things. Avoid planting banana trees and banyan trees in the courtyard. It is said that bananas are seedless, so they are not conducive to fertility. Banyan is regarded as a sacred tree (because it is the oldest), and it is disrespectful and unlucky to plant it in the family yard.