What should you eat during the Chinese New Year?

1. Dumplings

It is customary to eat dumplings at New Year's Eve in the north, which means to send off the Stove Lord, which means "sending dumplings to windward noodles". When offering the offering, the dumplings should be placed neatly on the offering table. In addition, there is a saying among the people that "dumplings are not as delicious as dumplings". During the Spring Festival, dumplings have become an indispensable delicacy.

2. Sticky cake

In the Shandong and Luxi regions, there is a folk song of "Twenty-three, sticky cake and sticky". Every year on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, every household steams sticky cakes and eats sticky cakes, which means to stick the Stove King's mouth and let him say good things to heaven and not bad things to the world. The sticky cake is made of yellow rice, red dates, etc., which is sweet, chewy, and soft in the mouth. It means "good luck every year" and auspicious meaning. In addition, Hainanese people use coconuts as ingredients to make coconut cakes to eat and pray for, which means "good luck every year".

3. Sesame candy

There is a saying in northwestern Shanxi: "Eat sesame candy at the age of twenty-three, and gnaw your fingers on sesame candy if you are not able to eat it." It is said that Xiaonian is the day when the Kitchen God goes to heaven. He goes to heaven to report to the emperor the food and clothing consumption of the world in the past year and other things that the emperor wants to know. Is this the Kitchen God’s duty reporting day? The purpose of eating sesame candy is to prevent the Kitchen God's mouth from being stuck with the candy and not being able to report the delicious and luxurious scenes in the world to heaven, so as not to punish people who love eating and drinking - the New Year brings famine, and we look forward to a happy one. A peaceful and abundant year has come.

4. Rice cakes

The 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month is commonly known as "Little Year" among the people. Folks in Wuxuan and Guiping, Guangxi have the custom of making rice cakes. Rice cakes are made of glutinous rice flour as the main ingredient, peanuts, sesame seeds, and sugar as ingredients. They are put into molds and shaped into round shapes, and then steamed at high temperatures. They taste unique and have the meaning of "reunion and reunion".

5. Killing pigs for the New Year

The custom of killing pigs to celebrate the Spring Festival is observed in places such as Landong in Lianhua in Gongcheng Yao Autonomous County, Xinhe in Xiling, and Waterside Village in Guanyin. . After Little New Year's Eve (the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month), the lively show of killing the New Year pig begins. Select the best meat, stir-fry or stew it, cook it carefully, pour a glass of wine, and invite friends and family to enjoy the first meal of fresh meat after the pig is slaughtered - soup.

6. Fire

In addition to eating stove candies on the day of worshiping the stove, fire is also a very unique seasonal food. Every year on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, the business of sesame cake stalls in the city is very prosperous.