First, dumplings
Dumplings are the traditional food of the Spring Festival period, for the northern people, the Spring Festival food how can be less dumplings, dumplings are not only delicious to eat, but also a very deep meaning, it has the "fortune into the treasure" of the meaning of good fortune, so in the New Year's Eve to eat dumplings on the new year can go to the wealth and luck. So eating dumplings on New Year's Day signifies that the new year is going to be a prosperous one. And the choice of dumpling fillings and symbols have a direct link, such as leek dumplings with a long wealth of meaning, cabbage dumplings with a hundred wealth of meaning, mushrooms dumplings with a drum wealth of meaning, pickled cabbage dumplings with the meaning of counting the wealth and so on, so that dumplings is the Spring Festival during the indispensable food.
Second, chicken
Chicken during the Chinese New Year is not less of a food, chicken and auspicious homophonic, eat chicken means a hundred things good luck, and eat chicken is also very concerned about the chicken wings to the young people to eat, with the meaning of the grand exhibition, the chicken legs to the elders to eat, there is a family of the top of the pillar meaning. During the New Year's Eve we eat food with high calories, so many people in the region will be cooking chicken skin, to reduce the intake of fat, but also to ensure that the chicken is delicious.
Three, fish
Yearly surplus (fish) is a more traditional Chinese saying, so in the Spring Festival this auspicious day, fish is very important, many families in order to eat the good omen of the year, will eat a New Year's Eve, the first day of the New Year to eat one, so it is the yearly surplus. However, we have another saying, is to eat fish tail on New Year's Eve, the first day of the year to eat the head of the fish, so that it is also a year of surplus, head and tail.
Fourth, rice cake
What traditional food to eat on Chinese New Year, in fact, the main thing is still some auspicious, such as rice cake. Almost everywhere in the country with the river rice flour and corn sticky surface made of sticky cake (also called rice cake), meaning "year high". Most of the food eaten at the Spring Festival is prepared before the festival, and most people in the north eat steamed buns. In the south, the first few days of the festival are spent panning rice, which is called "Wan Nian Grain Rice", meaning that there is plenty of food for every year. Rice cake is also a necessary food for the Han Chinese to celebrate the New Year. Do a variety of grain rice cake, different methods around. Among them, the most famous is the water-ground sticky rice cake in Jiangnan. The northern part of the white cake or yellow rice sticky cake, the Southwest ethnic minorities are accustomed to eating glutinous rice.
V. Lantern Festival
The first day of the first month of the North to eat Lantern Festival, the South to eat dumplings. Lanterns in the Song Dynasty was very popular, the first called "floating Yuanzi", later called "Lantern", business people also called "Yuanbao". Usually sugar, rose, sesame, bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnuts, nuts, jujube paste and other ingredients for the filling, wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a round shape. It can be meat or vegetarian, with different flavors. Soup can be boiled, fried, steamed, have a reunion, the meaning of a happy life.
Six, New Year's Eve dinner
New Year's Eve dinner to eat the slower the better, each dish to eat a bite. There are several dishes, because they contain auspicious meaning, in the New Year's Eve dinner is indispensable, such as: [long years of vegetables] (mustard) to a one by one to eat from the end, the first year in order to be a long time; [vegetable head] that good luck; [chicken] symbolizes the whole family blessing ([chicken] and [home] homophonic); eat [ark shells] with the [fat] homophonic, to take the meaning of its hair blessing; to eat fishballs, shrimp pills, meatballs, refers to the meaning of the [three yuan and the first] (i.e., the top.), (i.e., Scholar, Councilor, and Solved). The only thing you can't eat at the table is fish, which means that you can have more than enough for every year.
The difference between Spring Festival and New Year's Eve
Simply put, the Spring Festival in a broad sense, including New Year's Eve and New Year's Eve; New Year's Eve and New Year's Eve and New Year's Eve are the same day, New Year's Eve refers to the night of the New Year's Eve, that is, New Year's Eve. The specific meaning of the Spring Festival refers to the first day of the Lunar New Year, that is, the first day of the Lunar New Year.
From the information to find, New Year's Eve is one of the most significant of China's traditional festivals. Refers to the evening of the last day of the year in the lunar calendar, that is, the evening before the Spring Festival, because often in the summer lunar month thirty or twenty-nine, it is also known as the day for the year thirty. The last day of the year is called "New Year's Eve", and that night is called "New Year's Eve". People often stay up all night on New Year's Eve, called the New Year's Eve. Su Shi wrote "Keeping the New Year's Eve": "Children are strong enough not to sleep, and they keep vigil all night long." On New Year's Eve, not only should the house be cleaned up, but also put up door gods, spring couplets, New Year's paintings, hang door cages, and people change into new clothes with festive colors and patterns. The Spring Festival, the Lunar New Year, is commonly known as the New Year.
Because the Spring Festival and the New Year are so closely linked, and because of the demands of the times, people are slowly combining these two traditional festivals into one. In terms of time, Chinese New Year is the last day of the year, the end of the year. And the Spring Festival is the beginning of the year, the first day of the Lunar New Year and the first day of spring every year, so called the Spring Festival, that is, to tell people, from this day onwards, spring came, the new year began.
In the past, people at this time, are called New Year's Eve, also known as "New Year's Eve". Due to the introduction of the Gregorian calendar, the first day of the first month of the "New Year's Day" moved to the Gregorian New Year's Day, coupled with the sixties, the promotion of "break the old and establish the new", "eliminate superstitious" and other political factors requirements, gradually diluted the location of the year. In recent years, in some calendars, wall calendars, calendars, etc., respectively, printed with the New Year's Eve and the Spring Festival. But in the public **** media, as well as propaganda, etc., the year and the Spring Festival are confused together. Really do not know, thousands of years of traditional Chinese festivals "year", whether to let the "Spring Festival" instead, really not good.
What are the traditional foods of the Spring Festival2Dumplings
Dumplings are the essential food of the northern New Year's Eve dinner table, dumplings and cross the harmony, take the meaning of "more years to cross the son". In addition, the dumplings are shaped like Yuanbao, Chinese New Year eating dumplings meant to "attract wealth into the treasure", people will also be coins wrapped in dumplings, eat the dumplings in the new year will have a good fortune.
Rice Cake
In the early days, the people of Suzhou made rice cakes for New Year's Eve in honor of Wu Zixu, and then they gradually became popular all over the country, such as Shandong's red jujube rice cake, Beijing's hundred-fruit rice cake, Fujian's taro rice cake with red/white sugar, Ningbo's water-ground rice cake, and Suzhou's osmanthus-sugar rice cake, etc. The rice cake is a symbol of the "New Year". The rice cake, which harmonizes with the word "nian gao", is a must-have food for Chinese New Year, which sends people's expectation of "nian gao".
Long noodles
Also known as longevity noodles, eat it in the New Year, wishing to live a hundred years. In ancient times, all noodles were called cakes, so the soup noodles were also called soup cakes at the beginning, the beginning of the sheet is not rolled or pressed into the noodles, but will be and the good noodles, hand to the pot to tear the sheet, and the north to eat the "crow's head", "monkey ear" and other practices are similar. After the Tang Dynasty, they began to use the board to roll out the noodles, and gradually had long noodles, short noodles, dry noodles, vegetarian noodles, meat noodles, hanging noodles.
Tangyuan
Sichuan on the first day of the New Year to eat soup dumplings for breakfast, the day of the dumplings called "Yuanbao", eat soup dumplings called "get Yuanbao", take its reunion, complete, sweet meaning. Yangzhou people on the first day of the New Year to eat four happy dumplings, meaning everything is going well, family reunion; Shanghai people on the first day of the New Year breakfast is also eaten dumplings, implying a full circle, wealth and power.
Chicken
"No chicken is not a feast" is the Cantonese. Mantra, Guangdong, Hong Kong and the area around the New Year must eat chicken, chicken and Ji pronunciation is similar, on behalf of the life of auspicious and lucky. Hubei people are to drink chicken soup on New Year's Day, symbolizing the peace of Qingtai. Chicken wings symbolize the spread of wings and fly, chicken claws mean "New Year catching money", eating chicken bones means "outstanding".
Fish
Chinese New Year diet pay attention to the good meaning, of course, without fish, usually the last dish on the table, some places this dish basically left without eating, meaning that "year after year". And some places on the selection of the New Year's Eve dinner in the fish is also concerned, silver carp for the year, crucian carp and carp for the great luck, salmon for the rich and powerful.
Wonton
In Jingjiang, Jiangsu Province, no matter whether you are entertaining guests or celebrating New Year's Eve or a happy event, you must eat wontons. In the morning of New Year's Eve, every family starts to chop vegetables and pack wontons, and from the 30th day of the New Year to the 15th day of the first month, "wontons on wine, the more you eat the more you have", which sends the people of Jingjiang's good wishes for the new year.
Patty cake
Hunan Xiangxi Tujia people have always had "28, hit the poop" said. On the twentieth day of the Lunar New Year, the Tujia people have to make glutinous rice patties, and the Hakka people also have the habit of eating patties on festivals.
Zongzi
The Zhuang people in Guangxi have the custom of eating rice dumplings on New Year's Day, a few days before the Spring Festival every year, Zhuang family members have to pack rice dumplings or buy rice dumplings, the first day of the year, the second day of the year, there are guests must eat rice dumplings.
Chicken
"No chicken is not a feast" is the mantra of the Guangdong people, Guangdong, Hong Kong and around the New Year must eat chicken, chicken and Ji pronounced similar to the representative of the life of the lucky. Hubei people are to drink chicken soup on New Year's Day, symbolizing the peace of Qingtai. Chicken wings symbolize the spread of wings and fly high, chicken claws mean "New Year's catching money", eating chicken bones means "outstanding".
Fish
Chinese New Year diet pay attention to the good meaning, of course, without fish, usually the last dish on the table, some places this dish basically left without eating, meaning that "year after year". And some places on the selection of the New Year's Eve dinner in the fish is also concerned, silver carp for the year, crucian carp and carp for the great luck, salmon for the rich and powerful.
Wonton
In Jingjiang, Jiangsu Province, no matter whether you are entertaining guests or celebrating New Year's Eve or a happy event, you must eat wontons. In the morning of New Year's Eve, every family starts to chop vegetables and pack wontons, and from the 30th day of the New Year to the 15th day of the first month, "wontons on wine, the more you eat the more you have", which sends the people of Jingjiang's good wishes for the new year.
Patty cake
Hunan Xiangxi Tujia people have always had "twenty-eight, hit the poop" said. On the twentieth day of the Lunar New Year, the Tujia people have to make glutinous rice patties, and the Hakka people also have the habit of eating patties on festivals.
Zongzi
The Zhuang people in Guangxi have the custom of eating rice dumplings on New Year's Day, a few days before the Spring Festival every year, Zhuang family members have to pack rice dumplings or buy rice dumplings, the first day of the year, the second day of the year, there are guests must eat rice dumplings.
Lettuce
Cantonese people also eat lettuce on New Year's Eve, lettuce and wealth resonance, implying that the next year prosperous wealth.
Sugar Melon
Sugar Melon is actually a kind of sacrificial food made of millet and maltose. The purpose of using it is to stick to the mouth of Zaoshengyi, so as to prevent him from speaking bad words in front of the Jade Emperor.
Turnip cake
Turnip cake is a traditional snack in Fujian and Guangdong, Minnan, Chaoshan called "vegetable head kuey teow". New Year's dishes with "cake" dishes, are sent to the good meaning of step by step, the Spring Festival to eat these dishes is intended to be a good luck.
Spring Cakes
Spring cakes, also known as spring rolls, are thin cakes made of flour. Eating spring pancakes are wrapped with vegetables and eaten from the beginning to the end, meaning "have a head and a tail", which represents the meaning of good luck