Spring Festival food.

It is said that rice cakes were first used to worship ancestors and gods, and later gradually became Spring Festival food, with a history of more than 2,000 years.

In some places, rice cakes are also called "rice cakes", which means "getting higher every year", indicating that people expect to live better every year.

Rice cakes are usually made of glutinous rice flour and yellow rice flour, which are divided into yellow rice cakes and white rice cakes.

You can cook soup with vegetables and meat, or steam it with osmanthus flowers and roses.

spring roll

Spring rolls are an indispensable food on the table during the Spring Festival. Spring rolls, also known as spring cakes and pancakes, are popular traditional snacks in Fuzhou with a long history, which is a good omen for celebrating the Spring Festival.

Cooked glutinous rice is mashed into paste.

Ciba is also a delicious snack in the Spring Festival, especially in the southern generation. The family happily prepared for the Chinese New Year by playing Ciba together, which was very enjoyable.

Ciba is mainly made of glutinous rice. Whenever there is a happy event, local people will treat their guests with mixed brown sugar to show good luck.

Chinese dumpling

As the saying goes, "delicious but jiaozi", jiaozi has many auspicious meanings, and jiaozi symbolizes reunion and acacia; At the same time, it means resigning the old and welcoming the new; In addition, jiaozi is shaped like an "ingot" made of gold and silver in ancient China. Eating jiaozi means "getting rich".

Tianjin: zygote

People in Tianjin love to eat zygotes in the first month, and sometimes they just eat jiaozi as an ornament.

Cooking is the most common zygote, and some people like to eat roasted zygotes, commonly known as "dry roasted seeds".

People endow zygote food with good luck and interest with beautiful folk psychology, and look forward to life, beauty, prosperity in four seasons and career in Sheng Da.

Nanjing: Jambalaya.

People in Nanjing must eat during the New Year, only mixed rice.

Jambalaya is not only convenient to make, but also meaningful. There are green leafy vegetables such as shepherd's purse and spinach, as well as shredded carrots, soybean sprouts and black fungus. It is colorful, which means people want to win a good lottery.

Taizhou: Five-flavor porridge

There are five kinds of porridge in Taizhou. There are taro in porridge, and the other four are white rice, red dates, tofu and cowpea.

It is said that this kind of porridge was originally made by monks in temples to pray for the arrival of the "Five Blessingg" in the New Year.

Henan: jiaozi cooks noodles in some places in Henan. On the first day of New Year's Day, every household eats boiled noodles from jiaozi, which is called "gold thread wears gold ingots", also called "hanging golden turtles to bring money". Because jiaozi is so much like an ingot, jiaozi cooked it in the middle of the night and fished it, which is called "fishing for an ingot".

Sichuan: Zhangcha Duck Sichuanese believe that the most important thing in the New Year is that the family should be neat, so the dishes are all whole duck (Zhangcha Duck), whole fish (fragrant roasted mandarin fish) and whole hoof, which embodies the concept of "whole"; A dish (soup) containing pig ears and oxtail stands for "one head and one tail".

Guangzhou: oil angle.

Oil angle is essential for Chinese New Year in Guangdong.

Ten days and twenty days before the Spring Festival, every household will fry oil angle in an iron pan.

Open a wok and fry some oil angle, so that the next year will be like that wok-oily and rich.

Ningde: sugar water

In Ningde, people are vegetarian on the morning of New Year's Day.

Although the first morning was vegetarian, there were many dishes, each of which was meaningful.

Rice cakes, glutinous rice, spinach, tofu, longevity noodles, Flammulina velutipes, pumpkins ... The whole family should get up early, and the first thing after getting up is to drink a cup of sugar water soaked in red dates and peanuts. , symbolizing the sweetness of the New Year.

Shaanxi: Huang Momo

The flour ground with yellow rice and soft rice is wrapped with bean and jujube stuffing, which is sweet and sour, soft but not sticky. The amount of yellow steamed bread should be enough for one month, so you hardly need to cook it in the first month, just eat it while it is hot.

Taiwan Province Province: Long-term dishes.

"Jiucai" is a kind of mustard with long stems and leaves and bitter taste.

Some even add slender vermicelli to dishes, which means "endless and immortal".