Spring Festival diet:

1. Eating jiaozi and jiaozi is an essential food for northerners on New Year's Eve. jiaozi is shaped like an ingot, and eating jiaozi in the Spring Festival means "making money and getting treasure". On New Year's Eve, the whole family rolled the dough and wrapped jiaozi. After jiaozi wrapped it, it was reserved for midnight. At this time, it was the turn of New Year's Eve and Spring Festival. "jiaozi" had the homonym of "making friends", and eating jiaozi meant "making friends at a younger age", which meant "Happy New Year".

Second, eat rice cakes

Rice cakes are a must-have Spring Festival food in many southern regions, as important as jiaozi in the north. The meaning of rice cakes and "rising year by year" is generally made of glutinous rice or rice, which tastes sweet and glutinous. There are many kinds of rice cakes, which can be made into original flavor, brown sugar, red dates, honey beans, etc., and can also be wrapped with various fillings, such as bean paste, meat stuffing, salty and sweet, and can be steamed, fried, fried and so on.

Third, eating glutinous rice balls

Tangyuan is also one of the important foods in the Spring Festival. It is eaten on the fifteenth day of the first month in the north and on New Year's Eve in many places in the south. There are glutinous rice balls or yellow rice balls with black sesame seeds and peanuts as fillings. It tastes sweet and delicious. Tangyuan is round in shape, which means that the whole family is "round and round" together.

Fourth, eat spring rolls

Many southern areas don't eat jiaozi during the Spring Festival, but eat spring rolls, which are also called spring cakes. Make flour into a thin dough, roll all kinds of vegetables and meat into the dough and cook it by steaming or frying. Generally, we eat spring cakes in beginning of spring and fried spring rolls on New Year's Eve. The fried spring rolls are crispy outside and tender inside, which tastes fragrant but not greasy. Spring rolls are similar to jiaozi, with all kinds of fillings wrapped in dough and rich nutrition, symbolizing "spring returns, the revival of everything", and everything is a brand-new beginning.

5. Eating around the stove

In Fujian and Taiwan Province, many families eat around the stove during the Chinese New Year. Around the stove is a form of hot pot. When people keep the new year's eve, their families sit around the stove, and a pot of hot pot is usually placed in the middle of the table. Everyone eats while chatting, and the atmosphere is lively. The boiling hot pot means that everything on the table is booming. People who participate in the "around the stove", regardless of size, eat everything on the table. Every dish in the fireplace also has special meanings, such as chicken symbolizing "good luck", fish symbolizing "more than a year", radish symbolizing "good luck" and so on.