1. Rice cakes

Rice cakes are mostly seasonal foods made of glutinous rice (glutinous rice) or glutinous rice flour with different accessories. The traditional custom of eating rice cakes in the New Year began in the Zhou Dynasty. Rice cakes are yellow and white, symbolizing gold and silver. It not only embodies the good wishes of abundant crops and rich life, but also takes the meaning of longevity of "high age". Today's rice cakes have developed into colorful and varied New Year foods.

2. Bai San

Every place in China has traditional cuisine belonging to that place during the New Year. I wonder if there is any Chinese New Year cuisine in your hometown in the following picture? . Photo: Women in a certain place are making a free meal for the New Year.

3. jiaozi cooks noodles

In some parts of Henan Province, every family eats jiaozi cooked noodles on the New Year's Day, which is called "gold thread wears gold ingots", also called "hanging golden turtles with money". Because jiaozi is so like gold ingots, jiaozi cooked them at midnight and fished for food, which is called "fishing for gold ingots", and it is this year and next year.

4. Candied melons

There is a folk song in Beijing-"Candied melons offer sacrifices to stoves". The first foods that enter the festival are candied melons, Guandong sugar and so on. Candied melon is round and fat in appearance, made of maltose, slightly sour in sweetness. It is a good snack, but it is rare now.

5. Sticky bean bag

Sticky bean bag is also called "Nian Dou Bao", which, as the name implies, is the new year's cake for Chinese New Year. Most sticky bean buns are made in yellow wheat, and the stuffing is cowpea, adzuki bean or mung bean. Yellow wheat is made of broomcorn millet. The varieties of broomcorn millet are different, including black broomcorn millet and red broomcorn millet. Their viscosity and color are very different. The best shape is smooth, round and exquisite. It should be placed neatly on the curtain, and the taste is sweet and soft.