Ten must-eat foods during the Spring Festival are: jiaozi, Spring Cake, Yuanxiao, New Year Cake, Yuanbao Soup, Tanggua, Tu Su Wine, Ermi Rice, Qibao Soup and Wuguo Soup.

1. jiaozi

The Beijing proverb: "It's delicious but not as good as jiaozi" is widely welcomed by ordinary people. Jiaozi, also known as "dumplings", is called "flat food" in some places because of its slightly flat shape. Multi-purpose leather bag stuffing, cooked by boiling or frying, frying, steaming and other methods. Jiaozi originated in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and it is a folk food with a long history. During the Spring Festival, jiaozi is an indispensable delicacy.

2. Spring pancake

In ancient beginning of spring, the daily bread was baked very thin, also called pancake. When eaten with several kinds of lettuce, the number is spring plate. Every year on beginning of spring Day, we eat spring cakes, which are called "biting spring". There are also spring cakes in Jiangnan, but the practice is different from that in the north.

3. Yuanxiao

On the fifteenth day of the first month, Yuanxiao is eaten in the north and Tangyuan is eaten in the south. Yuanxiao was very popular in the Song Dynasty. It was first called "Floating Yuanzi" and later called "Yuanxiao", and businessmen also called it "Yuanbao". Usually, raw materials such as white sugar, rose, sesame, red bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnut kernel, nuts and jujube paste are used as stuffing, and glutinous rice flour is wrapped into a circle. Meat can be vegetarian, with different flavors. It can be boiled in soup, fried and steamed, which means reunion and a happy life.

4. 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.

5. Yuanbao Soup

Yuanbao Soup is wonton, so it is called "Yuanbao Soup" because it looks like Yuanbao. Eating wonton means making money into treasure, symbolizing that financial resources are rolling in like soup. Generally, pork, spinach and leek are used as stuffing, or mutton and cabbage are used as stuffing. In the north, the god of wealth is sacrificed on the second day of the first month, and Yuanbao soup is to be drunk at noon that day.

6. candied melon

candied melon is a kind of sticky sugar made from yellow rice and malt. Put it outside in winter, because the weather is very cold, the candied melon solidifies very firmly, and some tiny bubbles are formed in the sugar, which tastes crisp, sweet and crisp and has a unique flavor. People pay attention to eating candied melons on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month every year.

7. Tu Su wine

It is said that Hua Tuo, a famous doctor in the late Han Dynasty, created it. It is made by soaking rhubarb, Atractylodes macrocephala, Cinnamomum cassia twig, Saposhnikovia divaricata, Zanthoxylum bungeanum, Aconitum carmichaeli, etc. in wine, and it has the effects of nourishing yang, expelling wind and dispelling cold, and avoiding the evil of epidemic diseases. It was later spread by Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty. Tu Su, which means to kill something congenial and awaken people's souls. Drinking Tu Su wine is also a custom in Chinese New Year. It is said that drinking this wine on the morning of the first day of the first month can keep you from getting sick for a year.

8. Two-meter rice

In the north of China, some families want to provide a pot of rice, which will be cooked before the New Year and used for the New Year. It is called "every other year's rice", which means that there are leftovers every year and they can't be eaten all the year round. This pot of rice is usually made of rice and millet. As the saying goes, it is called "two-meter rice" and "gold and silver rice".

9. Seven treasures soup

It is an old custom that seven kinds of vegetables are mixed with rice flour to make soup on the seventh day of the first lunar month, which is called "Seven treasures soup". Due to the different products in different places, the fruits and vegetables used in the "seven treasures soup" are different, and the meaning is also different. Common fruits and vegetables include mustard, kale, leek, spring vegetables, celery, garlic and thick-petaled vegetables.

1. Wuguo Soup

Wuguo Soup is one of the favorite traditional midnight snacks in Chaoshan area of Guangdong Province, especially Donghai Town of Lufeng City. The Spring Festival is often used to entertain guests. It is made of coix seed, Euryale euryales, longan, lotus seeds and adzuki beans. Some of them don't need lotus seeds, and white sugar is added when persimmon is cooked, which is moist and delicious.