China has a vast territory and abundant resources, and is rich in cultural types. Each place has its own cultural characteristics.
Guangdong is in the southernmost part of my country, so it is normal for there to be different ways of celebrating the New Year there.
As far as I know, Cantonese people eat delicacies such as fried feet, fried dumplings, egg powder, Xiaokou dates, Xiaohaha, sugar rings, kumquats and Tanggua candies during the Chinese New Year.
The so-called oily dumplings are made into ingot shapes and deep-fried.
Cantonese people generally do a lot of business, so they hope that business will be prosperous and they will be rich in the coming year.
Therefore, the oily feet look like gold ingots, which means that the coming year will be a year of wealth and harvest.
Jian Dui is also a kind of fried food. Cantonese people will say: "Jian Dui is full of gold and silver".
This means that during the Chinese New Year, if there are many fried dumplings at home, it means that the house can be filled with gold and silver. Therefore, Guangzhou people eating fried dumplings during the Chinese New Year means that they will be able to make money in the coming year.
Jian Dui is made by shaping glutinous rice flour into dumpling shapes, deep-frying them, and sprinkling sesame seeds on top.
Egg powder is also a kind of fried food. Its shape is irregular. It is mixed with flour and eggs and fried in a pan, so it is called egg powder.
Egg powder is a food that doesn’t look amazing, but actually you can’t stop eating it, it tastes very good.
Therefore, Cantonese people eat egg powder during the Chinese New Year, which also means unexpected joy.
Xiaokou jujube is a kind of jujube with cracked mouth. This jujube looks like a human smiling face.
If you eat this kind of date, it means you will be full of joy in the coming year and you will always encounter happy things.
Laughing haha ??is actually a prawn, because the shape of the shrimp is curved, like the eyes when smiling, so Cantonese people will laugh and haha ??during the Chinese New Year to increase their happiness. In fact, the reason is the same as the laughing mouth jujube.
Kumquats and sugar melons are also must-eat snacks for Cantonese people. Kumquats mean wealth in the eyes of Cantonese people, and sugar melons mean sweetness.
Therefore, kumquats and sugar melons symbolize wealth and sweetness in the coming year, which are also good wishes for the New Year.