1. Food one: fish.
Every Spring Festival, there must be fish to represent "abundance every year", so many places will prepare fish as food, but each place will choose a different species. Among them, silver carp represents "abundance every year", and crucian carp and carp represent "good luck and good fortune".
", Salmon represents "wealth and abundance".
2. Food 2: Chicken.
"Eating chicken" is now very popular on the Internet, not only because of the game of eating chicken, but also because chicken is really one of the must-have foods for us during the New Year and festivals. Eating chicken means good luck and good luck, and drinking chicken soup means peace and peace, and it is different.
The parts of the chicken also have different meanings. For example, chicken wings mean flying high, chicken feet mean making money in the New Year, and chicken bones mean getting ahead.
3. Food three: dumplings.
Needless to say, dumplings are a must-have on the dinner table for northerners during the Spring Festival. Eating dumplings during the Spring Festival also has an extra layer of meaning, which is to attract wealth. This is because the dumplings during the Spring Festival are all made in the shape of ingots.
4. Food four: glutinous rice balls.
There are dumplings in the north and glutinous rice balls in the south. This is an eternal food custom.
Southerners call glutinous rice balls as ingots during the Spring Festival, and eating glutinous rice balls is called eating ingots, which means attracting wealth, happy reunion, and everything goes well.
5. Food five: rice cake.
Everyone can guess the meaning of rice cakes during the Spring Festival, which is "prosperity every year." There are different ways of eating rice cakes in different regions, and the types of rice cakes are also different.
For example, Suzhou has sweet-scented osmanthus rice cake, which was originally made to commemorate Wu Zixu in the early days, Beijing has mince rice cake, Shandong has red date rice cake, Ningbo has water-milled rice cake, etc. The rice cakes in each region have their own local characteristics.