The Spring Festival is coming again.

The cultural connotation of the year is rich and the cultural classics of the year are inherited.

Such as eating dumplings, eating rice cakes, drinking Yuanbao tea... How much do you know about these customs that have been passed down to this day?

Next, let’s take a look at the customs of celebrating the Spring Festival.

Interested friends, please come and find out together.

1. Eating dumplings The custom of eating dumplings during the Spring Festival was quite popular in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Dumplings are usually made before 12 o'clock in the evening on New Year's Eve and eaten at midnight. This is the beginning of the first day of the first lunar month. Eating dumplings means "Gengsui Jiaozi", and "子" means "子".

"Shi" is homophonic with "dumpling", which means "happy reunion" and "good luck".

Nowadays, dumplings have become an indispensable festival food during the Spring Festival. The reasons are as follows: First, dumplings are shaped like ingots.

People eat dumplings during the Spring Festival to "bring in wealth"; secondly, the dumplings are stuffed, which makes it easy for people to wrap various auspicious things in the stuffing to express people's wishes for the new year.

2. Eating rice cakes During the Spring Festival, many regions in my country have the custom of eating rice cakes.

Rice cakes are made of three colors: red, yellow and white, which represent money. Rice cakes are also called "nian rice cakes", which is a homophonic pronunciation of "every year is high", so eating rice cakes during the New Year also expresses good hopes year after year.

Moreover, rice cake is delicious, soft, glutinous and chewy, and is also a delicacy that many people like.

3. Drink "Yuanbao Tea" People in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province have the custom of going to teahouses to drink "Yuanbao Tea" on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

The so-called "Yuanbao Tea" means that the tea used here is of a higher grade than usual, and a "kumquat" or "green olive" is added to the tea vat at home to refer to the "Yuanbao", symbolizing the "Yuanbao coming in" in the new year.

, get rich." The second reason is that there is a red paper cut-out "Yuanbao" on the teapot, which roughly means "bringing in wealth."

4. Kill pigs and cut off New Year meat.

The twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month is an important day to buy new year's goods during the Chinese New Year. In the old society, people's living standards were not high, and meat was often rarely seen on the table throughout the year. Only during the Chinese New Year would they be willing to eat meat, so

Common people call the meat prepared for the New Year "New Year meat".

To this day, in rural areas across China, many places have large markets on this day. People go to the market on this day to buy gifts for visiting relatives after the New Year. New Year's firecrackers, cigarettes, wine, fish, meat, etc. need to be there.

Go buy it this day.

Folk proverbs call this day: "On the twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, kill pigs and cut off New Year's meat." 5. Slaughtering chickens and gathering New Year's chickens is one of the traditional New Year customs in northern China.

"Chicken" is the same as "auspicious", which means auspiciousness and good fortune. There is also something special about killing a chicken on the 27th of the twelfth lunar month.

The chicken that has been killed is not eaten on the same day, but can only be eaten until New Year's Eve. Moreover, you cannot finish it when eating on New Year's Eve, and you must keep some.

Because it represents good luck, so during the festival, you have to see chicken on the dining table every day, so that it is considered complete.