1. In China, on New Year's Day, people usually eat jiaozi and rice cakes, eat jiaozi, which means "making friends at a younger age", and eat jiaozi, which means "making friends at a younger age". Zi is homophonic with dumplings, which means "happy reunion" and "good luck" to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year. Rice cake: also known as sticky cake, which means high every year. Jiaozi and rice cakes are both traditional foods in China. While bringing joy to people, it has become an important part of China's food culture.

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2. In South Korea, New Year's Day usually includes rice cake soup and cake making, which symbolizes the growth of the New Year and is a traditional Korean food. The most typical food in Korea is rice cake soup. It is said that Koreans must drink a bowl of rice cake soup on the first day of the lunar new year, because they think they can't grow up by one year without eating rice cake soup. Making cakes is also one of the essential foods for Koreans in the New Year, and glutinous rice is the main raw material. The making process of cake beating pays attention to "beating". The rice cake is made of glutinous rice flour, while the cake beating is made of glutinous rice.

3. In Japan, buckwheat noodles are generally eaten on New Year's Day, which means health and longevity. Buckwheat is grown in many parts of Japan, and the history of buckwheat noodles can be traced back to the Edo period. At that time, buckwheat flour was a food that people prayed for happiness, and now many people often give it as a gift. It is said that according to the traditional custom, on New Year's Eve, the whole family will get together to eat buckwheat noodles. It is precisely because of the special position of buckwheat noodles in the hearts of Japanese people that it is also called "Nianmian".

4. In Singapore, raw fish is usually eaten on New Year's Day, which is delicious and means "wind and water". In the New Year, Singaporeans must eat "raw fish", which is rich in color and delicious. As a symbol of "wind and water", it has a good omen for people's happiness in the coming year, so it is widely welcomed.

5. In Vietnam, we usually eat square dumplings on New Year's Day. The shape of square dumplings is very similar to the glutinous rice chicken we often eat. The Vietnamese must eat zongzi on New Year's Eve. The whole family will share it on New Year's Eve and give it to each other as a gift during the festival. Vietnamese zongzi is rarely seen in Guangzhou. Because of its square shape and larger size, it is more like glutinous rice chicken, so it is also called "square zongzi".

6. In Malaysia, coconut milk rice is generally eaten on New Year's Day. The color of coconut milk rice is milky white, giving off a strong coconut fragrance. It is said that coconut milk rice is also the favorite food of Malaysian singer Pin Guan, and it is also the most traditional New Year food for Malaysians. As long as you walk into any local restaurant in Malaysia, you can almost find it.

? 7. The diet on New Year's Day in ancient China was rich and colorful, and the description in The Chronicle of Jingchu's Years is the concentrated expression. In the Southern Dynasties, Jingchu paid tribute to him on New Year's Day, followed by pepper and cypress wine, peach soup, Tu Su wine, táng, and spiced dishes. They were applied to powder, but the ghost pills were taken, and each of them ate an egg. There are drinks, food and medicines, all of which have their own special meanings.

pepper and cypress wine. Pepper is Zanthoxylum bungeanum, which smells fragrant and makes people light and resistant to old age. Cypress is cypress leaf, which was regarded as an elixir by the ancients, and it can avoid all diseases. Pepper and cypress can be soaked in wine separately, or they can be put into wine together for drinking. Drinking pepper and cypress wine can get rid of illness and live longer. Ancient poems left us a record of drinking pepper and cypress wine on New Year's Day. Yu Xin of the Southern Dynasty wrote "Zhengdan Mengdi Wine": "Zhengdan will make evil wine, and the New Year will bring you a long life cup. The cypress leaves come with the inscription, and the pepper flowers come one by one. " It depicts the joy of being rewarded with pepper and cypress wine on New Year's Day. Drinking pepper and cypress wine has been handed down among the people, and it has been practiced in Licheng, Shandong Province and Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province in the Ming Dynasty.

peach soup. That is, take the leaves, branches and stems of peaches and drink them by boiling. The ancients took peaches as the essence of the five elements, which could resist evil spirits. Make a hundred ghosts, so drink them.

Tu Su wine. Han E, a Tang Dynasty poet, recorded in "Hua Ji Li Jin Tu Su": "It is said that Tu Su is the name of the Cao An. Once upon a time, there were people who lived in a grass temple. Every year, except for the night, they left a medicine patch in the well, so that the bag was soaked in the well, and the water was taken on the Yuan day, and it was placed in a wine bottle for the whole family to drink, so as not to get sick of the plague. Today, people have their own side and don't know their names, but it's just Tu Su. " The listed eight herbs have the functions of clearing away heat, dispelling wind, invigorating spleen and removing dampness, which can be said to be beneficial and harmless to the body.

gum tooth. The meaning of glue teeth in the annotation "Jing Chu Sui Shi Ji" by Du Gongzhan of Sui Dynasty is "to make it firm". In fact, this custom has placed a good wish for longevity, because the teeth are strong, you can eat and drink, and you are naturally healthy. Sui annotation also said that "the northerners are like this today", which shows the universality of this custom. However, after the Southern Song Dynasty, as a offering to send stoves, the gum tooth jar slowly disappeared from New Year's Day food.

five-spice plate. As the food of the Yuan Dynasty, it was first seen in the Records of Local Customs in the Zhou Dynasty between the Wu and Jin Dynasties. It was said that eating spiced dishes in the morning of the Yuan Dynasty "helped to make five zang qi" (The Jade Candle Collection, volume 1). Five spicy dishes are five kinds of spicy dishes, and Sui notes in The Chronicle of Jingchu Years Old say garlic, garlic, leek, Yuntai and coriander. For example, as mentioned in the local customs, it can move the five internal organs and pray for health. It can be seen that the tradition of spicy food in Yuan Dynasty has a long history.

apply it to powder. It is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, and its prescription is from Refined Chemical Articles by Ge Hong. It is made of Semen Platycladi, Fructus Cannabis, Herba Asari, Zingiberis Rhizoma, Radix Aconiti Lateralis, etc., which are crushed into powder and taken with clean well water.

quegui pill. The prescription mentioned in Sui Notes of the Chronicle of the Age of Jingchu is: Wudu Xionghuang Dan is scattered in twos, mixed with wax to make it look like a projectile. On the morning of the first day of the first month of the first month, men wear it on their left arm and women wear it on their right arm. So the ghost will escape. However, the ghost pill mentioned in the Chronicle of Jingchu's Age is taken, which is different from the note. It may be a later custom to wear it. Yu Jianwu, a writer of the Southern Liang Dynasty, wrote "The Year Should Be Done" with a "Golden Book to Picture the God Swallow". The sentence "Zhu Ni is a ghost pill" shows that on New Year's Eve, there are preparations for ghost pills.