Spring Festival is the most important traditional festival for Chinese people. Although people's living standards have improved now, big fish and meat are no longer only available on holidays, but those traditional foods with annual flavor are still the indispensable protagonists on the table. If you don't eat these delicious foods during the Spring Festival, you always feel something is missing. 1. jiaozi

On the dinner table in the north, jiaozi is a big feast food that no delicacies can replace. Jiaozi, also known as Jiao Er and Jiao Zi, means the alternation of old and new. Eat jiaozi on New Year's Eve, which means "making friends at a younger age". In addition, jiaozi looks like an ingot. Eating jiaozi during the New Year also means "making a fortune".

2, rice cakes

Eating rice cakes during the Spring Festival is a custom in many places, such as red/white rice cakes in Fujian, Shuimo rice cakes in Ningbo, osmanthus sugar rice cakes in Suzhou, Baiguo rice cakes in Beijing and sticky rice cakes in the north. Because rice cakes are also called "Niannian cakes", which is homophonic with "getting taller every year", eating rice cakes means that people's work and life are getting higher every year.

3. Fish

Fish is indispensable on the dinner table during the Spring Festival, because fish, like "surplus", represents "surplus" and means "surplus every year". There are many things to pay attention to when eating fish in the New Year. Fish should be the last dish on the New Year's Eve, and it can't be finished, which symbolizes that there is "surplus" every year. In other places, fish heads and tails should be kept until the first day of the lunar new year, which means that there is a "surplus" from beginning to end of the year. 4. Chicken

Chicken is homophonic with "Ji". In Guangdong, there is a saying that "no chicken is impossible", and chicken is an indispensable food for Cantonese people in the New Year. People eat chicken to pray for good luck, and look forward to the coming year. 5. Spring rolls

Spring rolls are fried with leeks, bean sprouts, shredded pork, celery, shredded tofu, shredded chicken, mushrooms and other ingredients, and then wrapped in pancakes, which means "from beginning to end". In some places, they eat fried spring rolls, which look like pieces of gold bars and have the auspicious meaning of "golden twelve thousand".

what do people usually eat during the spring festival? What else do you know about some delicious food in the Spring Festival ~ ~