Food culture of the Spring Festival: 1. Dumplings are not more delicious than dumplings. Dumplings are the most representative traditional food in China. They have a history of nearly two thousand years and are widely loved by people.

There is an old saying in China that "nothing tastes better than dumplings."

During the Spring Festival, especially in the north, dumplings are an indispensable delicacy on the New Year’s Eve dinner table.

Dumplings are usually made before 12 o'clock in the evening on New Year's Eve and eaten at midnight, because this is the beginning of the first day of the first lunar month, "zi" means "Zi hour", and "dumpling" means "Jiao".

Homophoned, eating dumplings means "Gengsui Jiaozi", which means "joyful reunion" at the intersection of the new year and the old year.

2. Yuanxiao and Tangyuan The custom of eating glutinous rice balls during the Lantern Festival was first recorded in the Song Dynasty.

At that time, a novel food emerged in Mingzhou (today's Ningbo, Zhejiang), which was stuffed with various fruit baits and rolled into balls with glutinous rice flour. This kind of glutinous rice balls floated and sank when cooked in a pot, so it was first called "

"Fuyuanzi" was later renamed "Yuanxiao" in some areas.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Yuanxiao is eaten in the north and glutinous rice balls are eaten in the south. So what is the difference between glutinous rice balls and Yuanxiao?

In the southern region centered on Jiangsu and Zhejiang, glutinous rice balls are made using the wrapping method, that is, after boiling glutinous rice until soft, hand-kneading wet flour into fillings. Usually the fillings are larger and the skin is slightly thinner; in the northern region centered on Beijing,

Yuanxiao is made using the shaking method, which is rolled with dry powder. The filling is smaller and the powder is more.

3. Taking advantage of the year to win the year, in order to pray for the good year, many areas pay attention to eating rice cakes during the New Year, because rice cakes are also called "nian rice cakes", which are homophonic with "every year is high", which means that people's work and life are getting better year by year.

Happy New Year, so rice cakes are not only a festive delicacy, but also represent beautiful meanings and hopes.

As the poem goes: "People's hearts are so high that they make food with harmonious sounds, meaning that the year is better than the year, and they are used to pray for good years." It is said that rice cakes were first used to worship ancestors and gods, and later they gradually became a traditional Spring Festival delicacy.

Eating rice cakes during the Spring Festival is mostly seen in the south, and it often appears in red, yellow, and white colors, embodying the good wishes of a bumper harvest and a prosperous life.

4. Eating spring pancakes during the Spring Festival. Spring rolls, also known as spring pancakes, spring plates, and pancakes, are traditional Chinese delicacies eaten at the beginning of spring and are popular throughout China.

Spring rolls contain good wishes for the New Year and are auspicious signs of welcoming the Spring Festival.

In some areas in the south, dumplings are not eaten during the Spring Festival, but spring rolls are eaten.

In ancient times, the noodles eaten at the beginning of spring were baked very thin and were also called pancakes.

It is eaten with several kinds of lettuce and is called "spring plate".

Every year on the first day of spring, spring cakes are eaten, which is called "biting spring".

5. Eight-treasure rice is an indispensable food for Shanghainese’s traditional New Year’s Eve dinner, symbolizing reunion, good luck and peace.

Fuzhou people must eat Taipingyan, also known as flat meat swallow, during festivals, weddings and funerals, and gatherings of relatives and friends. As the saying goes, "There is no feast without swallow, and there is no adult without swallow."