The Spring Festival is a traditional reunion festival for Chinese people, and the most important thing for people on the day of reunion is eating.

Our country has a vast territory, and each region has its own unique and eclectic food. However, some interpretations of traditional Spring Festival delicacies are “universal” traditional Spring Festival delicacies across the country.

1. Eating Dumplings Dumplings are the most representative traditional delicacies in China. There is an old saying in China that "nothing is more delicious than dumplings." During the Spring Festival, dumplings have become an indispensable seasonal dish.

Interpretation of Traditional Food During the Spring Festival The folk custom of eating dumplings during the Spring Festival was quite popular during 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 Lunar New Year. Eating dumplings means "Gengsuijiaozi", "子"

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

There are many legends about eating dumplings during the Chinese New Year. One is to commemorate the founding of the world by Pangu and the end of chaos; the other is that it is homophonic with "hundun", which means "full of food".

In addition, there is also a folk saying that eating dumplings is related to Nuwa's creation of human beings.

When Nuwa kneaded earth to create a human being, the loess people's ears were easily frozen due to the cold weather. In order to keep the ears in place, Nuwa pierced a small eye in the human ear and tied the ear with a thin thread.

, put the other end of the thread in the mouth of the loess and bite it to complete the ears.

In order to commemorate Nuwa's achievements, the common people made dumplings, shaped into the shape of human ears with dough, filled with stuffing (thread), and eaten with their mouths.

2. Eating rice cakes During the Spring Festival, many areas in my country pay attention to eating rice cakes.

Nian Gao, also known as "Nian Nian Gao", is homophonic with "Nian Nian Gao", which means that people's work and life are improving year by year.

The rice cake is usually made of glutinous rice flour and yellow rice flour, and can be divided into yellow and white rice cakes.

To eat rice cake, it can be mixed with vegetables and meat and cooked into soup, or it can be steamed with osmanthus and roses.

It is said that rice cakes were first used to worship ancestors and gods, and later gradually became a Spring Festival food with a history of more than 2,000 years.