Rice cakes, jiaozi, glutinous rice balls, spring rolls, eight-treasure rice, combination dishes, etc. 1, rice cakes: Eating rice cakes on the first day of the first month means "rising year by year" and "wealth and good fortune". The rice cake is made of glutinous rice, which is soft and delicious. Fish-shaped rice cakes are popular and have the meaning of "more than one year". 2. jiaozi: The homophonic "jiaozi" has a beautiful meaning of alternating, saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, symbolizing New Year, happiness and good luck. 3. Tangyuan: Many places are used to eating "Tangyuan" on New Year's Eve, symbolizing "Tuan Tuan Yuan Yuan". Most places will eat glutinous rice balls on the fifteenth day of the first month and the night of the full moon. Reunion means reunion because of its roundness. 4. Spring rolls: Spring rolls are naturally indispensable during the Spring Festival. In ancient times, the Spring Festival and beginning of spring were on the same day, so eating spring rolls during the Spring Festival meant welcoming spring. Spring rolls are made by wrapping several vegetables in a thin cake bag and frying them in an oil pan until golden brown. Vegetables rolled in spring rolls mean "spring is full" 5. Eight-treasure rice: Eight-treasure rice is mainly glutinous rice, with various grains, nuts and dried fruits. It is often eaten at the dinner table of Southern New Year's Eve. Because there are many kinds of grains in the eight-treasure rice, it has the meaning of "bumper harvest of grains" in the New Year. Babao rice tastes sweet, which means "sweet and beautiful". 6. Combination dishes: Combination dishes are made of a variety of vegetables, and different regions have different practices. Generally take 10 kinds of vegetables, stir-fried or cold-mixed, and the combined dishes mean "harmony and beauty" and "perfection".
Spring Festival food: Yuanxiao.
Yuanxiao has many names in history, and the north and the south have different names for it. All kinds of Yuanxiao produced in different places have different flavors, but they all have the meaning and symbol of reunion, which are deeply loved by the masses and become indispensable holiday food for the Lantern Festival.
Food for the Spring Festival: Laba porridge
Laba porridge, also known as eight-treasure porridge, is made of longan, coix seed, cereal, glutinous rice, mung bean, adzuki bean, kidney bean and peanut.
Spring Festival Food: Spring Cake
Dietary customs of Han nationality in early spring. Spring pancake is a pancake baked with flour and usually eaten with rolled vegetables. At first, spring cakes and vegetables were put on a plate, which became "spring vegetables". Beginning of spring eats spring cakes to welcome spring and pray for a bumper harvest.
Food for the Spring Festival: honeydew melon
As the saying goes, "Twenty-three, honeydew melons stick", and many places have the custom of eating honeydew melons and worshipping God. Legend has it that on this day, Kitchen God will return to heaven to report your family's situation to the Jade Emperor. Therefore, every household sacrifices honeydew melons to Kitchen God, so that his mouth will be sweet and sweet, and he will only say good things about heaven, so that the next year will be sweeter.