1. Beijing: Spring Pancakes: On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, Beijingers pay special attention to eating spring pancakes, commonly known as "biting spring".

When eating spring pancakes, it is important to wrap up the vegetables and eat them from beginning to end, which is called "head and tail", which means auspiciousness.

When eating spring cakes, the whole family sits together, puts the baked spring cakes in the steamer, and eats them as they go, in order to keep them warm.

2. Northeast: Sticky bean buns "sticky bean buns" are also called "New Year's bean buns". As the name suggests, they are the New Year's dumplings made during the Chinese New Year.

Sticky bean buns are a kind of sticky food that Northeastern people like to eat during the Spring Festival. They are homemade with yellow rice noodles and adzuki bean filling.

Sticky bean buns were first used as offerings to ancestors and as food when going hunting.

This must be made by the whole family before the New Year and eaten together during the Chinese New Year, which indicates happiness, contentment and harmony for the whole family.

3. Guangzhou: It is the tradition of Guangzhou people to "eat bacon" during the cold winter months.

Many rural families must have cured meat during the Chinese New Year. When relatives and friends gather together, home-made cured meat is often indispensable on the dining table.

In terms of taste, the most important taste in Cantonese cured meat is sweetness, because of the sugar in it.

4. Guangxi: Zongzi Every household in Guangxi makes zongzi during the Chinese New Year, which is a big deal.

In Guangxi, Zongzi is not only to commemorate the historical figure Qu Yuan. Zongzi is not only a good gift for New Years and festivals. Guangxi people have given Zongzi new meaning. Guangxi people even regard Zongzi as a mascot. Every year, Zongzi is celebrated.

In the middle of the year, Guangxi people make rice dumplings and eat rice dumplings as a sign of good luck.

5. Henan: Dumplings Henan people celebrate the Spring Festival without dumplings.

But there are a lot of rules for dumplings here.

Every morning on New Year's Eve, every household starts chopping stuffing. The dumplings made on that day should be enough for four meals, that is, noon on New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, the first day of the lunar month and noon.

6. Jiangsu: Chinese New Year steamed buns "On the 28th, make the noodles; on the 29th, steam the steamed buns." In the two days before New Year's Eve, according to traditional customs, every household must steam several pots of pasta, leave the noodles and steam the steamed buns.

It is customary to take the good fortune of making a fortune and prospering life in the coming year.

7. Shaanxi: Saozi noodles Saozi noodles are Shaanxi snacks with dozens of varieties. In rural areas of Guanzhong, Saozi noodles are basically served on the morning of the first day of the New Year.

Before eating, take a bowl of soup to the door and sprinkle some in honor of the ancestors and the Earth God, the Warehouse God, the Kitchen God, etc., and then the family can enjoy it.

Some people also offer bowls of noodles in front of their ancestors' statues to express their memory.

8. Shanghai: Bean sprouts. Shanghai New Year’s Eve dinner does not include soup. Most people always have sprouted beans and soybean sprouts at the New Year’s Eve dinner, because they symbolize growth and growth, which is very auspicious.

As for the old Shanghai custom, it is not advisable to make soup when eating on New Year's Eve. It is said that if you make soup when eating, you will be caught in the rain when you go out to do errands or travel the next year.

This is of course nonsense.

9. Nanjing: Lantern Festival Nanjing people have a saying of eating Yuanxiao to have a reunion, so local citizens will eat Yuanxiao from the first day of the Lunar New Year until the Lantern Festival.

"Stacked Yuanxiao" is a traditional variety of Nanjing's food culture. It is made by hand-kneading flour, stuffing and rolling into balls. It is dipped in raw glutinous rice flour many times and sifted and rolled in a vessel to give it a tough texture.

10. Hubei: "Three Wholes", "Three Cakes" and "Three Pills" Hubei people pay attention to "Three Wholes", "Three Cakes" and "Three Pills" when eating New Year's Eve dinner.

"Three completes" means whole chicken, whole duck, and whole fish; "three cakes" means fish cakes, meat cakes, and mutton cakes; and "three pills" means fish balls, meat balls, and lotus root balls. The feast will not be complete with or without pills, and without fish.

It is said that there is no feast, and there is no feast without soup.

11. Rizhao, Shandong: Flower buns In Ju County, Rizhao City, Shandong Province, there is still a custom circulating today: every year starting from the twelfth lunar month, every household steams flower buns.

There are many varieties of flower buns, including "flower", "bird" and "fish".

No matter which style it is, it all means happiness.

For example, the "fish" steamed during the Chinese New Year means "more than enough every year" in the coming year; the "fish" steamed when the children get married not only wishes the young couple a comfortable life, but also contains beautiful blessings.

12. Yanggu, Shandong: Flower cake In the western Shandong area, there is a custom of steaming flower cake every Spring Festival.

The raw material for making this kind of flower cake is mainly white flour. The maker rolls the flour into small cakes and uses long strips of bread to scoop red dates to form a date tower, which expresses people's good wishes for a prosperous life.

13. Linfen, Shanxi: Spring rolls. It is a custom in the north to eat spring rolls on the 20th day of the first lunar month. Spring rolls are the leftover vegetables that cannot be eaten during the Spring Festival. They are rolled together in noodles and fried in oil. They are very delicious.

The locals said: "After eating spring rolls, you will celebrate the New Year and you can go out to work and earn money tomorrow." 14. Xinjiang: Sanzi The Corban festival is approaching, and Muslims in the Hami region of Xinjiang are making Sanzi in preparation for the festival.

During this period, guests are entertained and gifts are given to relatives and friends.

Zongzi is made from water boiled with brown sugar, honey, pepper, red onion skin and other raw materials, mixed with an appropriate amount of eggs and clear oil, and then kneaded repeatedly into thick strips, twisted into dough, and kneaded or stretched into a uniform thickness.

, orderly connected round bars to form a ring, put them into the oil pan and fry until brown.