The Lunar New Year has passed, and it will be the Lunar New Year in a few days. Have you set foot on your way home?

when you return to your hometown, it is indispensable to get together with relatives and friends, and even more, it is indispensable to have special food in your hometown. What delicious food did your family prepare for the Spring Festival this year?

1. jiaozi

jiaozi is a traditional delicacy in China, so jiaozi is naturally indispensable in this traditional festival of the Spring Festival.

It's the time to bid farewell to the old year and welcome in the new year. The word "Zi" means "Zi Shi", which is homophonic with "Jiao". Eating jiaozi means "making friends at a younger age", which means "happy reunion" and "good luck".

The shape of jiaozi is similar to that of an ingot, and jiaozi has stuffing, which makes it easy for people to pack all kinds of auspicious and joyful things into jiaozi. Therefore, eating jiaozi during the Spring Festival also means "making money and getting treasure".

2. Spring rolls

Spring rolls are popular all over the country, especially in Jiangnan.

Spring rolls are made by frying leeks, bean sprouts, shredded pork, celery, shredded bean curd, shredded chicken, mushrooms and other ingredients together, and then wrapping the combined dishes with pancakes, which means "from beginning to end".

In some places, we eat fried spring rolls. The fried spring rolls look like pieces of gold bars, which have the auspicious meaning of "two thousand gold".

3, rice cakes

Eating rice cakes in the Spring Festival is a custom in many places, such as the red/white rice cakes in Fujian, the water mill rice cakes in Ningbo, the sweet-scented osmanthus rice cakes in Suzhou, the 111-fruit rice cakes in Beijing and the 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.

4. Sticky bean bag

Sticky bean bag is also called "Nian Dou Bao", which, as the name implies, is the new year's cake for Chinese New Year.

Most sticky bean buns are made in yellow wheat, and the stuffing is cowpea, adzuki bean or mung bean. Yellow wheat is made of broomcorn millet. The varieties of broomcorn millet are different, including black broomcorn millet and red broomcorn millet. Their viscosity and color are very different. The best shape is smooth, round and exquisite. It should be placed neatly on the curtain, and the taste is sweet and soft.

5. Tangyuan

Tangyuan, because it "floats" in a bowl, is like a bright moon hanging on the horizon, symbolizing reunion and good luck, and is mainly a Spring Festival food that southerners like to eat.

glutinous rice flour is wrapped with bean paste, nuts or meat stuffing. In the old days, it was popular in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces to wrap a penny in glutinous rice balls. Whoever eats them will have a "good luck road".

Tangyuan is popular in many areas, but Ningbo Tangyuan and Chengdu Tangyuan are the most famous.

6. Ciba

"Ciba for the New Year" is particularly popular in western Hunan.

Ciba is made of glutinous rice, which is very sticky. Eating Ciba in the New Year can "stick" the family together, implying people's reunion for the New Year.

7. Zongzi

Eating Zongzi in the Spring Festival is a custom only found in some rural areas such as Guangxi and Zhejiang, which means "wrapped". Especially for families with children, the metropolis will pack some to wish their children "high school" in the future.

8. Crispy sugar

Crispy sugar is a traditional seasonal cake for the Spring Festival. It is in the shape of a long strip and mahjong, with neat blocks. It is wrapped in wax paper, and maltose bones are evenly distributed in the crisp sugar clouds. When you eat it, it melts in your mouth, and it is sweet and greasy. I still remember the feeling of leaving fragrance all over your mouth.

9, sugar lotus seeds

Guangdong people love to eat sugar lotus seeds in the New Year. White lotus seeds are covered with a layer of icing. The inner core of lotus seeds is a little bitter, but after being covered with sugar, it is sweet, delicious and won't get angry.

11. Fried hemp leaves

Fried hemp Ye Er is an essential snack for the Spring Festival in many areas.

hemp leaves are made of pasta by deep frying, with salty and sweet tastes, and salt or sugar is added when mixing the dough. The finished hemp leaves are called "hemp leaves" because they look like leaves and are covered with sesame seeds.