The first day of the first month: the Spring Festival

1, diet: dumplings

The Spring Festival, also known as the lunar year is commonly known as the "New Year", this is China's folk the most grand, the most lively of a traditional festival. We are naturally no strangers to the Spring Festival, and dumplings are naturally essential.

Dumplings are eaten on the occasion of the "New Year's Day", which is the time of the year when the "Zi" is "Zi Shi", and the "Jiao" is the same as the "Dumpling", which is the name of the festival. The word "dumpling" harmonizes with "饺", which means "joyful reunion" and "good luck".

2, the first month of the fifteenth: Lantern Festival

Diet: Lantern

Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, as early as 2000 years ago in the Qin Dynasty, eat Lantern Lantern Lanterns have become a must-execute traditional activities, Lantern Lantern Lanterns are also known as dumplings, dumplings.

These names "reunion" word sound similar to take the meaning of reunion, symbolizing the family reunion, harmony and happiness, people also use this nostalgia for loved ones away from home, send a good hope for the future of life.

3, the second day of February: Spring Plowing Festival

Diet: pork

Spring Plowing Festival, also known as the Dragon's Head, Agricultural Festival, Spring Dragon Festival, Green Dragon Festival, Dragon Festival, and so on, the people celebrate the "Spring Plowing Festival" to show respect for the dragon and pray for rain, so that God blessed a good harvest.

While the custom of this festival varies from place to place, and the food is also divided into different categories, such as dumplings, spring pancakes, oil cakes, dragon's beard noodles, etc., but most of them are still mainly to eat pork, and there is a tradition of the saying that "the dragon carries the head and eats the head of the pig," which has been passed down in hopes of having a good omen for the New Year.

4, the day before Qingming: Cold Food Festival

Diet: eat cold or pre-cooked food

Cold Food Festival, also known as the "anti-smoking festival", "Cold Festival", "Hundred and Five Festival

The Cold Food Festival, also known as the "No Smoking Festival", "Cold Festival" and "Hundred and Five Festival", follows the ancient custom of changing the fire, and the ancients had to perform grand rituals during this season.

The fire passed down from the previous year all extinguished, that is, "banning the fire", and then re-drill flint to take out the new fire, as the starting point for the new year's production and life, so-called "change the fire" or "please new fire "

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5, the 108th day after the winter solstice: Qingming Festival

Diet: eggs

Chingming Festival, also known as the Treading Green Festival, Qingming this day of the dietary customs around the world are different, different provinces, regions make the Qingming this day to eat what are there.

For example, Qingming 馃, chestnut dumplings, Qingming dumplings and so on, but Qingming to eat eggs is as important as the Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi, which also implies that people for the fear of life, fertility and reverence for the feelings of faith.