The symbolism of steaming steamed buns with jujube flowers on New Year's Day is that the wealth is rolling in and the business is prospering.

The old generation likes to steam jujube steamed buns on New Year's Day, and many families still eat this on New Year's Day. Its practice is also relatively simple, only need to prepare flour, yeast and red dates can be made. Then people like to make jujube steamed buns on New Year's Day, not only because of its variety of good-looking shape and sweet taste, but also because it carries a good meaning in itself.

In fact, during the Chinese New Year, the steamed buns with jujube flowers are eaten to symbolize that in the new year everyone can be rich and prosperous. This is a very festive congratulations, and also has been passed down for a long time, should be from the Yellow River basin over the customary habits of the festival.

The origin of steamed jujube steamed bread on New Year's Day:

In Zaoqiang County, Hebei Province, there is a young man named Shan Zao and a girl named Chunhua are a pair of lovers, Shan Zao was included in the migration of people, will be moved to Shandong Province, and Chunhua is not included in the migration of people, will be left in Zaoqiang County.

In this pair of lovers farewell time, spring flower girl specially take out their home only a few steamed bread and a handful of red dates handed to the mountain jujube, and asked the mountain jujube never forget their true love and true love. After Shan Zao immigrated to Shandong, he would think of Miss Chunhua every New Year's Eve.

In order to make themselves always the mountain flower girl in the heart, in the Spring Festival every year when the mother steamed steamed steamed buns will be specially instructed to the mother steamed buns into the shape of flowers, and asked the mother in the steamed buns on a jujube, meaning that since the girl and the spring flower girl is never separated.

Later, people know the romantic love story of the jujube and the spring flower girl, and was touched by the love story of these two young people, so every New Year's Eve, people in Shandong will steam jujube flower steamed buns, and, the formation of a custom.