Hakka snacks are another part of Hakka diet, which is a "good thing" for Hakka people to eat on holidays and weddings and funerals. Almost all kinds of snacks are related to the farming season, or reflect a Hakka custom. On the first month of the Lantern Festival, Hakkas always eat soup balls and hang lanterns. There are two kinds of soup pills, salty and sweet, which bodes well for "reunion". It is the custom of Hakkas to send their relatives home for the New Year to travel far away after the Lantern Festival and eating soup pills, expressing their wish that their relatives will be safe outside for one year and come back for reunion at the end of the year. On the Lantern Festival or three days earlier, the families who "added Ding" in the previous year would hang large lanterns (Hakka dialect "Ding" and "Deng" are homonyms) on the beams in the central hall of their ancestral houses, and invite relatives and friends to eat and congratulate them. The head of the household brought the baby boy born last year to pay homage to the ancestral shrine first, and then to the elders, who expressed their wishes for "Li". After that, everyone drank heartily, ate the wine and lanterns. Generally speaking, a son hangs a lantern, and the more lanterns hung in any enclosure, the brighter it will be, indicating that people are prosperous.

On February 2nd, I took off the lanterns, burned the couplets and "Li" posted in the New Year, cleaned up and finished the food left over during the New Year, such as rice cakes and flowers, and prepared to do farm work in the spring. During the Qingming period in March, the wild wormwood was tender, so the Hakkas picked it and made it into cakes to eat. Transplanting began after the Qingming Festival, so there is a saying: "Eating wild wormwood will wear your shoulders." In Wanlv Lake Winehouse in Guangzhou, there is also a dish called "wild wormwood fried eggs". According to its boss Zhu, wild wormwood also has the effect of cooling and nourishing.

April 8th is also called Water Festival, long summer Festival, because the food eaten on holidays is poor when the appearance is yellow, and most of them are made by mixing Jiemi flour and wheat bran.

On May 5th, Dragon Boat Festival, we eat zongzi to commemorate Qu Yuan, and we also eat stuffed bitter gourd and tofu made from freshly harvested soybeans.

The harvest of crops in the first half of July 14th and the cultivation in the second half of July 14th have basically ended, and there is an atmosphere of festive harvest and holiday rest. On this day, every household in grinding bean curd eats ducks and fresh peanuts in various ways.

Eat moon cakes, stir-fried snails, chestnuts, grapefruit, yamanashi and other fruits and vegetables in the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th. Moon cakes and snails all represent reunion, and people who go out to work on this day have to go home for the holidays. In the past, there was a tradition of playing Kongming lanterns for entertainment.

The Double Ninth Festival on September is also called Ghost Festival, and the second burial of Hakka ancestors is held on this day. The snack I ate this day was nine layers of skin.

There is a saying in the Hakka area on the winter solstice in November called "Winter (Winter Solstice) is a big Chinese New Year (Spring Festival)", which means it is even more grand than the Spring Festival, because the autumn harvest is in winter, the farming has been finished, and the crops have been cultivated for one year, which is rich and gratifying. The snack to eat this day is radish paste. Because the weather is cold and dry at this time, Hakka people prepare for the Spring Festival with preserved pork and pickled vegetables at this time. The preserved pork on this day can be kept for a long time.

The Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) began on December 25th, and I was busy preparing food for the Spring Festival and welcoming my relatives who had returned far away. Eat glutinous rice-made oily fruits and large cages during the New Year, as well as Hakka dishes such as braised pork and stuffed tofu. Especially on New Year's Eve, no matter how far away it is, Hakkas have to go home to have a "reunion dinner" and reunite with their relatives.