The foods eaten on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year are as follows:
1. Dumplings
Because dumplings look like ingots, eating dumplings during the Chinese New Year means "bringing wealth and bringing treasure" "The auspicious meaning. The choice of dumpling fillings is directly related to its meaning. The most common leek filling means long-term wealth, because long-lasting means long time and long-term, which is called long-lasting wealth. The typical winter cabbage stuffing with meat means hundreds of wealth.
2. Eight-treasure rice
There must be eight-treasure rice during the Spring Festival reunion, and there are always more "eight treasures". Each "treasure" has a meaning, kumquats represent good luck, and red dates It means giving birth to a child early, honey cherry and honey winter melon symbolize sweetness, melon seeds symbolize peace and quiet, and there are also sweet-scented osmanthus sprinkled with sugar.
3. Zheluo
On this day, the whole family eats Zheluo together. The so-called folding basket is a hodgepodge of leftover meals from the first to the third grade of junior high school. "Zheluo" is a unique term in old Beijing and Hebei area.