wonton, braised pork, jiaozi, long noodles, rice cake, boiled chicken, shrimp, pork knuckle, bacon sausage, Four Joy Meetballs, sweet and sour pork ribs.
1. Braised pork
Braised pork, as a traditional dish on the family dinner table, means that the coming year will be full of prosperity and prosperity. This famous dish is also an essential dish for New Year's Eve.
2. jiaozi
is one of the traditional foods in China. Also known as flat food or boiled cake. In ancient times, there were only wonton and no jiaozi. Later, the wonton was made into a crescent shape and became jiaozi. In the Tang Dynasty, the habit of eating jiaozi had spread to the remote areas of China. On New Year's Eve, as soon as twelve o'clock strikes, we begin to eat jiaozi, so it is the time of the year, which means that the old and the new alternate and the time of the year comes.
3. Long noodles
are also called longevity noodles. Eat them in the New Year and wish you a hundred years of longevity. All pasta in ancient times were called cakes, so noodle soup was also called soup cakes at first. At first, the noodles were not rolled or pressed, but the reconciled noodles were torn into pieces by hand in the pot, similar to the practices of "crow's head" and "monkey's ear" eaten in the north. It was not until the Tang Dynasty that noodles were rolled with chopping boards that long noodles, short noodles, dry noodles, plain noodles, meat noodles and dried noodles gradually appeared.
4, rice cakes
The custom of eating rice cakes in the Spring Festival was popular in the Song Dynasty and flourished in the Ming Dynasty. Eating rice cakes, from the auspicious meaning of "sticky (sticky) high (cake) every year", is interpreted as the meaning of rising year by year.
5. Boiled chicken
Chicken is the first thing in a table of New Year's Eve. Besides boiled chicken, you can also make chicken into other flavors according to your own preferences, such as chicken in sauce and oil.