1. Spring Festival: 1. Rice cake.

Eating rice cakes during the Spring Festival means "the year is better than the year, and it is used to pray for good luck." It means that everything will go well every year.

The types of rice cakes include: white rice cakes and yellow rice cakes in the north; water-milled rice cakes in the south of the Yangtze River; glutinous rice cakes in the southwest; and red turtle cakes in Taiwan.

The name "cake" already existed in Yang Xiong's "Dialect" in the Han Dynasty, and it became popular in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.

Jia Sixie's "Qi Min Yao Shu" records the production method.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Shigao had developed into a snack available all year round on the market, with different flavors from the north to the south.

There are two types of northern rice cakes: steamed and fried. In addition to steamed and fried, southern rice cakes can also be fried in slices and boiled in soup.

2. Dumplings.

There is a tradition of eating dumplings for New Year's Eve dinner in the north, but the custom of eating dumplings varies from place to place. In some places, dumplings are eaten on New Year's Eve, in some places they are eaten on the first day of the new year. In some mountainous areas in the north, dumplings are eaten every morning from the first to the fifth day of the lunar month.

Dumpling custom.

Eating dumplings is a unique way to express people's wishes for blessings and good luck when bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new.

According to ancient Chinese timekeeping, 11 pm to 1 am the next day is Zi hour.

"Jiaozi" is the moment when the new year meets the old year.

Dumplings represent the beginning of the new year, and eating dumplings during the Spring Festival is considered good luck.

In addition, dumplings are shaped like ingots. Making dumplings means wrapping up good luck, and eating dumplings symbolizes a wealthy life.

Unlike the north, New Year’s Eve dinner in the south usually includes hot pot and fish.

The hot pot is boiling, steaming, warm and exciting; "fish" and "yu" are homophonic, symbolizing "abundance in auspicious celebrations" and also a happy life, "abundance every year".

There are also some places in the south that pay attention to eating rice cakes during the Spring Festival. The rice cakes are eaten every year, which symbolizes that the harvest is getting higher and the state is getting higher year by year.

3. Lantern Festival.

In the south, they are called "tangyuan". In Jiangsu, Shanghai and other places, there is a custom of eating glutinous rice balls on the morning of New Year's Day.

The Lantern Festival is called the "Shangyuan Festival" by Taoism.

According to Yi Tuzhen's "(Girl) Huanhuan Ji" of the Yuan Dynasty, quoted from "Sanyu Tie": After Chang'e flew to the moon, Yi became ill with longing for her.

On the night of the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, a boy suddenly came to see him and claimed to be Chang'e's envoy. He said: "Madam, I know that you are thinking about me, and there is no way to come down. Tomorrow is the full moon. You should make pills with rice flour, and they will be like the moon. Place them in the northwest of your room.

Calling my wife's name, she will come on three eves. "Yi acted according to the law, and Chang'e came as expected.

It can be seen that eating Yuanxiao during the Lantern Festival has the auspicious meaning of "the whole group is like the moon".

During the Ming Dynasty, Lantern Festival was already very common in Beijing, and the practice was the same as today.

During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, "Eight Treasures Lantern Festival" and Ma Siyuan Lantern Festival were popular in both the government and the public.

In the early years of the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai banned the shouting of Yuanxiao because it had the same pronunciation as "Yuan Xiao".

5. Spring cakes.

Spring rolls are also called spring cakes. Eating spring cakes at the beginning of spring is an ancient custom in China.

In the Jin Dynasty, there was the "five taro plate" or "spring plate", which was to put spring cakes and vegetables on the same plate.

During the Tang and Song Dynasties, the custom of eating spring pancakes in spring became more and more popular, and the emperor gave them to his ministers and officials. The spring dishes at that time were extremely exquisite: "green silk, red silk, golden roosters, jade swallows, extremely exquisite preparations, each plate costs ten thousand yuan."

Folks also use it to give each other gifts.

The food custom of eating spring pancakes has also affected the brother ethnic groups.

For example, when Yelu Chulu followed Genghis Khan in his expedition to the Western Regions, he ordered the chef to make spring dishes and wrote a poem: "Yesterday, I accidentally forgot about the spring day. I tried to make a spring dish and I tasted it. In this case, the silver thread was messy at the beginning, and the lotus root silk was cooked in a sand vase.

. Evenly knead the peas and scallions until they are white, and finely cut the wilted artemisia and sprinkle with chives. It’s the same as He Zeng, so why wait for the paste?”

As spring cakes have developed to this day, their shapes vary from place to place, and the eating time also varies from place to place.

Some are baked or steamed; some are as big as a round fan or as small as a Dutch nail.

2. Dragon Boat Festival: 1. Zongzi: Zongzi was called "corner millet" in ancient times. The real written record of zongzi can be found in "Fengtu Ji" in Jin and Zhou Dynasties; and the zongzi that has been spread orderly and has the longest history is Xi'an's honey cold zongzi.

Contained in Tang Wei Juyuan's "Recipe".

2. Realgar wine: The custom of drinking realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival was extremely popular in the Yangtze River Basin in the past.

3. Five yellows: There is a custom of eating "five yellows" during the Dragon Boat Festival in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Wuhuang refers to cucumber, eel, yellow croaker, duck egg yolk from Gaoyou, and realgar wine.

In addition, there is also the custom of eating tofu during the Dragon Boat Festival in northern Zhejiang.

4. Cake making: The Dragon Boat Festival is a grand festival for the Korean people in Yanbian, Jilin Province.

The most representative food of this day is the fragrant cake.

Da Gao is a rice cake made by placing mugwort and glutinous rice in a large wooden trough carved from a single log and beating it with a long-handled wood.

This kind of food is very ethnic and can add to the festive atmosphere.

5. Jian Dui: In Jinjiang, Fujian Province, every household also eats "Jian Dui" during the Dragon Boat Festival, which is fried into a thick paste with flour, rice flour or sweet potato flour and other ingredients.

Legend has it that in ancient times, it was the rainy season in southern Fujian before the Dragon Boat Festival, and it rained continuously. Folks said that God had penetrated a hole and wanted to "repair the sky."

After eating "Jiandui" during the Dragon Boat Festival, the rain stopped, and people said that the sky was healed.

This food custom comes from this.