The Lunar New Year can be said to be the most important traditional festival in China, so there must be all kinds of delicious food during this period. Let's take a look at what traditional food we should eat during the Spring Festival.

1. jiaozi

The Beijing proverb: "It's delicious but not as good as jiaozi" is widely welcomed by ordinary people. Jiaozi, also known as "dumplings", is called "flat food" in some places because of its slightly flat shape. Multi-purpose leather bag stuffing, cooked by boiling or frying, frying, steaming and other methods. Jiaozi originated in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and it is a folk food with a long history. During the Spring Festival, jiaozi is an indispensable delicacy.

2. rice cakes

In fact, the most important traditional foods to eat during the Spring Festival are some auspicious ones, such as rice cakes. Almost all parts of the country use glutinous rice noodles and glutinous millet noodles to make sticky cakes (also called rice cakes), which means "high every year". Most of the food eaten during the Spring Festival is prepared before the festival, and most northerners eat steamed bread. In the south, rice was washed in the first few days, which is called Wannian Grain Rice, which means that there is surplus grain every year. Rice cakes are also a must-have food for Han people to celebrate the New Year. There are many kinds of cereals for making rice cakes, and the practices vary from place to place. Among them, the water mill sticky cake in Jiangnan is the most famous. In the north, people eat white cakes or sticky cakes made of yellow rice, while ethnic minorities in the southwest are used to eating glutinous rice Baba.

3. Yuanxiao

On the fifteenth day of the first month, Yuanxiao is eaten in the north and Tangyuan is eaten in the south. Yuanxiao was very popular in the Song Dynasty. It was first called "Floating Yuanzi" and later called "Yuanxiao", and businessmen also called it "Yuanbao". Usually, raw materials such as white sugar, rose, sesame, red bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnut kernel, nuts and jujube paste are used as stuffing, and glutinous rice flour is wrapped into a circle. Meat can be vegetarian, with different flavors. It can be boiled in soup, fried and steamed, which means reunion and a happy life.

4. Fish

You should use auspicious language in your New Year's diet. People in the south of the Yangtze River make tea for guests in the New Year, and put two olives in the tea tray or bowl cover, which is called "treasure-free tea". When eating in the new year, there must be fried vegetables, saying that eating "kissing hot"; Must eat bean sprouts, because soybean sprouts are shaped like "ruyi"; You must eat fish heads at every meal, but you can't eat them all, which is called "leftover fish".

5. New Year's Eve

When it comes to what traditional food to eat during the Spring Festival, the first thing that comes to mind is New Year's Eve. The slower you eat on the New Year's Eve, the better. You should take a bite of everything. There are several dishes that are indispensable in the New Year's Eve because of their auspicious meanings, such as: [Long-term dishes] (mustard greens) should be eaten one by one from beginning to end, so that the first year of the year can last for a long time; [Vegetable head] indicates a good color; [Whole chicken] symbolizes the family portrait ([chicken] is homophonic with [home]); Eating [clam] is homophonic with [fat] to get its meaning of being fat; Eating fish balls, shrimp balls and meatballs means [three yuan and] (that is, being the champion, meeting the yuan and solving the yuan). Only fish can't be eaten on the table, which means that there is more than one year.

Why do you want to eat jiaozi during the Spring Festival?

It means happy reunion and good luck.

Eating jiaozi during the Spring Festival, first, jiaozi is shaped like an ingot. People eat jiaozi in the New Year and take the sound of "making money into treasure"; Second, jiaozi has stuffing, which is convenient for people to put all kinds of auspicious things into stuffing, so as to pin people's hopes for the new year.

According to the ancient custom, jiaozi was eaten after the Chinese New Year sacrifice. During the Chinese New Year, it is of special significance to pay attention to keeping the old year's bread, eating it at the time of resignation, that is, eating it at the time of child. It means "making friends at the age of two", "making friends at the age of four" and "making dumplings" are homophonic, which means happy reunion and good luck, indicating good luck in the new year.

the origin of new year's eve

the family dinner on new year's eve is commonly known as new year's eve, also known as reunion dinner. At this time, family members should be as complete as possible, and many family members who are far away from home always have to get home before the New Year's Eve, so this New Year's Eve dinner is also called "the Year of the Group".

As early as the Han Dynasty, China had the custom of having a reunion dinner on New Year's Eve. In the old days, due to the low standard of living, you couldn't make a rich diet at ordinary times, and you can only improve it when you are in the New Year. Therefore, the quality and content of the New Year's Eve dinner are higher, and the food should be as rich as possible. First, it is to satisfy your cravings. Second, this sense of fullness indicates that you will have plenty of food and clothing in the coming year.

On this day, people are going to get together and have dinner. The annual reunion dinner shows the mutual respect and love of Chinese family members, which makes the family relationship closer.