The Spring Festival is getting closer and closer, and people are beginning to prepare for the Spring Festival family dinner. Many people think that going to a restaurant saves time and effort, but eating at home seems to be more delicious. The following is the symbolic significance of my careful recommendation of Spring Festival food for everyone, hoping to help you. The symbolic meaning of food

1. Eating jiaozi symbolizes health and longevity

Eating jiaozi on the first day of the first month of the first month is the case in almost every family in northern China. This meal in jiaozi is different from other jiaozi in a year. This jiaozi meal is required to be wrapped on New Year's Eve and eaten at midnight. Eat jiaozi just to get it? Older sex? Meaning of. This custom began in the early years of the Ming Dynasty. Sex? The homonym evolved into? Jiaozi? . At the dawn of the first day, northerners eat jiaozi in every household. In order to get lucky, northerners often put coins, sugar, peanuts, dates and chestnuts together with meat stuffing into the jiaozi in the New Year. People who eat coins symbolize making a fortune in the new year; People who eat sugar say that the next year will be sweeter; Eating peanuts symbolizes health and longevity.

2. Eating rice cakes symbolizes that there is surplus grain every year.

Almost all parts of the country make sticky cakes (also called rice cakes) from glutinous rice noodles and glutinous millet noodles, which means? Every year? . Most of the food eaten during the Spring Festival is prepared before the festival, and most northerners eat steamed bread. The south is the first few days to wash rice, named? Ten thousand years of grain and rice? It means that there is more food 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. Drinking chicken soup symbolizes the peace of Qingtai

In some places in Hubei, drinking chicken soup during the New Year symbolizes the peace of Qingtai. Among them, the main labor force has to eat chicken feet, which means? Grab money in the new year? ,? A promising young man? If you want to eat chicken wings, it means that you can fly high, and when you are a family member, you will eat the head of a chicken, right? Get ahead? Meaning. Zigui people eat fried Artemisia annua for the first meal of the Spring Festival, which is homophonic? Baihao? For good luck. In Shashi area, you should eat eggs for the first meal during the Spring Festival, which means? Real, good luck? . In case of guests, eat two soft-boiled ones, and you can see the yolk through the protein? Poached eggs? , which means? Silver wrapped in gold, gold wrapped in silver, get gold and get silver? . Xiaoshi food

hawthorn porridge: 3g of hawthorn, 1g of rice, 1g of sugar (diabetics may not add it). Boil hawthorn with water, take appropriate amount of juice, add rice to cook porridge, and add sugar to boil when cooked. During the Spring Festival, due to excessive meat consumption, indigestion, acid regurgitation, epigastric fullness, abdominal pain and diarrhea, etc.

Chen Pizhou: 15g of dried tangerine peel (double the fresh ones) and 5g of rice. Decoct pericarpium Citri Reticulatae in water to get juice, and cook rice into porridge; Or grind dried tangerine peel into powder, take 3-5g each time, and take it in gruel, one dose per day. It can be used for invigorating stomach, resolving phlegm and relieving cough; It is suitable for spleen and stomach qi stagnation, abdominal distension, dyspepsia, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, cough with excessive phlegm, chest and diaphragm fullness and other symptoms.

cardamom porridge: 1g of nutmeg (ground), 2 slices of ginger (chopped) and 5g of rice. Rice porridge, cooked with minced cardamom and Jiang Mo, boiled and taken, can stimulate appetite and digestion, warm the middle and lower the qi; It is suitable for spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, indigestion, vomiting and diarrhea, abdominal distension, abdominal pain and bowel sounds.

Qumi porridge: 15g of Massa Medicata Fermentata, 1g of stir-fried malt, 1g of burnt hawthorn and 1g of rice. Mash the Massa Medicata Fermentata, take appropriate amount of decoction, and then add rice to cook porridge, one dose per day. Can strengthen the spleen and stomach. It is suitable for dyspepsia, indigestion, acid regurgitation, bloating, loose stool, etc. Health-keeping methods

It is a good time to adopt the natural qi to nourish the yang by insisting on exercise, spring, blooming trees and fresh air. Move? It is the most important part of nourishing yang. Such as walking, jogging, doing exercises, playing ball games, etc., or going for a spring outing in the suburbs and scenic spots. It can not only broaden the mind and nourish the mood, but also make the qi and blood smooth, stagnate and evacuate, improve the cardiopulmonary function, strengthen the body and prevent diseases.

pay attention to nourishing the liver. Yang in spring and summer, Yin in autumn and winter? . Bad emotions can easily lead to stagnation of liver qi, dysfunction of neuroendocrine system and decline of immune function, which can easily lead to psychosis, liver disease, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and infectious diseases. Therefore, we should pay attention to emotional health in spring and maintain an optimistic and cheerful mood.