People in northern China have a custom. On holidays, when welcoming relatives and entertaining friends, they always eat jiaozi. Especially on New Year's Day, when the whole family pays New Year's greetings, they sit around and chat with jiaozi, and talk about everything, which leads to laughter from time to time, which is very interesting. Everyone in jiaozi loves it, and the New Year's Eve dinner is especially delicious in jiaozi. When people are eating this smooth and delicious water cake, if they know more about its origin, who will not marvel at the pasta garden with a long history in our ancient civilization!

New Year cake; rice cake

During the Spring Festival, many areas in China pay attention to eating rice cakes. There are two colors of rice cakes, yellow and white, which symbolize gold and silver. Rice cakes, also known as "rice cakes", are homophonic with "getting taller every year", meaning that people's work and life are getting better every year. Therefore, a poem by predecessors called the rice cake: "The meaning of the rice cake is slightly deeper, and it is as white as silver and gold. I hope that when I am old, I will be profitable, and I sincerely hope that my wealth will come. "

The fifteenth night of the first lunar month; Lantern Festival; night of the 15th of the first lunar month；Lantern Festival；yuanxiao

Yuanxiao originally meant "the night of Shangyuan Festival", because the main activity of Shangyuan Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month was to watch the lights and enjoy the moon at night, and later the name of this festival evolved into "Lantern Festival". The Lantern Festival will be held on the fifteenth day of the first month, which will push the celebration on New Year's Eve to another climax. On the night of Lantern Festival, the streets are decorated with lanterns and people appreciate them. Solve riddles on the lanterns and eating Yuanxiao have become the customs of several generations.

zongzi

Zongzi is fragrant and elegant, soft and sticky, and has a variety of tastes, which is quite popular among people. However, glutinous rice, the raw material for making zongzi, is oily and sticky. Excessive consumption will easily lead to indigestion, which will lead to increased gastric acid secretion, abdominal distension, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other symptoms, so you should not be greedy.

mooncake

According to legend, in ancient China, the emperor had a ritual system of offering sacrifices to the sun in spring and the moon in autumn. In the folk, every Mid-Autumn Festival in August, there is also a custom about Yue Bai or offering sacrifices to the moon. The famous proverb "The moon is full on August 15th, and the moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival are sweet and fragrant" tells the custom of urban and rural people eating moon cakes on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival. At first, moon cakes were used to worship the moon god. Later, people gradually regarded Mid-Autumn Festival as a symbol of family reunion, and mooncakes gradually became holiday gifts.

Laba porridge

In addition to ancestor worship and God worship, people must also drive away epidemics and eat "Laba porridge". China has a history of drinking Laba porridge for 1000 years. On the day of Laba, Laba porridge is made in court, government, temple and people's homes.