Eating jiaozi on New Year's Day flourished in the north of Ming and Qing Dynasties. For example, wanping county, a suburb of Beijing, said in Shen Bang's Miscellaneous Notes of Wan Department during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, "Make a flat meal on New Year's Day, and serve a long life." Eating rice cakes on New Year's Day was popular in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, especially in the south. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Volume II of "A Brief Introduction to the Scenery of the Imperial Capital" recorded that on New Year's Day of the first month, "I was excited to wash, eat jujube cakes, and eat rice cakes every day". In Jiajing, Hebei Province in the north, Wei County Records said that local people ate "steamed mutton cakes".

Step 2 drink pepper and cypress wine

It has appeared in the Four People's Moon Order in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Pepper is Zanthoxylum bungeanum. The ancients said that pepper is the essence of Yuhengxing, with a fragrant smell, which makes people light and resistant to old age. Cypress is cypress leaf, which was regarded as an elixir by the ancients, and it can avoid all diseases. Pepper and cypress can be soaked in wine separately, or they can be put into wine together for drinking. Drinking pepper and cypress wine can get rid of illness and live longer. Drinking pepper and cypress wine has been handed down among the people, and it has been practiced in Licheng, Shandong Province and Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province in the Ming Dynasty.

Step 3 drink peach soup

That is, take the leaves, branches and stems of peaches and drink them by boiling. The ancients took peaches as the essence of the five elements, which could resist evil spirits. Make a hundred ghosts, so drink them. Eating soup cake: ancient food where wheat flour products were boiled in water. Soup cake is noodles. Noodles and other foods were popular on New Year's Day in Song Dynasty.

How to celebrate New Year's Day:

I. Vacation

It is known all over China and even the whole world that many countries have designated New Year's Day as a legal holiday and have a holiday on New Year's Day. After the founding of New China, it was also stipulated that New Year's Day would be a legal holiday.

Second, the party

Nowadays, it is more common to organize activities by groups, such as New Year's Day parties, hanging slogans to celebrate New Year's Day, or holding collective activities. In the past, there were organizations beating gongs and drums and dancing folk dances collectively, but now it can be seen in TV documentaries. Today, with the development of science and technology, it has evolved into a gala or something.

In recent years, there have been tours, parties and other programs. Anyway, there are not many traditions on New Year's Day, so it is a holiday for everyone to play. Even New Year's Day only means a day's holiday for the younger generation.

Third, eat a big meal

Preserving China's traditional way of celebrating is in the folk, especially in rural areas. Every new year's day, every household will set off firecrackers, kill chickens and geese, and after worshipping the gods of all parties, it is a family reunion meal.