After eating, go out to pay a New Year call, from near to far, from noon until after burning the lamp. "On this basis, Tang Prison Pill is similar to jiaozi, and it is boiled and steamed. The word slot appeared in food in Song Dynasty. In Yuan Dynasty, jiaozi was called "flat food", which probably came from Mongolian. Jiaozi in Ming Dynasty, as Zhengzitong said, called dumpling bait, fenjiao, water jiaozi and steamed noodles dumplings. In addition, there are water snacks and other names. In the Qing Dynasty, the Beijing flag bearer also called jiaozi "boiled cake". 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." When Jiajing was in the Ming Dynasty, Shanxi Quwo County Records recorded: "Two-day flat food is guaranteed, and husbands are invited to compete for happiness." The word flat food was handed down among the people in the Yuan Dynasty.

Jiaozi stick figure

2, rice cakes

The rice cake is also called sticky cake, which means high every year. It is made of glutinous rice in the south and sticky millet in the north. Rice cakes have a long history, and rice cakes in the Han Dynasty have been named as rice cakes, cakes, baits and cakes. The recipe "Shiji" in the 6th century has the recipe of "white cocoon sugar" for rice cakes, and Qi Min Yao Shu in the Northern Dynasty recorded the method of grinding rice into powder to make cakes. 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".

Rice cake stick figure