Traditional food that must be eaten during the Spring Festival.
1, rice cake
Eating rice cakes during the Spring Festival is a custom in many places, such as red/white rice cakes in Fujian, Shuimo rice cakes in Ningbo, sweet-scented osmanthus rice cakes in Suzhou, ginkgo rice cakes in Beijing and glutinous rice cakes in the north. Because rice cakes are also called "rice cakes", which is homophonic with "getting higher every year", eating rice cakes means that people's work and life are getting higher every year.
2. Lantern Festival
In the south, it is called "Tangyuan". In Jiangsu, Shanghai and other places, it is customary to eat glutinous rice balls on the morning of New Year's Day. Eating Yuanxiao has a long history in China. By the Ming Dynasty, Yuanxiao had become a very common food, and the practice was no different from that of Yuanxiao now.
Step 3 fish
During the Spring Festival, every household will cook some meat dishes, but there is one meat dish that must be served, and that is fish. Eating fish during the Spring Festival is also very particular. Generally speaking, wealth fish is the main choice, which symbolizes that it can bring wealth. You can't separate the fish when cooking, but it must be a complete fish. You can't eat all the fish at last, so leave a bite, which means you have more than (fish) every year.
4. Babao rice
Eight-treasure rice is exquisite in use, complicated in technology, full in weight and high in sweetness, suitable for the whole family to share and enjoy, symbolizing reunion. According to folklore experts, lotus seeds in babao rice symbolize marriage harmony, longan symbolizes reunion, kumquat symbolizes auspiciousness, red dates symbolize early birth, honey wax gourd and honey cherry symbolize life is sweet, coix seed symbolizes longevity, and melon seeds symbolize safety and disaster-free. From this perspective, the eight-treasure rice is like a cornucopia, which means that the new year will be rich.
5. Chicken
Chicken is homophonic with "Ji". In Guangdong, there is a saying that "you can't do without chicken". Chicken is an essential food for Cantonese people in the New Year. People eat chicken to pray for good luck and look forward to the coming year.
6. Spring rolls
Spring rolls are popular all over the country, especially in Jiangnan generation. Spring rolls are fried with leeks, bean sprouts, shredded pork, celery, shredded tofu, shredded chicken, mushrooms and other ingredients, then wrapped in pancakes and eaten from beginning to end, which means "head to tail". In some places, they eat fried spring rolls, which look like gold bars and have the auspicious meaning of "twelve thousand gold".
7, sticky bean bag
Sticky bean bag, also known as "Nian Dou Bao", is a kind of rice cake made by northeast people during the Spring Festival. Sticky bean buns are made of yellow rice and red bean stuffing. Steamed tofu, like steamed bread, means "making a fortune" and "making a fortune", while steamed tofu symbolizes "thriving".
8. Bacon
In the past, bacon was a particularly popular flavor food in autumn and winter. After Laba Festival, basically every household began to cook sausages, bacon, preserved fish and so on. And it has become a good appetizer after the Chinese New Year.
9.wonton
Wonton is homophonic for "chaos" and "muddy hoarding". Eating wonton in the New Year takes its original meaning, which also means food Man Cang. Another reason is that wonton is shaped like an ingot, and it is also beautifully wrapped in Chinese New Year. You must pinch the two corners of the wonton skin and wrap it inside, which means "making money"
9. jiaozi
Jiaozi is an indispensable traditional food for the Spring Festival. Jiaozi's homonym "Jiaozi" means "older jiaozi", so eating jiaozi means that a new year is coming. Another reason is that jiaozi looks like an ingot. In some areas, coins are wrapped in jiaozi. Eating jiaozi in the New Year also means that the new year's financial resources are rolling in and you can win a good lottery.
10, longevity noodles
Many southern areas want to eat longevity noodles during the Spring Festival. Longevity noodles are different from ordinary noodles. Every noodle in longevity noodles is very long and elastic, and it is not easy to break. Eating longevity noodles also means that people can live a long and healthy life in the new year, and it also represents people's good wishes for the new year.