Spring Festival traditional cuisine

1. What are the traditional specialties of the Spring Festival: jiaozi?

As the saying goes, "delicious but jiaozi", in the blood of northerners, "jiaozi" is the "artery" of Pentium, which is indispensable. Jiaozi has many auspicious meanings, and jiaozi symbolizes reunion with Acacia. At the same time, it means resigning the old and welcoming the new; In addition, jiaozi is shaped like an "ingot" made of gold and silver in ancient China. Eating jiaozi means "getting rich". The warm family atmosphere is the most important reason why people still cherish jiaozi.

2. What are the traditional specialties of the Spring Festival: oil angle?

Oil angle is a home-cooked snack in Guangzhou. Different places taste different, and the raw materials used are different. Some are sweet and some are vegetables. The method is basically the same, but the stuffing used is different. The sweet one is wrapped with sugar and the salty one is replaced with vegetables. Oil angle is essential for Chinese New Year in Guangdong. In the past, there were 10 and 20 days before the Spring Festival, and every household would fry oil angle. Open a wok and fry some oil angle, so that the next year will be like that wok-oily and rich.

3. What are the traditional specialties of the Spring Festival? Ciba

Ciba is also a delicious snack in the Spring Festival, especially in the Wuyishan generation in the south, where the whole family plays Ciba together and happily prepares for the Spring Festival. Ciba is mainly made of glutinous rice, which is soaked and steamed in a steamer, and then quickly put into a stone spoon to make it soft and elastic. While it is hot, make the rice paste into a big or small ball, stir-fry sesame powder with white sugar (or stir-fry soybean powder with white sugar) and roll it on a plate to eat. It tastes sweet. Whenever there is a happy event, the local people will make brown sugar mixed with rice cakes to entertain their guests as a sign of good luck.

4. What are the traditional specialties of the Spring Festival? Tangyuan

Eat jiaozi on the Lantern Festival, round and round. Tangyuan is one of the representative snacks in China with a long history. According to legend, Tangyuan originated in the Song Dynasty. At that time, a novel food was popular all over the country, which was made of various fruit baits and kneaded into balls with glutinous rice flour outside. After cooking, it tastes sweet and delicious, which is very interesting. Because this kind of dumplings cooked in a pot will float and sink, it was originally called "floating Zi Yuan", and later it was renamed Yuanxiao in some areas.

5. What are the traditional specialties of the Spring Festival? Spring rolls.

Spring rolls are an indispensable food on the table during the Spring Festival. Spring rolls, also known as spring cakes and pancakes, are popular traditional snacks in Fuzhou with a long history, which is a good omen for celebrating the Spring Festival. Spring rolls evolved from ancient spring cakes. According to the ancient book Chen's "Guang Ji at the Age of Years", "Spring cakes, lettuce and spring vegetables are eaten in spring." There is also a saying in "Yanjing Years" in the Qing Dynasty: "Playing spring means that rich people eat more spring cakes." It can be seen that the folk custom of making and eating spring cakes in spring has a long history.

6. What are the traditional specialties of the Spring Festival? A pile of fried food.

Fried piles are called hemp balls in North China, hemp balls in Northeast China and Zhenbao in Hainan. They are a kind of fried pasta in China. Because they are very popular in Guangdong, they are also a kind of Guangdong oilseed. Stir-fried with glutinous rice balls and sesame seeds, some wrapped in stuffing such as beef paste and bean paste, and some not. It is also a common New Year dish in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, which means "a house full of gold and silver".

7. What are the traditional specialties of the Spring Festival? Rice cakes.

Northerners eat jiaozi and southerners eat rice cakes. Rice cakes have yellow and white colors, which symbolize gold and silver respectively. The rice cake is also called "rice cake", which is homophonic with "getting taller every year", meaning that people's work and life are getting better every year. Therefore, there is a poem by predecessors called rice cake: the meaning of rice cake is a bit deep, as white as silver and as yellow as gold. I look forward to getting old and making high profits. I sincerely hope that the money will come. Another old Beijing traditional time-honored brand is called "rice cake money".