The Origin of Spring Festival and the Traditional Food of Spring Festival

In ancient times, the Spring Festival especially referred to beginning of spring in the twenty-four solar terms, and was also regarded as the beginning of a year. Later, it was changed to the first day of the first month of the summer calendar (the first day of the first lunar month).

In ancient times, people started a "busy year" in La Worship on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month or on the sacrificial stove, and the New Year didn't end until January 19. In modern times, people set the Spring Festival on the first day of the first lunar month, but it generally doesn't end until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month (Lantern Festival).

Traditional food for the Spring Festival:

Chinese dumpling

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".

New Year cake; rice cake

The rice cake is also called "rice cake", which is homophonic with "getting taller every year", indicating that people's work and life are getting better every year.

tangyuan

Eat jiaozi on the Lantern Festival, round and round.