What are the meanings of the origin of the Spring Festival diet custom?

1. In ancient times, the Spring Festival specifically referred to beginning of spring among the 24 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).

2. In ancient times, people began a "busy year" in La Worship or the sacrificial stove on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month, and the New Year didn't end until the 19th of the first month. 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).

3. Traditional Spring Festival food: jiaozi and jiaozi have 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".

4, rice cakes, rice cakes are also called "rice cakes", which is homophonic with "year after year", indicating that people's work and life are getting better every year.

5, jiaozi, eat jiaozi on the Lantern Festival, round and round.