What are some brief introductions to the Spring Festival?

Spring Festival is the China Lunar New Year, commonly known as Spring Festival, New Year, New Year's Eve and so on. And it is also called Chinese New Year and New Year's Eve verbally. The Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation. Influenced by China culture, some countries and regions in the world also have the custom of celebrating the Spring Festival.

According to incomplete statistics, nearly 20 countries and regions have designated the Spring Festival in China as a legal holiday in all or part of the cities under their jurisdiction. Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. The folk custom of Spring Festival was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

Seasonal food during the Spring Festival

1, creature

Jiaozi, formerly known as "jiaozi", has a tradition of eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve in the north, but the customs of eating jiaozi vary from place to place. Some places eat jiaozi on New Year's Eve, and some places eat jiaozi on New Year's Day. Northerners who don't eat jiaozi for 30 nights will feel that there is no atmosphere for the New Year. Some mountainous areas in the north also have the custom of eating jiaozi every morning from the first day to the fifth day.

2. Lantern Festival

The food that celebrates the Lantern Festival in the south is called "Tangyuan", also called "Yuanxiao", "Tangtuan" and "Floating Zi Yuan". It is one of the representatives of traditional snacks in China, and it is a spherical food made of glutinous rice flour. There are usually fillings, which are cooked and eaten with soup. At the same time, it is also the most distinctive food of the Lantern Festival.