What is eaten on New Year's Day

Foods eaten on New Year's Day are: dumplings, dumplings, rice cakes, pepper cypress wine, feed spring plate.

1, dumplings

Dumplings, the first name of the hundun, but also corner, corner, plaque food, flat food, jail pill, powder corner, dumpling bait, dumpling bait, water snacks, water dumplings, dumplings, dumplings, and so on a variety of names. Dumplings are cooked in various ways, including boiling, steaming, frying and baking. Since the Song Dynasty, there has been a custom of eating dumplings on the winter solstice, and since the Ming Dynasty there has been a custom of eating dumplings on New Year's Day.

2, soup dumplings

Soup dumplings is one of China's traditional food, is very popular in the South, like the New Year's Day, Lantern Festival, such traditional festivals will be cooked on a soup dumplings, symbolizing the reunion.

3, rice cake

Rice cake has a very good meaning, in ancient times there is the custom of eating rice cake on New Year's Day, eat the rice cake has the good intentions of the year high, originated in Jiangsu and Zhejiang area, but now the South is also very popular to eat rice cake.

4, pepper and cypress wine

Pepper and cypress wine refers to pepper wine and cypress wine. Chinese folk custom. On the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar to sacrifice to the ancestors or dedicated to the parents to show that the birthday congratulations. The traditional custom of drinking pepper and cypress wine on New Year's Day, mainly in Shandong Richeng, Zhejiang Jiaxing generation.

5, feed the spring plate

Feed the spring plate, also known as the five Xin plate, is a custom, the basic flavor of its basic are "Xin" of the dish is the main, take its harmonic for the "new", which means the beginning of a new year. On New Year's Day, with vegetables, cakes and bait, fruits, candies, etc. gathered in a large ceramic plate, family and friends to gift each other, *** with the enjoyment of taking vitality and vigor. Welcome the spring Nafu meaning, symbolizing the renewal of all elephants, auspicious folk customs.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Feeding Spring Plate