What to eat on New Year's Day

What to eat and drink on New Year's Day: dumplings, rice cakes, hard-boiled eggs, candies, and in some areas fish, hot pots and Chinese food.

1, dumplings:

Dumplings have long been not only a delicacy, but also a representative of Chinese cuisine. Every part of it contains Chinese culture, and it is a must-have food for every family, even on the night of the 30th, expressing people's aspirations and demands for a better life.

Dumpling, also known as dumplings, is a traditional Chinese food, evolved from wontons, originating from the ancient Chinese horns, formerly known as "Jiao Er", is a staple food and local snacks in northern China, as well as the New Year's food.

2, rice cake:

Rice cake (Rice cake) is a traditional food of the Han Chinese people, belonging to the Lunar New Year's seasonal food, rice cake is sweet and savory, containing protein, fat, carbohydrates, niacin, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium and other nutritious health elements.

Nian gao has three colors: red, yellow and white, symbolizing gold and silver, and is also known as "nian nian gao", which is the same as "nian nian gao", implying that people's work and life are improving year by year.

3, Boiled Eggs:

Boiled Eggs (Boiled Eggs), one of the most common ways to eat eggs, is to put the eggs into the water to cook and become. Boiled eggs, if you use high heat, easy to cause rapid expansion of the air inside the shell and lead to shell burst; if you use low heat, and extend the time of cooking eggs, and not easy to grasp the degree of good eggs old and tender. Practice has proved that boiled eggs to medium fire is most suitable.

4, candy:

Fruit is a kind of candy confectionery, refers to the sugar as the main ingredient of a snack. If fruits or nuts are coated with sugar, they are called sweets (e.g., candy canes).

In Asian cultures, chocolate and chewing gum are often considered to be a type of candy. In Europe and the United States, candy refers only to products made with sugar or maltose. In ancient times, Europe and the United States even used honey as a raw material to make candy, but because too much honey is not easy to control and is not suitable for industrialized production.

5, fish:

Nian Nian Yu is a delicious dish, belonging to the Cantonese, Lu or Zhejiang cuisine. In the traditional Chinese New Year's Eve customs, many places pay attention to the New Year's Eve dinner table must be a dish is fish, and this dish is left uneaten, symbolizing the year, the next year have a good life.

6, hot pot:

Hot pot is not only food, but also contains the connotation of food culture, for people to taste times add interest. Eat hot pot, men and women, young and old, family and friends around the steaming hot pot, arm **** words, a big mouthful, warmth ripples, overflowing with a warm and cordial atmosphere, suitable for the family reunion of this traditional Chinese culture.

7, Chinese food:

Chinese food banqueting etiquette is said to have begun in the Duke of Zhou, thousands of years of evolution, of course, there will be no more "Mengguang took the case of Lianghong," like the day, but also still finally formed a set of food and drink eating etiquette generally accepted by everyone today, is the ancient dietary etiquette inheritance and development. The inheritance and development of the ancient dietary etiquette. Chinese food diet etiquette due to the nature of the feast, the purpose is different; different regions, is also very different.