What are the traditional delicacies and traditional foods that symbolize the Spring Festival?

On the dining table in the north, jiaozi is a feast food that no food can replace. Jiaozi, also known as Joule and jiaozi, means the alternation of the old and the new. Eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve means "making friends when you are young". Besides, jiaozi looks like an ingot. Eating jiaozi during the Spring Festival also means "getting rich".

2. Fish

The food in the Spring Festival pays attention to good meanings, and of course fish is indispensable. It is usually the last dish on the table. In some places, this dish basically stayed, meaning "more than one year". Some places are also very particular about choosing fish for the New Year's Eve dinner. Silver carp is more than one year, crucian carp is more prosperous, and salmon is more prosperous.

3. Rice cake

Early in the morning, Suzhou people make rice cakes to commemorate Wu Zixu during the Chinese New Year. Later, it gradually became popular all over the country, such as jujube rice cakes in Shandong, baiguo rice cakes in Beijing, taro rice cakes and red sugar rice cakes in Fujian, Shuimo rice cakes in Ningbo and osmanthus sugar rice cakes in Suzhou. The homophonic "rice cake" is a necessary food for the Spring Festival, which places people's expectations on it.

4. Tangyuan

On New Year's Day in Sichuan, we should have jiaozi for breakfast. On this day, jiaozi is called "Yuanbao" and eating jiaozi is called "Deyongbao", which means reunion, perfection and sweetness. Yangzhou People's Congress will eat Sixi Tangyuan on the first day of the Lunar New Year, which means all the best and family reunion. Shanghainese also eat glutinous rice balls for breakfast on the first day of the new year, which means they are full, rich and powerful.

5.wonton

In Jingjiang, Jiangsu Province, you must eat wonton whether you are entertaining guests, having a holiday or having a happy event. On the morning of New Year's Eve, every household began to cut vegetables and wrap wonton, which was eaten on the 30th to 15th of the first month. "Wonton is wine, and the more you eat it, the more delicious it is", which pinned the good wishes of Jingjiang people for the new year.

6. Bacon

Eating bacon in the New Year is a traditional custom in Guangdong, Sichuan and Hunan. Because curing bacon takes a long time, it is usually prepared after the annual heavy snow and solar terms. Bacon, sausage, preserved fish and pig's head are so delicious that people are salivating. In the old society, life was hard and material was scarce, so people pinned their good wishes on homophonic Chinese New Year food, so eating sausages during the Spring Festival was "eating often".