Chinese New Year Food Customs

On the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, during the Chinese New Year, every household across the country will carry out New Year's activities, and food and drink is one of the important elements.

Ten days before the festival, people began to busy purchasing New Year's goods, all chickens, ducks, fish and meat, tea, wine, oil and sauce, North and South fried goods, sugar bait and fruits, are to buy enough. Jiangnan custom, before the New Year's Day to do a good job before the New Year's rice, served in a bamboo basket, above the red orange, Wu Ling, water chestnuts and other fruits and Yuanbao cake, inserted pine branches, called "New Year's rice.

Northern people on New Year's Eve rice, is made of gold and silver rice (yellow and white rice), rice with jujube, chestnut, longan, incense sticks embellished, inserted with pine and cypress branches. Northern people eat dumplings on New Year's Day. Some dumplings are filled with sugar, which means that they are sweet for the New Year; some are filled with peanuts (known as "long-life fruit"), which means that people can live a long life after eating them; and one dumpling is filled with money, which means that whoever eats it will be "lucky". The dumplings are shaped like Yuanbao, and the dumplings are boiled together in the New Year, which is called "Golden thread through Yuanbao".

New Year's food and drink are to take auspicious words. Jiangnan people New Year's tea to honor guests, tea tray or bowl cover put two olives, known as "no treasure tea". New Year's dinner, there must be fried greens, said to eat "pro hot"; must eat bean sprouts, because soybean sprouts shaped like "Ruyi"; every meal must eat fish head, but can not eat all, called "eat leftover fish (Yu) "

New Year's Eve

New Year must eat rice cakes, the same wind in the North and South. Eating rice cakes to wish life "high year after year". Suzhou's osmanthus sugar rice cake, Ningbo's water-ground rice cake, Beijing's red date rice cake and hundred fruit rice cake are all the best New Year's pastries.

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And the New Year's greetings we've become so accustomed to lah, dust sweeping lah-~all of them. You can go to the website of the reference material to see oh