The content of the Spring Festival festival diet handbills

Chinese New Year festival diet handbook content can be referred to as follows:

One, Lahai congee

"Lahai Festival" on this day in the Chinese folk have eaten Lahai congee custom. Drinking Laha congee in our country has been dry years of history, Laha congee, also known as "everyone rice", is to commemorate the national hero Yue Fei a holiday food customs. The pre-Qin waxing day in the winter solstice after the third eleventh according to historical records, China's history of drinking Laha congee, has been a dry years. The earliest began in the Song Dynasty, every Lahai this day, regardless of the rich or poor, families have to drink Lahai porridge.

The earliest Laha congee is cooked with red beans, and then evolved, plus local characteristics, gradually colorful. "Laha congee" is also called "seven treasures congee" "five flavors congee", not only fragrant and sweet, but also can smooth the stomach gas, fluid, and therefore quite popular with people like to eat.

Second, the Spring Festival to eat rice cakes

Eating rice cakes means that everything is going well year after year. The types of rice cakes are: northern white cake cake, yellow rice cake; Jiangnan water mill rice cake: southwest of glutinous rice: Taiwan has red turtle cake. Ming and Qing Dynasties, is the cake has been developed into a year-round supply of snacks on the market, and there is a difference in flavor between the north and south. Northern rice cakes have steamed, fried two kinds of southern rice cakes in addition to steaming, fried, there are still pieces of fried, soup cooking method.

Three, the northern New Year's Eve dinner has a tradition of eating dumplings.

Eating dumplings is a unique way to express people's desire to pray for good luck and good fortune as they leave the old and welcome the new. According to China's ancient timekeeping system, 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. the next day for the Zi Zi. "This is the time when the New Year meets the old year. Dumplings mean that the new year is intersecting the old year, and eating dumplings for the Chinese New Year is considered to be a great luck. In addition, the dumplings are shaped like Yuanbao, which means that wrapping the dumplings means wrapping the good fortune and eating the dumplings symbolizes a rich life.

Four, eat dumplings.

The Lantern Festival, the Taoist called "on the Yuan Festival". Lantern Festival to eat Lantern, is to take the "group as the moon," the auspicious meaning. Ming Dynasty, the Lantern Festival in Beijing has been very common, the practice is no different from today. The Qing Dynasty during the Kangxi period of the dynasty and the wild prevalence of "eight treasures Lantern", Ma Si Yuan Lantern.