What are the traditional foods for the Spring Festival? Introduce 7 kinds of traditional foods for 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.wonton

Wonton is homophonic for "chaos" and "muddy hoarding". Eating wonton in the New Year takes its original meaning, which also means food Man Cang. Another reason is that wonton is shaped like an ingot, and it is also beautifully wrapped in Chinese New Year. You must pinch the two corners of the wonton skin and wrap it inside, which means "making money"

3. Rice cake

Eating rice cakes during the Spring Festival is a custom in many places, such as red/white rice cakes in Fujian, Shuimo rice cakes in Ningbo, osmanthus rice cakes in Suzhou, ginkgo rice cakes in Beijing and glutinous rice cakes in the north. Because rice cakes are also called "rice cakes", which is homophonic with "getting higher every year", eating rice cakes means that people's work and life are getting higher every year.

4. Babao rice

Eight-treasure rice is exquisite in use, complicated in technology, full in weight and high in sweetness, suitable for the whole family to share and enjoy, symbolizing reunion. According to folklore experts, lotus seeds in babao rice symbolize marriage harmony, longan symbolizes reunion, kumquat symbolizes auspiciousness, red dates symbolize early birth, honey wax gourd and honey cherry symbolize life is sweet, coix seed symbolizes longevity, and melon seeds symbolize safety and disaster-free. From this perspective, the eight-treasure rice is like a cornucopia, which means that the new year will be rich.

5. Fish

Fish is indispensable on the dinner table during the Spring Festival, because fish, like "surplus", stands for "surplus" and means "surplus every year". There are many things to pay attention to when eating fish in the New Year. Fish should be the last dish of the New Year's Eve dinner, which symbolizes a "surplus" every year. In other places, fish heads and tails are kept until the first day of the New Year, which means that there is a "surplus" from beginning to end of the year.

6.chicken

Chicken is homophonic with "Ji". In Guangdong, there is a saying that "you can't do without chicken". Chicken is an essential food for Cantonese people in the New Year. People eat chicken to pray for good luck and look forward to the coming year.

7. Tangyuan

In southern China, there is a custom of eating glutinous rice balls during the Spring Festival. The "round" of glutinous rice balls means "reunion" and "perfection", which symbolizes family harmony and sweet life.