What are the unique food customs of the Chinese people and what are their meanings?

1. Spring Festival

The first day of the first month of the Lunar New Year is an important festival for families to reunite and look forward to a good year. In the New Year's dinner, the main food of the festival in the north, a wheat-producing area, is dumplings; in the south, a rice-producing area, soup dumplings, rice cakes, pan-fried piles, and vegetarian food are the mainstays.

2, People's Day

The seventh day of the first month of the lunar calendar, also known as People's Victory Festival, People's Day and Seven Dollar Festival, is a local family festival celebrating rituals. On this day, rice is avoided, and the representative food is vegetarian dishes or vegetarian soup made of seven kinds of vegetables.

3, Lantern Festival

The 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, for the Lantern Festival, also known as the Shangyuan Festival or the Festival of Lights, in ancient times, the folk is the festival of the stars with lights and colors. People are accustomed to eat with glutinous rice flour made of yuanxiao (dumplings) (yuanxiao in ancient times known as floating yuanzi, modern will be wrapped called dumplings, shaken called yuanxiao).

4, Zhonghe Festival The second day of the second month of the lunar calendar, for the Zhonghe Festival, also known as the Dragon's Head Festival or the Spring Dragon Festival, is the legendary spring dragon headlift the day of the spring rains, more popular in the north. In ancient times, Zhonghe Festival was a festival for sacrificing spring dragons. The festival food mainly consists of dragon's beard noodles, spring cakes (dragon scale cakes), fried spring rolls, fried spring segments, fried cakes, sun cakes and five-vegetable plates, and it is often customary to serve foods such as soybean paste, noodle sauce, green onions and garlic.

5, Si Festival

March 3 on the lunar calendar, in ancient times, is a festival of excursions and sacrifices to the gods. The festival diet is mainly vegetarian.

6, Ching Ming Festival

April 4 or April 5 on the Gregorian calendar is a major festival to pay tribute to the ancestors of the tradition, the northern region of the festival diet is mainly vegetarian, like to eat toon as the raw material for the production of fried toon fish, toon noodle, toon beans, scrambled eggs toon, toon omelette and other vegetarian food.

7, Buddha Bathing Festival

The eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, for the legendary Buddha Sakyamuni was born on the day of the temple and the folk people along the beans in honor of the Buddha. In the northern region, the sap of the leaves of the tung tree is used to make green and black rice (rice), or the spring flowers of the trees to make elm cakes, rose drink and give each other the custom of linking friendship.

Two, summer festival food customs

1, Dragon Boat Festival

The fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, is the most important festival to pay tribute to the national totem of the Chinese Dragon, the same into the descendants of the Chu State to pay homage to the national ancestor of the traditional festival of Qu Yuan, the day of the grand Dragon Boat races to show the spirit of the Dragon. As the summer heat descends coincides with the season of sowing rice, everything is revived, in order to prevent five pests on the human body attack, people put their hopes once again to the food - zongzi, "zongzi" resonance with "zong", meaning clan Zong" harmonizes with "Zong", which implies the meaning of clan. Dumplings are the best way to pay tribute to ancestors and forefathers. Nationwide popular custom of eating zongzi at the Dragon Boat Festival, the North like sweet zongzi, the South like to eat savory zongzi; in some areas of Hubei, people keep inserting fragrant bushes grass, posted Zhong Kui figure, drink andrographis wine, eat zongzi (northern yellow rice, southern glutinous rice) of the festival custom to yellow sticky food to drive away the demons and evil spirits. General area of the Dragon Boat Festival in addition to eating zongzi, but also eat five yellow (eel, yellow fish, cucumber, yellow plum, andrographis) three white (white wine, white meat, white garlic) food.

2, day feeder festival

The sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, when the summer is in full swing, in order to pay tribute to the heavenly day to the earth's creation, the people of the north tend to cool the summer food (such as sour plum soup, gorgonian congee, icing sugar mung bean cooler, Hunan Lotus Red Bean Paste, Ice Flower Horseshoe Dew, eight treasures lotus seed glutinous rice cake, etc.) to worship the soil Valley Field and their ancestors. It is also customary to make black bean paste, noodle paste, yellow sauce, and brewed soy sauce and vinegar on this day, using "fermentation" to show the meaning of "entering filial piety".

3, Tanabata Festival

The seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is the traditional Chinese Valentine's Day. In order to celebrate the pure love of the cowherd and the weaving maiden in heaven and on earth in the south of the Yangtze River with exquisite delicacies and seasonal fresh fruits to show remembrance.

4, Zhongyuan Festival

The 15th day of the 7th month of the lunar calendar, in the north, is an important festival of folk worship of ancestors and remembrance of the dead. The festival diet is mainly vegetarian.

Three, fall festival food customs

1, Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the Lunar Calendar is a festival in which people look forward to a good harvest and family reunion. On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, when the colorful clouds disperse and the moon is in the sky, under the silvery moonlight, the whole family sits around a round table full of fruits and mooncakes to ****celebrate the reunion of the family. A must-eat on this night

is the mooncake. Throughout the holiday season, mooncakes of southern and northern flavors compete with each other, and the exquisite mooncakes become the food that people give to each other and express their love.

2, Chongyang Festival

The ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, in ancient times, was a festival dedicated to the sun god. Coinciding with the golden autumn, Chongyang Festival is a celebration of the harvest of the seasonal fang, but also a traditional festival of respect for the elderly and love for the elderly, the World Day food and drink activities are drinking osmanthus wine and chrysanthemum yellow wine, eating sun cake (Chongyang cake), eating crabs. People in the north in the Chongyang Festival, but also like to climb high and see the evening sun a few times sunset red.