What is the custom of eating during the Spring Festival?

The first day of the first month: Spring Festival

1, diet: jiaozi

Spring Festival, also known as the lunar calendar, commonly known as "Chinese New Year", is the most solemn and lively traditional festival in our country. We are all familiar with the Spring Festival, so jiaozi is indispensable?

Eating jiaozi means "making friends when you are young", and "making friends" means "making friends when you are young", which is homophonic with "jiaozi" and means "happy reunion" and "good luck".

2. The 15th day of the first month: Lantern Festival.

Diet: Yuanxiao

Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in China, which existed in the Qin Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago. Eating Yuanxiao has long been a traditional activity. Yuanxiao is also called Tangyuan and jiaozi.

These names "Reunion" are similar in pronunciation, meaning reunion, symbolizing family reunion, harmony and happiness. People also miss their departed relatives and place their best wishes on their future lives.

3. the second day of February: spring ploughing festival.

Diet: pig head

The Spring Farming Festival is also called Dragon Head Raising Festival, Farming Festival, Spring Dragon Festival, Qinglong Festival and Dragon Head Festival. People celebrate "Spring Farming Festival" to show respect for dragons and pray for rain so that God can bless the harvest.

Although different places have different customs on this festival, their diets are also classified, such as jiaozi, Spring Cake, Oil Cake and Longxu Noodles. Most of them still eat pig's head meat. There has always been a saying that "the dragon looks up and eats the pig's head", in order to hope that the new year will have a good sign.

4. The day before Tomb-Sweeping Day: Cold Food Festival

Diet: eat cold food or cooked food.

The Cold Food Festival, also known as "Smoke-free Festival", "Cold Food Festival" and "Hundred Days Festival", follows the ancient habit of easy fire, and the ancients will hold grand sacrificial activities in this season.

Put out all the kindling handed down from the previous year, that is, "ban fire", and then rehearse again, and take out new kindling as the starting point of production and life in the new year, which is called "changing fire" or "inviting new fire"

5. Day 108 after the solstice winter: Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Diet: eggs

Tomb-Sweeping Day is also called an outing festival. In Tomb-Sweeping Day, the dietary customs vary from place to place, and different provinces and regions give Tomb-Sweeping Day everything to eat.

For example, Qingming dumplings, shepherd's purse dumplings, Qingming dumplings and so on. However, eating eggs in Tomb-Sweeping Day is as important as eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival, which also reflects people's reverence and belief in life and fertility.