What should I eat for the Spring Festival?

Traditional foods on New Year's Day include jiaozi, rice cakes, eggs, glutinous rice balls and spiced dishes.

1, creature

Eating jiaozi on New Year's Day is a traditional custom in the north, because jiaozi symbolizes reunion and good luck, and represents a safe and smooth year. On New Year's Day, family members get together to pack jiaozi, cook, eat, talk about family, share troubles in work and life, and create a warm family atmosphere.

2, rice cakes

Eating rice cakes on New Year's Day means that the new year is "higher and higher" and better every year. The rice cake tastes soft and sweet, and it is also a traditional food for the New Year.

Step 3: eggs

Eating eggs on New Year's Day is also a custom in some areas. Eating eggs on New Year's Day is not only delicious, but also symbolizes reunion. An egg is a perfect ellipse. Eating eggs represents family reunion.

4. Tangyuan

South China also has the habit of eating jiaozi on New Year's Day, which is the same as eating jiaozi on New Year's Day. Tangyuan is rolling, bite by bite, soft and sweet, nutritious and delicious. The moral is also very good. Tangyuan means round and round. Eating glutinous rice balls at the beginning of the new year is very good.

5. Spiced dish

Five coriander is five kinds of spicy. As a food in Yuan Dynasty, it was first seen in the local chronicles of Zhou Dynasty between Wu and Jin Dynasties. It is said that eating five parsley in the morning of January is "helping to create five zang-organs qi" On New Year's Day in early spring, onions, garlic, leeks, chrysanthemum and mustard are eaten together, which means welcoming the New Year. It is called five coriander.