Chinese traditional New Year's Eve what to eat

1, fried corn: Southeast Jin, the custom of eating fried corn, folk proverb "twenty-three, do not eat fried, the first day of the New Year, a pot down," said. People like to fry corn with maltose bonded together, frozen into a large block, eat crispy and sweet

2, sticky cake: in Shandong Ruxi area folk "twenty-three, sticky cake sticky" ballad. Every year on the 23rd day of the lunar month, is the family steamed sticky cake eat sticky cake days, meaning sticky stove king's mouth, so that it on the sky to say good things, do not say bad things on earth. Sticky cake with yellow rice, red dates and other raw materials, sweet and strong, soft in the mouth, take the "year high" meaning of celebration. In addition, Hainanese people use coconuts as ingredients to make coconut cake to eat and pray for blessings, to take the "year high" meaning of auspicious celebrations.

3, dumplings: the northern New Year's evening customary to eat dumplings, meant to give Zao Wang Wang send off, meaning "send off dumplings to meet the wind face. Dumplings should be placed squarely on the offering table when making offerings. In addition, there is a folk saying that "dumplings are as delicious as they are delicious". Dumplings have become an indispensable delicacy during the Chinese New Year festivities.

4, sugar melons: sugar melons are an ancient Han Chinese tradition, both as food for the Spring Festival and as sacrificial offerings (Zaoshen). In the past, the day of the 23rd to sacrifice the king of the stove, buy some maltose made of sacrificial candy such as sugar melons, Guandong sugar, both in his ascension to the Jade Emperor there to report, ask him to say more beautiful meaning, but also to sugar stick on the mouth of the king of the stove to prevent him from saying more of the heart. There is a saying in Beijing: "Master Zaowang ascends to heaven and says many good things".

5, rice crackers: the lunar month 23, folk commonly known as the "small year", Guangxi Wuxuan, Gui Ping and other local folk have the custom of making rice crackers. Rice crackers are made of glutinous rice flour as the main ingredient, peanuts, sesame seeds, sugar as ingredients, into the mold made into a round, and then steamed at high temperatures, eat up a unique flavor, "reunion" meaning.