What do you want to eat in the New Year?

In the New Year, we should eat fish, rice cakes, glutinous rice balls, jiaozi, peppers and cypress wine.

1, fish

On New Year's Day and New Year's Eve, people like to cook a fish, especially braised fish, which means that the new year is booming, more and more every year.

2, rice cakes

Rice cakes, "rice cakes". The origin of rice cakes is the same as that of New Year's Eve. It is said that at the end of each year, a monster named Nian will come to the village to steal food and hurt people. In order to protect themselves, villagers will hang strips of food at home, so that the young animals will not hurt people when they are full. Today, eating rice cakes has become a good omen for the coming year. Three colors, red, yellow and white, mean gold and silver. White is like silver, yellow and gold, and red is "bonus".

3. Tangyuan

Eating jiaozi in the New Year means reunion. On this day of universal celebration, people like to reunite with their families, eat delicious food, share the harvest of this year, sum up the gains and losses, and think about the goals and plans for the new year. Eating glutinous rice balls on New Year's Day also hopes that the whole family will be round and round.

4. jiaozi

On New Year's Eve, jiaozi is definitely an indispensable staple food. Jiaozi's "making friends" means celebration, reunion and good luck. Because the shape of jiaozi is very similar to that of an ingot, eating jiaozi on New Year's Day has different meanings. Cabbage stuffing means "hundred treasures"; Leek stuffing, meaning "long wealth"; Fish stuffing means "surplus wealth".

5. Pepper and cypress wine

Zanthoxylum bungeanum and cypress leaf wine is made by soaking Zanthoxylum bungeanum and cypress leaf. According to ancient books, drinking pepper and cypress wine can cure diseases and prolong life. The traditional custom of drinking pepper and sesame wine on New Year's Day is mainly in Licheng, Shandong Province and Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province. According to historical records, Zheng Dan broke the evil wine and the longevity cup in the New Year. Cypress leaves to write the inscription, pepper flowers to praise.