New Year's Day Diet of the Ancients

1, rice cake, also known as sticky cake, to take the meaning of the year high. In the south made of glutinous rice, the north is sticky corn. Rice cake has a long history, New Year's Day to eat rice cake prevailed in the Ming and Qing dynasties, especially popular in the South. The late Ming Dynasty "imperial capital scenery" volume 2 records, the first month of new year's day, "the early morning wash激, eat jujube cake, the day of the year cake".

2, dumplings on New Year's Day ate in the Ming and Qing dynasties in the north, such as the Ming Wanli Shen list "Wan Department Miscellany," said the Beijing suburbs of Wanping County on New Year's Day to pay homage to the "flat food, served on the long as life." In the Song Dynasty, the word "jiaozi" appeared in food, and in the Yuan Dynasty, dumplings were called "flatbread", probably from the Mongolian language. In the Ming Dynasty, dumplings were called dumpling bait, powder corner, water dumplings, and steamed hot noodle dumplings, as stated in the Zhengzhitong (正字通). In addition, there are water snacks, etc., the Qing Dynasty Beijing Banner people also called the dumplings "boiled meat and potatoes".

3, New Year's Day to eat an egg custom, in the Wu Jin period has been. It is said that at that time to eat eggs is for longevity, but to the reign of Emperor Wu of Liang when there is no longer, the main reason is because Emperor Wu of Liang Buddhism. History records:On the first day of the first month, when the raw swallowing of a chicken son of a chicken, so-called practice form.

4, New Year's Day drinking pepper wine traditional custom, mainly in Shandong Richeng, Zhejiang Jiaxing generation. Pepper and cypress wine from the pepper and cypress leaves soaked run into. According to ancient records, drink pepper and cypress wine can go sick and live a long life. History records that "on the first day of the new year, the evil wine, the new year long life cup. Cypress leaves come with the ming, pepper flowers come with the ode."

5, soup cake in ancient times refers to wheat flour products boiled in water, which is similar to the noodles we eat now. History records that "on New Year's Day, the capital's families eat a lot of cakes, the so-called year ___, or this and so on."