What does Hebei eat for the New Year?

1. There is an old saying in China that "it's delicious but not as good as jiaozi". As the most representative traditional food in China, jiaozi is essential during the Spring Festival. Generally, before New Year's Eve 12, people wrap up jiaozi and wait until midnight (at night 1 1 to early morning 1) to cook food. This is the handover of the new year and the old year. Eating jiaozi means "making friends when you are young" in Chinese. During the Spring Festival, no matter how rich the dishes are, China people will never forget to eat jiaozi.

2, rice cakes

Rice cake is also a traditional Spring Festival food in Hebei. In some places, rice cakes are also called "rice cakes", which means "getting higher every year" in Chinese homonym, indicating that people expect to live better every year. Rice cakes are usually made of glutinous rice flour and yellow rice flour, which are divided into yellow rice cakes and white rice cakes. The way to eat rice cakes can be boiled with vegetables and meat, or steamed with osmanthus flowers and roses. It is said that rice cakes were first used to worship ancestors and gods, and later gradually became Spring Festival food, with a history of more than 2,000 years.

3.wonton

Eating wonton in the New Year takes its original meaning. Legend has it that Pangu created the world, ending the chaotic state and leading to the creation of the universe. Then take the homonym of "wonton" and "mud hoard" to indicate that the food is full.

4. Long noodles

Longevity noodles, eating longevity noodles in the Spring Festival means that you can live to be 100 years old. In ancient times, pasta was called cake, so noodle soup was also called soup cake a long time ago. Its practice is to tear the noodles into pieces and throw them into the pot, similar to the "crow's head" and "monkey's ear" eaten in the north now. After the Tang dynasty, rolling pins were used, and then long noodles, dried noodles, short noodles and so on began to appear.