Chinese custom what should be eaten on the New Year?

1, the year dumplings?

Nanning people have a small year to eat "rice dumplings" custom, rice dumplings is a symbol of good luck in the New Year, as the saying goes: "rice dumplings, rice dumplings, high school (dumplings)". The year dumplings and the Dragon Boat Festival cold dumplings are not the same, it has a filling, large and small, long and short, round and flat. After peeling off the leaves, the skin is glutinous rice, the filling is mung beans and pork, and some people put their favorite food for filling.

2. Pasta?

People in the Shandong Peninsula and most of the people since the lunar calendar after the twenty-third lunar month, the family is busy doing big date biscuits (also known as big steamed buns), reunion cake, peach and other pasta flowers, said the family reunion, the days of the year.

This system is relatively troublesome to do, after the dough wake up, and then knead and then wake up, and then made into a variety of patterns of pasta modeling after the wake up again, to be the face of the wake up before the steamer, this steamed out of the pasta is also known as the "noodle flower", very tasty, but it is very laborious.

3, fried corn?

Southeastern Jin Dong area, 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.

4, sugar melon?

Zao sugar is a kind of maltose, sticky, it is pumped into a long sugar stick called "Guandong sugar", pulled into a flat round type is called "sugar melon". In winter, put it outside the house, because of the cold weather, the sugar melon solidified solid and some tiny bubbles inside, eat up the crunchy, sweet and crispy, a unique flavor.

Sugar Melon divided into sesame and no sesame two kinds of sugar made into melon shape or melon shape, the center is empty, the skin is not as thick as five points, although the size of the different, but the transaction is still calculated by the amount, the big sugar melons weighing one or two pounds, but used as a front to buy very few people.

5, dumplings?

Dumplings are essential. Northern New Year's night customary to eat dumplings, meant to give Zao Wang Wang send off, meaning "send off dumplings to meet the wind face". When you make offerings, the dumplings are placed squarely on the offering table. 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.

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