Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional festivals - New year's food

New year's food

New Year's Day foods include: jiaozi, glutinous rice balls, rice cakes, Ciba, fish, eight-treasure gourd duck, mushrooms and corn chicken soup.

1、? Jiaozi: Eating jiaozi on New Year's Day was handed down during the Qingming period. There is an old saying in China that "it is better to eat jiaozi than jiaozi", so on such an important festival as New Year's Day, of course, we should eat jiaozi, and jiaozi is a very important traditional food in the north.

2、? Tangyuan: Tangyuan came from Mingzhou in the Song Dynasty, which is now Ningbo, Zhejiang. There are many kinds of fillings for glutinous rice balls. Many people prefer sesame stuffing. There are thick black sesame seeds in the thin skin. It tastes sweet and delicious. Because glutinous rice balls symbolize reunion, I hope everyone can celebrate the New Year together in a reunion way.

3、? Rice cakes: Early rice cakes were used to worship the gods and ancestors, and later they gradually became food for the New Year, meaning "getting taller every year".

4、? Fish: the homonym of fish is "surplus", which means "surplus", that is, people hope that life will be better in the coming year.

5、? Babao Hulu Duck: Also known as Babao Fulu Duck, it has become a delicious traditional local dish because it looks like a gourd. Fulu is the homonym of the gourd, symbolizing beauty, auspiciousness and wealth. The key point of this dish is to remove the duck bones through the whole duck deboning technology, without breaking the skin, and the duck skin can not leak.

The origin of New Year's Day

Every year, the Gregorian calendar 65438+1 October1is New Year's Day, "Yuan" means beginning, and "Dan" means day, that is, "the day when we first met, the first day of a new year". The "yuan" on New Year's Day means the beginning, which means first, and the beginning of each number is called "yuan"; "Dan" is a hieroglyph, with the upper "sun" representing the sun and the lower "one" representing the horizon.

"Dan" means that the sun rises from the horizon of Ran Ran, symbolizing the beginning of a day. People put "Yuan" and "Dan" together, which means the first day of the New Year.