What to eat on New Year's Eve in the South

Southern New Year's Eve to eat dumplings, rice cakes, sugar rings, New Year's Eve dinner.

Because of geographic differences and different food cultures, southerners and northerners eat different foods on New Year's Eve. Soup dumplings are eaten in the south with the symbol of reunion, rice cakes with the symbol of rising success, sugar rings with the symbol of sweetness, and New Year's Eve rice is to celebrate the reunion of family members.

Eating soup dumplings is a traditional custom in the south, the outer skin of the dumplings is made of glutinous rice flour, with crushed peanuts, black sesame seeds, sugar, etc. as fillings, made of a round dumplings, dumplings, soup dumplings, "reunion" meaning.

Nian gao is one of the essential annual goods for people in the south, and the harmonic of nian gao is "year high", so nian gao has the meaning of rising step by step, getting rich and sweet, which implies a sweet life and a smooth career in the new year.

Sugar rings are a must-have New Year's snack for people in the south. The shape of the rings is chic, with the appearance of a circle and the inside resembling a five-pointed star, and the rings are made of flour and sugar, symbolizing the interlocking of the rings and the sweetness of the honey.

Customs of New Year's Eve and Spring Festival in the South?

1, dust

Generally from the twenty-fifth lunar calendar, families have begun to house inside and outside the house for a fairly thorough cleaning, families must be a big job, get a new inside and outside, with the latest face to meet the new year, not a New Year's weather.

2, for orange

South, especially in Guangdong, Hainan, especially around the New Year, people are going to be at home on the orange, called "for orange", because "orange" and "auspicious! The name is "orange", because "orange" and "auspicious" have the same sound. So every family will buy pots of orange, or tied bunches of oranges, pots of orange is generally placed in the living room, some people will also be in the pots on the red paper and black characters of the word "auspicious".

3, ancestor worship

Many areas of the South, before eating New Year's Eve dinner, to worship ancestors, people will first go to the ancestral hall to worship their ancestors, or in their own homes, light up the lamps, burn incense, set up a sumptuous dishes, led by the parents of the family in charge, to the ancestors kneeling and kowtowing to burn incense. The parents in charge of the family take the lead and kneel down to kowtow to the ancestors and burn incense. They invite the ancestors to come down to enjoy the festival and pray for the safety and prosperity of the whole family. In some places, they also burn gold foil and paper money to the ancestors. After that, the firecrackers have long been prepared, it began to eat New Year's Eve dinner.

4, lion dance

Lion dance is also one of the ways people celebrate during the Spring Festival. The Southern Lion Dance is generally popular in Guangdong, so it is also known as the Guangdong Lion. Guangdong lion dance is by a person dancing lion head, a person dancing lion tail, there is a person or two wearing a big head of Buddha masks for the introduction of the lion, play lion, single dance, and so on. The lion dancers wear various colors of lantern pants, wearing a dense buttons on the top of the Tang lantern-sleeved shirt or undershirt.