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Special activities and traditional food during the Spring Festival

Spring Festival is an important traditional festival for us, and it is a folk festival integrating blessing, entertainment and food. Let's take a look at the special activities and traditional food I arranged for you during the Spring Festival. Welcome to read, for reference only.

Special activities of the Spring Festival

paste up Spring Festival couplets

In order to increase the festive atmosphere of the Spring Festival, the first important thing for every household is to post Spring Festival couplets, New Year pictures and blessings, and then hang up red lanterns. Red Spring Festival couplets and lanterns have beautiful meanings and represent prosperity.

Prepare new year's eve dinner

New Year's Eve is one of the most important customs. The dishes on New Year's Eve are very particular and have a good meaning. For example, there must be fish at the New Year's Eve, which means more than one year. Lettuce means making money and so on.

Reunion with family

As the Spring Festival approaches every year, people who go out to work will go home for the New Year, no matter how far away. Wanderers will go back to their hometown to reunite with their families. China people attach great importance to family reunion during the Spring Festival.

set off firecrackers and fireworks

During the Spring Festival, fireworks and firecrackers will be set off in many places because it is a way to celebrate the Spring Festival. However, firecrackers and fireworks are not allowed in ordinary cities for fear of causing fire.

Pay new year's call

From New Year's Day, we will all visit relatives and friends to keep in touch with each other. Relatives should have contacts, and their feelings will be deeper. New Year greetings mainly start from the elders at home. After the younger generation pays New Year's greetings, the elders will give the younger generation lucky money.

Visit flower markets and temple fairs.

Visiting temple fairs is one of the folk activities during the Spring Festival. There are puppet shows, Chinese stunts, martial arts conferences, lantern festivals and other theme activities, which are a good place for Spring Festival tourism.

Traditional cuisine of the Spring Festival

1: jiaozi

Jiaozi is a traditional folk diet with a long history in China, which is deeply loved by people. There is a saying "delicious but not as good as jiaozi". During the Spring Festival, jiaozi will definitely become an indispensable delicacy at the New Year's Eve dinner.

2. Rice cake

As a kind of food, rice cakes have a long history in China. It is said that rice cakes were first used to worship gods and ancestors on New Year's Eve, and later developed into food for the Spring Festival. The rice cake is not only a kind of holiday food, but also brings people new hope with the passing of a year. As a poem in the late Qing Dynasty said, "People's hearts are high, and food is harmonious, so that the year is better than the year to pray for the year." It means that every year goes well.

3: Lantern Festival

Yuanxiao has many names in history, and the north and the south have different names for it. All kinds of Yuanxiao produced in different places have different flavors, but they all have the meaning and symbol of reunion, which are deeply loved by the masses and become indispensable holiday food for the Lantern Festival.

4: Laba porridge

Laba porridge, also known as eight-treasure porridge, is made of eight materials (such as longan, coix seed, cereal, glutinous rice, mung bean, red bean, kidney bean, peanut, etc.). ).

5: Spring pancake

Dietary customs of Han nationality in early spring. Spring pancake is a pancake baked with flour and usually eaten with rolled vegetables. At first, spring cakes and vegetables were put on a plate, which became "spring vegetables". Beginning of spring eats spring cakes to welcome spring and pray for a bumper harvest.

Dietary taboos during the Spring Festival

Don't make these ten taboos about what to eat during the Spring Festival!

Festivals are like stops on the journey, just like the rain in spring. On this busy day, everyone is looking forward to the festival. People who have been busy for a year are bound to celebrate the Spring Festival. However, experts remind people not to forget disease prevention and health care during festivals, so as to have a healthy, happy, safe and auspicious Spring Festival.

Patients with liver disease should avoid "drinking"

Drinking alcohol in patients with liver disease will directly harm liver cells, and even cause degeneration or necrosis of liver cells, leading to further deterioration of the condition.

Patients with gallbladder diseases should avoid "oil"

During the holiday season, the food is greasy. If patients with gallbladder diseases eat a lot of greasy food, it will increase the burden of gallbladder and induce acute cholecystitis. Therefore, patients with gallbladder disease should avoid greasy food.

Patients with colds should avoid "gathering"

During the Spring Festival, the weather is cold and people are prone to catch a cold. If they visit relatives and friends together, it is easy to cause cross-infection and epidemic of diseases. Therefore, patients with colds should not go out, and it is best to rest at home, which is not only conducive to the recovery of the disease, but also to avoid infecting others.

Patients with pancreatic diseases should avoid "satiety"

During the festival, there are rich foods. Eating too much will stimulate the pancreas to secrete a lot of pancreatic juice, which will increase the pressure of the pancreatic duct, lead to the rupture of the pancreatic duct and induce acute pancreatitis.

Patients with hypertension should avoid "noisy"

During the festival, relatives and friends get together, and many people are busy, which can make the brain in a state of excitement, leading to increased catecholamine secretion, accelerated heartbeat, accelerated blood flow, arteriolar spasm and elevated blood pressure, thus inducing the onset of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

Patients with coronary heart disease should avoid fatigue.

Overworking or playing too much during the festival will make the heart beat faster, increase the heart load and raise blood pressure, which may induce angina pectoris, myocardial infarction or stroke.

People with diabetes should avoid "sweets"

During the festival, diabetics should avoid "sweets", otherwise it will increase the burden in the human body and may even endanger their lives.

Patients with vasculitis should not smoke.

During the festival, relatives and friends often go home to "pay New Year's greetings", and patients with vasculitis frequently smoke to entertain guests, which will increase platelet aggregation, dissolve fibrin, and make the blood in a hypercoagulable state, thus aggravating the condition.

Patients with peptic ulcer should avoid "boil"

Chinese people have the habit of "keeping watch" on New Year's Eve. If patients with gastric and duodenal ulcer stay up late with their families or watch TV all night, they will be too tired or lack of sleep, which will easily lead to the onset or aggravation of the disease.

Patients with chronic respiratory diseases should avoid "cold"

During the Spring Festival, the temperature is low. Patients with respiratory diseases such as bronchitis and emphysema should pay attention to cold and warmth, avoid catching a cold and prevent the recurrence of old diseases.