New Year's Day eat what food sketch

1, dumplings

Food out to pay homage to the New Year, from near and far, Yuanwu until after the burning lamp." According to this is the Tang Jinyuan pill close to the dumplings, and there are boiled and steamed. In the Song Dynasty, the word "jiaozi" appeared in the food. Yuan dynasty dumplings called "flat food", probably from the Mongolian language. Dumplings in the Ming Dynasty, such as the "correct word", said dumpling bait, powder angle, water dumplings, steamed hot noodle dumplings. In addition, there are water snacks and other names, the Qing Dynasty Beijing Banner people also called the dumplings "boiled meat and potatoes". New Year's Day to eat dumplings flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties in the north. For example, according to Shen Bang's "Miscellaneous Records of Wan Department" during the Wanli reign of the Ming Dynasty, Wanping County, a suburb of Beijing, "made flatbreads for the longevity of the elders" on New Year's Day. Ming Jiajing Shanxi "Quwo County Zhi" records: "the second day of the production of flatbread wrapped in gold, inviting son-in-laws to compete for the blessing." Yuan dynasty flat food word in folklore down.

Dumpling sketch

2, rice cake

New Year's cake is also known as sticky cake, take the meaning of the year high. In the south made of glutinous rice, the north is sticky corn. Rice cake has a long history, the Han Dynasty rice cake has been "rice cake", "cake", "bait", "mochi" and other names. In the 6th century, the recipe "food times" has the method of making rice cake "white cocoon sugar", and the Northern Dynasty "Qimin Yaojutsu" recorded the method of making rice cake by grinding rice into powder. New Year's Day to eat rice cakes prevailed in the Ming and Qing dynasties, especially popular in the south. The late Ming Dynasty "imperial capital scenery" volume 2 records, the first month of new year's day, "the early morning wash激, eat jujube cake, day year cake". Northern Hebei Jiajing "Wei County Zhi" said the local eat "steamed sheep cake".

New Year's cake sketch