Chinese New Year Dietary Customs

The Chinese New Year customs of the Han people are generally based on eating rice cakes, dumplings, patties, dumplings, eggs, meatballs, whole fish, wine, oranges, apples, peanuts, melons, candies, tea and delicacies; accompanied by dusting, washing bedding, preparing New Year's goods, posting Spring Festival couplets, stickers, sticking New Year's paintings, sticking paper cuttings, sticking window decorations, sticking Chinese characters of good fortune, pointing candles, lighted fires, setting off firecrackers, observing the year of the New Year, giving New Year's Eve money, paying homage to the New Year, walking with relatives, visiting the graves of the ancestors, etc. The Chinese people also enjoy a lot of activities, including flower markets and social fires, which are very joyful, The Chinese celebrate the Spring Festival by hanging Chinese knots. Chinese people have the habit of hanging Chinese knots during the Spring Festival, and before the New Year's Eve, Tianjin people have the custom of asking for Chinese knots in Qiaoxiangge on the Ancient Culture Street, taking the meaning of Qiaoxiang Nafu.

Northern regions like to eat dumplings at the Spring Festival, which symbolize reunion, good luck and welcome the old and the new. In order to increase the festive atmosphere and fun, people over the generations in the dumpling filling up and down a lot of effort, people in the dumplings on the money, who ate the coming year will be rich; in the dumplings on the honey, who ate to mean that the next year sweet life and so on.

Children playing with firecrackers, but also the housewives in the kitchen is the busiest time, New Year's dishes are done a few days before, and the New Year's Eve dinner will always be in the New Year's Eve on the day of the kitchen to do out. In the north, the dumplings on the first day of the New Year are also wrapped up on the night of the 30th. At this time the cutting boards of the families are thumping and busy chopping meat and vegetables. At this time, the sound of the chopping board from every household, the sound of firecrackers from the streets and alleys, the sound of the abacus and the sound of the accounts from small stores, mixed with the sound of jokes and laughter everywhere, one after another, the ocean full of ears, interweaving into the New Year's Eve joyful music.

Eating New Year's Eve dinner is the most lively and enjoyable time for families in the Spring Festival. On New Year's Eve. Abundant New Year's dishes on the table, the whole family reunion, sitting around the table, *** eat reunion dinner, the heart of the fullness is really hard to describe. People are enjoying the table full of delicacies, but also to enjoy the happy atmosphere, the table has a big dish, cold pots, stir-fry, snacks, generally less two things, one is hot pot, one is fish. One is fish. Hot pot boiling, steaming, warm and provocative, indicating that the red hot; "fish" and "Yu" consonance, is a symbol of "auspicious celebration of surplus", but also a metaphor for "year after year". It is also a metaphor for "having more than enough for every year". There are also turnips, commonly known as "choy tau" (菜头), which is a wish for good luck, and fried foods such as lobster and popping fish, which is a wish for good luck in the family, such as "blazing fire cooking oil". Finally, more than one sweet food, blessing the sweet days ahead, this day, even if you will not drink alcohol, but also more or less drink a little.

New Year's Eve dinner hall of fame, different places in the north and south, there are dumplings, wontons, long noodles, snacks, etc., and each have their own instructions. Northern people are accustomed to eating dumplings on New Year's Eve, is to take the old and the new, "the new year," the meaning of the child. And because the white dumplings are shaped like silver dollars, a pot of dumplings on the table to symbolize the "New Year's fortune, Yuanbao rolled in" meaning. When some dumplings are wrapped, several coins sterilized in boiling water are wrapped into them, saying that whoever eats them first will earn more money. The custom of eating dumplings was passed down from the Han Dynasty. According to legend, Zhang Zhongjing, the sage of medicine, saw that the ears of the poor were frostbitten in the winter months, so he made a kind of "Cold-removing Ear Soup" for the poor to cure frostbite. He used mutton, chili peppers and some cold and warm herbs, wrapped in dough into an ear like "Jiao Er", boiled in a pot, distributed to the poor to eat, people ate, feel warm, two ear heat. Afterwards, people followed suit and the tradition has been passed down to this day. Eating wontons in the New Year is to take the meaning of the beginning. Legend has it that the world was chaotic before the creation of the world, Pangu opened up the sky and the earth, so that there is a universe of four sides, long noodles, also known as longevity noodles. Eating noodles in the New Year is to wish for a long life of 100 years.

In the north, some people also have to provide a pot of rice, burned before, to provide for the New Year, called the "New Year's Eve rice", is the yearly leftovers, year-round food, this year also ate the meaning of the food of the past year. This pot of next year's rice is generally cooked with a mixture of rice and millet, Beijing slang called "two rice", in order to have a yellow and white, which is called "gold and silver, gold and silver pots full of" the "gold and silver rice This is called "gold and silver rice". Many places in the New Year's Eve preparation of pastries and fruits, are trying to get a lucky mouth: eat jujube (early spring), eat persimmon cakes (everything is as good as it can be) eat almonds (happy people), eat long life fruit (longevity), eat rice cakes (a year higher than a year). On New Year's Eve, the family, while eating and laughing.