South Chinese New Year custom

The southern Chinese New Year customs are as follows:

1, the first day in South China to cook rice cakes and eat jiaozi. Southerners pay attention to New Year's Day when celebrating the Spring Festival. They must get together to eat rice cakes and make jiaozi. Eating rice cakes is a good sign of good luck, and of course eating glutinous rice balls is the same, symbolizing reunion. Southerners generally eat glutinous rice balls with white sugar, black sesame seeds or other bean products.

2. On the second day of the second year, the South will have a New Year's Eve dinner. In some areas in the south, we must eat New Year's Eve, especially those who go out for business. Many people will focus on one dish when eating New Year's Eve. This dish is barbecue. The roasted meat must have a red skin and looks particularly appetizing, which is a good sign of health.

Eat glutinous rice balls on the fifteenth day of the first month. Most southern families have the traditional custom of getting together to eat jiaozi on the morning of the Spring Festival. It is said that Yuanxiao symbolizes family reunion, and eating Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month is the same custom all over the country. The custom of eating glutinous rice balls on the Lantern Festival was formed in the Song Dynasty. Yuanxiao was originally called "Tangyuan" because it boiled and floated on the water. There is a bright moon in the sky, jiaozi in the bowl, and every family is round and round, symbolizing reunion and good luck.

4. Children and adults eat doughnuts together. Eating doughnuts is actually a favorite food for all children, because doughnuts are not only delicious, but also very beautiful in shape, unique in shape and beautiful in meaning. The shape of the doughnut is an outer circle with a five-pointed star inside, so the meaning of the doughnut is interlocking, endless and prosperous.

5, eat hot pot. Hot pot and fish are usually eaten on New Year's Eve in the south. Hot pot is boiling, steaming, warm and sultry, and thriving. Many people like to eat hot pot during the Spring Festival. On the one hand, all kinds of delicious food can be eaten in hot pot, regardless of meat and vegetables. Secondly, eating hot pot in the New Year means thriving and winning a good prize. Many hot pot restaurants specially offer Spring Festival packages during the Spring Festival, and families get together to eat a special hot pot, which is warm and harmonious, giving people the impression that the atmosphere is better.