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What traditional things do you eat on New Year's Day?

Eat jiaozi, rice cakes, eggs, soup cakes, Ciba and other foods during the Spring Festival.

1, jiaozi: jiaozi is a traditional food in China. It is filled with flour bags and shaped like a half moon or an ingot. The wrapped jiaozi can be used to make steamed dumplings, fried dumplings or glutinous rice balls. Jiaozi originated in the Eastern Han Dynasty and was initiated by Zhang Zhongjing, a medical sage. There is a folk saying "delicious but not as good as jiaozi". During the Spring Festival, jiaozi has become an indispensable delicacy.

2. New Year cake: New Year cake is a popular traditional food and New Year food in East Asia. Early rice cakes were used to worship gods and ancestors, and later they gradually became a kind of food for the Lunar New Year, meaning "getting taller every year".

3. Ciba: Ciba is a kind of food made by steaming and mashing glutinous rice, which is a traditional folk food in China. Ciba is fragrant, sweet and sticky, and its taste is quiet and elegant, sweet and refreshing. It is a kind of food suitable for all ages, which is mainly popular in southern China and a few northern areas. Whenever there is a happy event, the local people will make brown sugar mixed with rice cakes to entertain their guests as a sign of good luck.

New year's day:

New Year's Day is not a traditional festival in China, but the traditional New Year's Day in China refers to the first day of the first month. The world holiday New Year's Day, namely Gregorian calendar 1, is commonly called "New Year" in most countries in the world. On new year's day, yuan is called "beginning", and the beginning of each number is called "yuan"; Dan means "day"; New Year's Day means "the first day". New Year's Day is also called "three yuan", that is, year yuan, month yuan and hour yuan.

The word "New Year's Day" in the history of China first appeared in the Book of Jin. In the history of China, "New Year's Day" means "the first day of the first month". The calculation method of "the first month" was very inconsistent before the period of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, and the date of New Year's Day in previous dynasties was also inconsistent. From the beginning of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, January of the lunar calendar was designated as the "first month", and the first day of January was called New Year's Day, which was used until the end of the Qing Dynasty. After the Revolution of 1911, it was decided to use the Gregorian calendar (actually used 19 12) in the first year of the Republic of China, and it was stipulated that Gregorian calendar 65438+ 10/0 was called "New Year's Day", but it was not called "New Year's Day". 1949, People's Republic of China (PRC) took 65438+ 10 1 as New Year's Day, so New Year's Day is also called "solar year", "new calendar year" or "Gregorian year" in China.