What are the food cultures in the Spring Festival?

After the mid-Ming Dynasty, jiaozi gradually became a traditional food for the Spring Festival in the north. Because jiaozi is shaped like an ingot, it means "turning money into treasure". During the Spring Festival, jiaozi pays attention to eating his bags at twelve o'clock on New Year's Eve. At this moment, it is the beginning of another year, in order to take the meaning of "making friends young".

Second, eat rice cakes.

Eating rice cakes in the Spring Festival means getting better every year, so as to pray for the new year, which means that everything goes well every year. The types of rice cakes are: white rice cakes and yellow rice cakes in the north; There are water mill rice cakes in Jiangnan; There is glutinous rice in the southwest; There are red turtle cakes in Taiwan Province province.

Third, eat New Year's Eve dinner.

It is a custom in the south of the Yangtze River to prepare the New Year's dinner in advance, put it in a bamboo basket, put fruits such as red orange, Wuling, water chestnut and gold ingot cake on it, and insert pine and cypress branches, which is called "New Year's dinner". Northerners' New Year's Eve dinner is made of gold, silver and rice (yellow rice and white rice). The dinner was decorated with dates, chestnuts, longan and fragrant branches, with pine and cypress branches inserted.

Spring Festival Code of Conduct Note:

1, Happy New Year. During the Chinese New Year, everyone will go out to pay a New Year call and say: Happy New Year! I would also like to add to my neighbors: adults and children are also good! Say to the businessman: Congratulations on getting rich! In short, be gentle, respectful and polite.

2, kowtow. On the morning of New Year, the younger generation will kowtow to the elder, and the elder will give the younger generation lucky money. Now the tradition has faded, and few adults kowtow. Generally, red envelopes are only for children.

3. Red envelopes. Chinese New Year red envelopes are children's patents. On New Year's Day, it was given by some elders, that is, lucky money. Since the second day of junior high school, relatives and friends have visited their friends. There are not many red envelopes, for happiness and good luck.

4. behavior. Say something auspicious during the Chinese New Year, and don't talk loudly, swear, hit children, throw things, tamper with other people's things, clean up and do other work.