What food do people eat during the Spring Festival?

In the past, in Beijing and Tianjin, people usually cooked rice, stewed pork, beef and mutton, stewed chicken and cooked several dishes.

Shaanxi family banquets are generally four or eight bowls. Four bowls are stir-fried dishes and cold dishes, and eight bowls are mainly stewed dishes and cooked food.

Only meat dishes in southern Anhui include braised pork, tiger skin, meatballs, moo Shu pork, steamed pork, braised pork, pork liver, pork heart and pork belly products, as well as all kinds of fried pork slices and shredded pork.

Eastern Hubei is "three steamed", "three cakes" and "three pills". "Three steaming" means steaming whole fish, whole duck and whole chicken; The "three cakes" are fish cakes, meat pies and sheep cakes; "Three pills" are fish pills, meatballs and lotus root pills.

Generally, people in Harbin fry eight dishes, 10 or 12 or 16. The main ingredients are nothing more than chicken, duck, fish and vegetables.

The New Year's Eve dinner in Gannan is usually 12 dish.

Some places in Zhejiang are generally the "top ten bowls", seeking the color of "complete happiness", mainly chicken, duck, fish and various vegetables.

Nanchang, Jiangxi generally has more than a dozen dishes, paying attention to four cold dishes, four hot dishes, eight big dishes and two soups.

The dishes vary from place to place!

In Suzhou, there must be vegetables (happy food), bean sprouts (Italian food) and celery (diligent) on the dining table.

There must be a carp weighing about 1 kg in central and southern Hunan, called "Tuannian Fish", and a pig elbow weighing about 3 kg, called "Tuannian Elbow".

There are two fish on the dining table in central and southern Anhui. One is the whole carp, which can only be seen but not eaten. It shows respect for ancestors, and it also means more than one year. The other is silver carp, which is edible and symbolizes the prosperity of children and grandchildren.

The first bowl of Lai in Qimen family banquet is "Zhonghe", which is made of tofu, mushrooms, winter bamboo shoots, shrimp skin and fresh meat, meaning "harmony is precious".

There is a bowl of "chicken catches beans" on the dining table in Hefei, which means "grab money and get rich". The housekeeper wants to eat a chicken leg, which is called "grasping the money claw", which means making a fortune in the coming year.

Anqing's head should eat a bowl of noodles before meals, which is called "money standard"

Nanchang area must eat rice cakes, braised fish, fried rice noodles, eight-treasure rice and boiled thick soup, which in turn means annual rise, fish every year, abundant crops, string rice, eight-treasure rice and prosperity every year.

The first meal of the new year

The first meal of the Spring Festival in Hunan is to eat "rice cakes", which means "getting better every year", while a few Miao people in Hunan eat sweet wine and zongzi for the first meal of the Spring Festival, which means "life is sweet and the grain is plentiful".

In some places in Hubei, the first meal of the Spring Festival is chicken soup, which symbolizes "peaceful and clear collar". In addition, the main labor force in the family must eat chicken feet, which means "grabbing money in the New Year"; Young students want to eat chicken wings, which means they can fly high; Family members eat chicken bones, which means "getting ahead".

Jingzhou, Shashi area, the first meal to eat eggs, meaning "true, auspicious." Guests should eat two half-cooked "poached eggs", and the yolk can be seen through the protein, which means "gold is covered with silver, gold is covered with silver, and gold is covered with silver".

The first meal in Poyang, Jiangxi Province is to eat jiaozi and fish, which means "making friends" and "more than a year". Some people put candy, flowers and silver coins in jiaozi, which means "sweet life", "immortality" and "getting rich in the new year".

In some places in Guangdong, the first meal of the Spring Festival is to eat "grain for ten thousand years", that is, to prepare enough food for the whole family for three days of the Spring Festival, which means "don't worry about eating or drinking". In Chaozhou, the first meal is often "rotten round" fried with rice flour and dried radish, and "five-fruit soup" boiled with Gordon Euryale seeds and lotus seeds, which means "life is sweet and has a long history".

Guangxi Zhuang people eat sweets at the first meal of the Spring Festival, which means that life in the new year is beautiful and sweet.

People in southern Fujian eat noodles for the first meal during the Spring Festival, which means "growing old every year". Sausages, preserved eggs and ginger are eaten in Zhangzhou, which means that "the days are getting more and more prosperous".

In some places in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the first meal of the Spring Festival is a "spring dish" consisting of celery, leeks and bamboo shoots, which means "hard work for a while".

In some places in Anhui, everyone should eat a bite of raw radish at the first meal of the Spring Festival, which is called "biting spring", which can "sterilize and prevent diseases and make the New Year auspicious".

In some places in Guanzhong and Henan, the first meal of the Spring Festival is cooked with rice and noodles in jiaozi, which is called "gold thread running through an ingot" and "silver thread hanging gourd".

There is a "long-year dish" in the first meal of Spring Festival in Taiwan Province Province, which is a kind of mustard with long stems and leaves and bitter taste. Some even add slender vermicelli to dishes, which means "endless and immortal".

The New Year's Eve dinner in southern Henan is eaten until midnight. When the New Year bell rings, a plate of fish is served, which means more than a year. On the morning of the first day, jiaozi was cooked with noodles, which means money-oriented, which means making a fortune.

Shanghainese eat dumplings, rice cakes, bee cakes, rice cakes and cloud cakes. On New Year's Day, the fable is "getting higher every year" and "getting higher step by step". In addition, eating soybean sprouts (also called "ruyi cuisine") symbolizes all the best, and eating sprouted vegetables (soaking broad beans) means making a fortune.

On New Year's Eve in Sichuan, people usually eat hot pot. On the first morning, they eat glutinous rice balls, which means reunion.