Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional stories - What traditional food do you eat during the Spring Festival?

What traditional food do you eat during the Spring Festival?

Spring Festival is the most important traditional festival in China. When I was a child, the most anticipated day was Chinese New Year. Besides lucky money and new clothes, there are all kinds of mouth-watering foods. Although people's living standards have improved now, big fish and big meat are no longer only available on holidays, but those traditional foods with full flavor of the year are still indispensable protagonists on the table. If you don't eat these delicious foods during the Spring Festival, you always feel that something is missing. So, what are the traditional foods that must be eaten during the Spring Festival? 14 kinds of delicious food to eat in the New Year, which one is necessary in your hometown for the New Year?

1, jiaozi On the New Year's Eve dinner table in the north, jiaozi is a big feast food that can't be replaced by any delicacies. Jiaozi, also known as Joule and jiaozi, means the alternation of the old and the new. Eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve means "making friends when you are young". Besides, jiaozi looks like an ingot. Eating jiaozi during the Spring Festival also means "getting rich". Steamed dumplings 2, wonton, homophonic "chaos" and "muddy hoarding", eat wonton in the New Year to take its original meaning, it also means food Man Cang. Another reason is that wonton is shaped like an ingot, and it is also beautifully wrapped in Chinese New Year. You must pinch the two corners of the wonton skin and wrap it inside, which means "making money" Wonton 3. Eating rice cakes during the Spring Festival is a custom in many places, such as red/white rice cakes in Fujian, Shuimo rice cakes in Ningbo, osmanthus rice cakes in Suzhou, ginkgo rice cakes in Beijing and glutinous rice cakes in the north. Because rice cakes are also called "rice cakes", which is homophonic with "getting higher every year", eating rice cakes means that people's work and life are getting higher every year. Rice cake 4, the use of Babao rice Babao rice is beautifully made, the process is quite complicated, the weight is sufficient, and the sweetness is high, which is suitable for the whole family to share and enjoy, symbolizing reunion. According to folklore experts, lotus seeds in babao rice symbolize marriage harmony, longan symbolizes reunion, kumquat symbolizes auspiciousness, red dates symbolize early birth, honey wax gourd and honey cherry symbolize life is sweet, coix seed symbolizes longevity, and melon seeds symbolize safety and disaster-free. From this perspective, the eight-treasure rice is like a cornucopia, which means that the new year will be rich. Fish is indispensable on the dinner table during the Spring Festival, because fish, like surplus, stands for surplus, which means "surplus every year". There are many things to pay attention to when eating fish in the New Year. Fish should be the last dish of the New Year's Eve dinner, which symbolizes a "surplus" every year. In other places, fish heads and tails are kept until the first day of the New Year, which means that there is a "surplus" from beginning to end of the year. Chopped pepper fish 6. Chicken is homophonic with "Ji". In Guangdong, there is a saying that "no chicken is indispensable", and chicken is an essential food for Cantonese people in the New Year. People eat chicken to pray for good luck and look forward to the coming year. 7. Tangyuan has the custom of eating it during the Spring Festival in southern China. The "round" of glutinous rice balls means "reunion" and "perfection", which symbolizes family harmony and sweet life. Tangyuan 8. Ciba is especially popular in western Hunan. Ciba is made of glutinous rice, which is very sticky. Eating Ciba in the New Year can be used to "stick" the family together, which means reunion in the New Year. Brown sugar Baba 9. Spring rolls are popular all over the country, especially in Jiangnan generation. Spring rolls are fried with leeks, bean sprouts, shredded pork, celery, shredded tofu, shredded chicken, mushrooms and other ingredients, then wrapped in pancakes and eaten from beginning to end, which means "head to tail". In some places, they eat fried spring rolls, which look like gold bars and have the auspicious meaning of "twelve thousand gold". Fried spring rolls 10, noodles Some areas in Fujian have the custom of eating noodles for the New Year. Noodles, commonly known as longevity, are eaten during the New Year and also mean "long-term". 1 1, bacon used to be a particularly popular flavor food in autumn and winter. After Laba Festival, basically every household began to cook sausages, bacon, preserved fish and so on. And it has become a good appetizer after the Chinese New Year. Weenie 12, sticky bean bag sticky bean bag, also known as "Niandou Bao", is a kind of rice cake made by the northeast people during the Spring Festival. Sticky bean buns are made of yellow rice and red bean stuffing. Steamed tofu, like steamed bread, means "making a fortune" and "making a fortune", while steamed tofu symbolizes "thriving". 13, Zongzi Eating Zongzi in the New Year is a custom in some rural areas such as Guangxi and Zhejiang, which means "wrapped". Especially for families with children, the metropolis will pack some wishes for their children to "high school" in the future. 14, bean sprouts, bean sprouts, Suzhou people also gave it a good name, called "ruyi cuisine". People in Shanghai and Suzhou must eat "ruyi dishes" at the New Year's Eve, wishing the New Year "contentment". In addition, soybean sprouts are sprouted vegetables, symbolizing rise and growth, which is very auspicious. What kind of bean sprouts do people usually eat during the Spring Festival? What else do you know about some delicious food during the Spring Festival? Welcome to leave a message in the comments section.