What do Cantonese people eat on the Lunar New Year

1, small year Guangdong people eat rice cake, sugar ring, dumplings, fried rice cakes, preserved meat, fried pile, egg scattered, turnip cake, smile mouth date and other food.

2, in Guangdong, the New Year's Eve must be the New Year's cake, even if you do not eat, but also in the home to put a piece, Figure a "good intention". Rice cakes are all because of a good luck - "Nian Gao", there is a wealth, step by step, sweet meaning, implying a new year of successful and sweet life. Cantonese people like to cut the rice cakes into slices and fry them in a pan. One bite, the surface of the aroma, the inside is sticky and soft rice cake, coupled with the sweet flavor, adults and children love it.

3, sugar ring, in the festive food, sugar ring is probably the most beautiful eye-catching, it is a chic shape, outside a circle, inside like a five-pointed star, symbolizing interlocking, the meaning of endless life.

4, sugar ring has a long history. According to "Dongguan County Records", the sugar ring is Dongguan ancestors moved south. One of the foods brought by the north. In ancient times, the Central Plains, sugar ring made of flour, and later to the Lingnan was changed to glutinous rice flour, put into the frying pan fried until cooked, was golden brown, but also has the meaning of gold full of houses.

5, soup dumplings, most of the southern people used to the Spring Festival in the morning have a family gathering to sit *** into the traditional custom of soup dumplings. It is said that the Lantern symbolizes the reunion of the family, eat Lantern means a new year of family happiness, all the best. The first day of the first month to eat the Lantern Festival, is the same custom throughout the country ***.

6, preserved meat, New Year's Eve to eat preserved meat is a traditional custom in Guangdong, "preserved meat" is a year before the food, such as preserved sausage, preserved meat, preserved pig's scalp, etc., the flavor of the aroma of the beautiful, mouth-watering. In the old agricultural society, about since the eighth day of the lunar month, housewives will be busy with the New Year's food. Because of the long time needed to curing preserved meat, so it must start as early as possible.

7, fried rice crackers, Guangdong has many kinds of cakes, the most famous when Yangjiang fried rice crackers, commonly known as powder cake or hard cake. It and Foshan blind male cake, Zhongshan almond cake, Xiqiao cake known as the four famous cakes in Guangdong. In Guangdong, there is a Spring Festival to do the custom of fried rice cakes.

8, the custom of Southern Guangdong, the Spring Festival to do fried rice crackers, and later turned into a snack all year round. The whole family, young and old, and happy to do the cake. Iron pan fried raw rice, stone mill grinding into rice flour, powder mixed with yellow sugar white sugar brown sugar, and then add peanuts and other ingredients, pressed into the wooden cake printed, demolded by charcoal baking.

9, pan-fried pile, for the old Canton, New Year's Day do pan-fried pile, means "pan-fried pile of bum, gold and silver full of house". As early as the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty Qu Dajun in the "Guangdong New Language" has been recorded: "Pan-fried heap of glutinous flour for the size of the round, into the oil fried, to sacrifice ancestors and gifts to friends and relatives also."

10, in the past, do fried pile is a grand thing, to the children are driven out of the production room, but also fried while saying auspicious words, in order to pray for the coming year good far.

11, eggs scattered, Guangzhou people also fried eggs scattered on New Year's Day, known as crispy. Legend has it that there is a New Year's Eve, when every family is ready to peanuts, sesame, sugar and other fillings wrapped in oil angle down the pot, there is a family is too poor to buy fillings, so the dough used to make the oil angle flattened under the frying pan. New Year's Day, the poor took out those dough to greet friends, everyone found it crispy and crunchy, melt in the mouth is very tasty, so they asked the name, the poor thought about it and said: "Because the ingredients have eggs, and melt in the mouth is characterized as if it is falling apart, it is called the egg scattered it."

12, turnip cake, turnip cake is a kind of Guangzhou people's favorite snacks, but also the New Year's seasonal food. A few days before the New Year, housewives will go to the market to buy back several pounds of white radish, as well as shrimp, sticky rice flour and other ingredients.

13, oil angle, Guangzhou people on New Year's Day to deep fry oil angle, take "wok" meaning, is to seek the coming year's days like the oil wok oil moist, rich and full. In the old days, Guangzhou people, rich and poor alike, would always open oil woks at the end of the year. The wok can be big or small, and it is a symbol of peace and prosperity for the family. Auspicious meaning symbolized by the oil horn: it is shaped like a "purse", i.e. a wallet.

14, smile mouth jujube, smile mouth jujube is a fried snack varieties of Guangzhou snacks, because it is fried after the upper end of the split and named. Smile mouth date sweet and crisp, very tasty. Guangzhou general eating morning tea place, all have smile mouth date. At the same time, the smile mouth date is also one of the Guangzhou people's Spring Festival must-have New Year's goods.

15, Poon Choi, eat Poon Choi is the coastal areas of Guangdong and Hong Kong and the New Territories and even Southeast Asia, the traditional customs of festivals. At Chinese New Year, families gather around to enjoy the sumptuous and steaming hot pots of vegetables while gossiping and having a good time.

16, rat shell kuey teow, rat curd kuey teow (guǒ), also known as the Tsz shell kuey teow, the traditional snacks in the Chaoshan region of Guangdong, the Chaoshan folk New Year's Day ancestor worship will generally have rat curd kuey teow. It is popular in Chaoan County, Xiangqiao District, Chenghai City and Raoping County.