Traditional Chinese New Year Cuisine

Dumplings are essential food for the New Year's Eve dinner table in the north, and dumplings and cross the harmony of the meaning of "more years to cross the child". In addition, the shape of the dumpling is like a Yuanbao, Chinese New Year eating dumplings means "attracting wealth into the treasure", people will also be coins wrapped in dumplings, eat the dumplings will have good luck in the new year.

2, dumplings boiled noodles

Many places in Henan will eat dumplings boiled noodles on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, known as the "gold thread through the treasure". On New Year's Eve, the dumplings are boiled and eaten with a fish, which is called "fishing Yuanbao".

3, rice cake

Early Suzhou people to commemorate Wu Zixu, New Year's Eve to make rice cakes, and later gradually prevalent in all parts of the country, such as Shandong's red jujube rice cake, Beijing's fruit rice cake, Fujian taro rice cake and red/white sugar rice cake, Ningbo's water milled rice cake, Suzhou's osmanthus sugar rice cake, and so on. Rice cake, which harmonizes with the word "nian gao", is an essential food for the Spring Festival, and it sends people's expectation of "nian gao".

4, noodles

Some areas in Fujian will eat noodles (mostly noodles) on the first morning of the year to symbolize "long life".

5, fish

Chinese New Year's Day diet pay attention to the good moral, of course, without fish, usually the last dish on the table, some places this dish basically left without eating, meaning that "years of surplus". And some places on the selection of the New Year's Eve dinner in the fish is also concerned, silver carp for the year, crucian carp and carp for good luck, salmon for the rich and valuable.

6, wontons

In Jingjiang, Jiangsu Province, whether it is entertaining guests or New Year's Eve or a happy event, you must eat wontons. On the morning of New Year's Eve, every family begins to chop vegetables and pack wontons, and from the 30th day of the New Year until the 15th day of the first month of the year, "wontons on wine, the more you eat, the more you have", sent the people of Jingjiang on the new year's best wishes.

7, dumplings

Sichuan region on the first day of the New Year's breakfast to eat dumplings, dumplings on this day is called "Yuanbao", eat dumplings called "get Yuanbao", to take its reunion, complete, sweet meaning. Yangzhou people on the first day of the New Year to eat four happy dumplings, meaning everything is going well, family reunion; Shanghai people on the first day of the New Year breakfast is also eaten dumplings, meaning round, full, rich and powerful.

8, chicken

"No chicken is not a feast" is the mantra of the Cantonese, Guangdong, Hong Kong and around the New Year must be eaten chicken, chicken and Ji pronounced similar to the representative of the life of the good luck. Hubei people are to drink chicken soup on New Year's Day, symbolizing the peace of Qingtai. Chicken wings symbolize the spreading of wings and flying, chicken claws mean "New Year's Day catching money", and eating chicken bones means "getting ahead".

9, patty cake

The Tujia people in western Hunan province have always had the saying "28, hit the poop". On the twentieth day of the Lunar New Year, the Tujia people make sticky rice patties, and the Hakka people also have the habit of eating patties at festivals.

10, rice dumplings

Guangxi Zhuang people eat rice dumplings on New Year's Day, a few days before the Spring Festival every year, the Zhuang family to pack rice dumplings or buy rice dumplings, the first day of the year, the second day of the year, there are guests must eat rice dumplings.