Food that represents the Spring Festival

Dumplings are the most representative traditional delicacies in China. There is an old saying in China that "nothing tastes better than dumplings." Chinese people must eat dumplings during the New Year.

Dumplings are foods made by wrapping the fillings in dough and cooking them.

Usually before 12 o'clock in the evening on New Year's Eve, people wrap the dumplings and cook them until midnight (11 pm to 1 am). This is the time when the New Year is handed over to the old. Eating dumplings is homophonic in Chinese for "change".

"Suijiaozi" means saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new.

Therefore, during the Spring Festival, no matter how rich the dishes are, Chinese people will never forget to eat a meal of dumplings.

Dumplings are an essential part of the New Year’s Eve dinner.

Especially in northern China, making and eating dumplings has become an important part of most families celebrating New Year's Eve.

As the saying goes: "When it's a big cold or a small cold, eat dumplings to celebrate the New Year." The Chinese New Year is the most solemn festival of the year for the Chinese.

In order to celebrate the New Year, everyone began to prepare as soon as the twelfth lunar month (the twelfth month of the lunar calendar) entered.

From the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, commonly known as the "Little New Year", the countdown to the New Year begins. People put up lanterns, post couplets, clean the courtyard, and prepare to welcome relatives far away and celebrate the New Year together.

On the night of New Year's Eve, the most important activity is to make dumplings with the whole family.

At this time, dumplings are not only a delicious food, but also full of Chinese people’s wishes for a better life.

The scene of the whole family gathering together to make dumplings is harmonious, warm and fun.

Northerners eat dumplings, while southerners eat rice cakes.

New Year cakes are available in yellow and white colors, symbolizing gold and silver. New Year cakes are also called "Nian Nian cake", which is homophonic with "Nian Nian Gao", which means that people's work and life are improving year by year.

Therefore, ancient people wrote poems about rice cake: rice cake means slightly cloudy, white like silver and yellow gold.

I look forward to good times and good fortune as I age, and I sincerely and silently wish for wealth to come.

There is also a traditional time-honored brand in old Beijing named after "rice cake money".

Rice dumplings are eaten during the Lantern Festival, and people get together.

Tangyuan is one of China's representative snacks with a long history.

It is said that glutinous rice balls originated in the Song Dynasty.

At that time, a novel food became popular in various places, which was filled with various fruit baits, and the outside was rolled into balls with glutinous rice flour. After being cooked, it tasted sweet, delicious and interesting.

Because this kind of glutinous rice ball floats and sinks when cooked in a pot, it was first called "Floating Yuanzi". Later, in some areas, "Floating Yuanzi" was renamed Yuanxiao.

Jiandui Jiandui is called Ma Tuan in North China, Ma Yuan in Northeast China, and Zhenbao in Hainan. It is a type of Chinese fried pasta. Since it is popular in Guangdong, it is also a type of Guangdong oil cooker.

It is made of fried glutinous rice flour dough and added with sesame seeds. Some are filled with mochi paste, bean paste and other fillings, while some are not.

It is also a common New Year food in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao. It has the meaning of "heaps of fried rice and a house full of gold and silver".

Spring rolls are an indispensable delicacy on the dining table during the Chinese New Year. Spring rolls, also known as spring pancakes and pancakes, are a popular traditional snack in Fuzhou. They have a long history and are a good omen for welcoming the Spring Festival.

Spring rolls evolved from ancient spring cakes.

According to the ancient book "Sui Sui Guang Ji" written by Chen Yuanliang: "In spring, spring pancakes and lettuce are eaten, called spring dishes." The Qing Dynasty's "Yanjing Sui Sui Ji" also has: "In spring, rich families eat more spring pancakes."

"It can be seen that the folk custom of making spring cakes and eating spring cakes in spring has a long history.