Spring Festival knowledge points

There are many customs of eating during the Spring Festival. Now let me introduce the eating customs of the Spring Festival.

In ancient agricultural society, housewives were busy preparing food for the Spring Festival from the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. Because bacon takes a long time, it must be done as soon as possible. Many provinces in China have the custom of curing meat, among which Guangdong is the most famous.

Because of its homophonic "rice cake", the taste of rice cake is changeable, and it has almost become a must-have item for every household. The styles of rice cakes are yellow and white square rice cakes, which symbolize gold and silver and express the meaning of getting rich in the New Year.

The taste of rice cakes varies from place to place. Beijingers like to eat red jujube rice cakes, ginkgo rice cakes and white rice rice rice cakes made of glutinous rice. Hebei people like to add red dates, small red beans and mung beans to rice cakes. In northern Shanxi and Inner Mongolia, people have the custom of eating fried rice cakes with yellow rice in the New Year. Some jiaozi will also pack stuffing such as bean paste and jujube paste. Shandong people steam rice cakes with yellow rice and red dates. In the north, rice cakes are mainly sweet, steamed or fried, and some people simply eat sugar. The rice cakes in the south are sweet and salty. For example, the rice cakes in Suzhou and Ningbo are all made of japonica rice and have a light taste. Besides steaming and frying, you can also slice, fry and cook. Sweet rice cake is made of glutinous rice flour, sugar, lard, rose, osmanthus fragrans, mint, vegetable paste and other ingredients. It is fine in workmanship. It can be steamed directly or fried with egg white.

In China, the night before the New Year is called Reunion Night. All homeless people who have left their homes have to travel long distances to go home. The family will sit down and wrap jiaozi for the New Year. The way to wrap jiaozi is to wrap jiaozi's bag with noodles first, and then put the stuffing on the bag. The contents of fillings are varied. All kinds of meat, eggs, seafood and seasonal vegetables can be packed. The traditional way of eating in jiaozi is to cook in water and dip it in soy sauce, vinegar, minced garlic and sesame oil. There are fried jiaozi, baked jiaozi (fried dumpling) and other ways to eat.

Because the word "he" means "he"; Jiaozi's "Jiao Zi" is synonymous with "Jiao", and "He" and "Jiao" both have the meaning of reunion, so jiaozi is used to symbolize reunion and joy. Having a son at a young age represents good luck; In addition, because jiaozi looks like an ingot, eating jiaozi in the New Year also has a "lucky" auspicious meaning. The whole family got together to pack jiaozi. It's interesting to talk about the Spring Festival.