Take stock of traditional food and customs during the Spring Festival.

(1) jiaozi

As the saying goes, "jiaozi is not enough to eat". In the blood of northerners, "Jiaozi" is the rushing "artery". Jiaozi has many auspicious meanings. Jiaozi symbolizes reunion and celebration. At the same time, it also means resigning the old and welcoming the new; In addition, jiaozi is similar to the "gold ingot" made of gold and silver in ancient China. Eating jiaozi means "rolling in money". The warm family atmosphere is the most important reason why people still cherish jiaozi while eating jiaozi.

(2) oil angle

Oil angle cuisine is one of the home-cooked snacks in Guangzhou. Different places have different tastes and use different raw materials. Some are sweet and some are vegetables. The method is basically the same, but the stuffing used is different. The sweet one is wrapped with sugar and the salty one is replaced with vegetables. Oil angle is essential for the Chinese New Year in Guangdong. Before the Spring Festival, there were 10 and 20 days, and every household would fry oil angle in a wok. The purpose of frying oil angle in wok is to be as oily and rich as that wok in the coming year.

(3) Ciba

Ciba is also a delicious snack in the Spring Festival, especially in the Wuyishan generation in the south, where the whole family plays Ciba together and happily prepares for the Spring Festival. Ciba is mainly made of glutinous rice, which is soaked and steamed in a steamer, and then quickly put into a stone spoon to make it soft and elastic. Make the rice paste into a big or small ball while it is hot, stir-fry sesame seeds and grind them into powder, roll them on a plate mixed with sugar, and you can eat them. It tastes sweet. Whenever there is a happy event, the local people will make brown sugar mixed with rice cakes to entertain their guests as a sign of good luck.

2. Customs:

(1) Spring Festival dust removal

According to Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals, as early as the Yao and Shun era, China had the custom of sweeping dust during the Spring Festival. Because "dust" and "Chen" are homophonic, sweeping dust in the Spring Festival has a new meaning, meaning "getting rid of the old and not being new", hoping to sweep all bad luck out of the house.

(2) Sticking couplets, blessings and door gods

On the afternoon of the day before the Spring Festival, children will paste couplets on the door with paste and brushes, and then let the adults below see if they are pasted correctly. Some of them are pasted on the crosshead of the lintel with couplets on the left and right sides of the lintel. Others put blessings on doors, walls and lintels to express people's yearning for a happy life. Others will stick pictures of door gods on the door panels, praying for a safe year and adding festive atmosphere.

(3) Sacrificing ancestors and gods

Sacrificing to God during the Spring Festival is a custom all over China. The customs of offering sacrifices to gods are similar all over the country, but the purpose is basically the same. They all pray for good weather, good harvests and good luck in the coming year.

Sacrificing ancestors is generally after offering sacrifices to gods, and customs vary from place to place. In our hometown, every day before lunch, every household sends a representative to the ancestral temple with food and offerings, and the ancestral temple will not close until the fifteenth day of the first month.