What are the seasonal foods for the Spring Festival?

Seasonal foods for the Spring Festival include rice cakes, jiaozi, Yuanxiao, spring cakes, fish and so on.

First, rice cakes

Rice cakes are seasonal food for the Lunar New Year. They are red, yellow and white, symbolizing gold and silver. A kind of cake steamed with sticky glutinous rice or rice flour, which is sweet and sticky in the south, symbolizing a sweet and better life in the new year.

Eating rice cakes during the Spring Festival, "it is better to take the year to pray for it." It means that every year goes well. The types of rice cakes are: white rice cakes and yellow rice cakes in the north; There are water mill rice cakes in Jiangnan; There is glutinous rice in the southwest; There are red turtle cakes in Taiwan Province province. There are two kinds of rice cakes in the north: steamed and fried. In addition to steaming and frying, there are other methods in the south, such as frying in slices and cooking in soup.

Second, jiaozi.

Jiaozi, formerly known as "jiaozi", has a tradition of eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve in the north, but the customs of eating jiaozi vary from place to place. Some places eat jiaozi on New Year's Eve, and some places eat jiaozi on New Year's Day. Northerners who don't eat jiaozi for 30 nights will feel that there is no atmosphere for the New Year. Some mountainous areas in the north also have the custom of eating jiaozi every morning from the first day to the fifth day.

Eating jiaozi is a unique way for people to express their wish for good luck when they bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year. From 1 1 in the evening to 1 the next morning, "intersection" is the moment when the new year and the old year intersect. Jiaozi means getting married at an older age, and eating jiaozi during the Spring Festival is considered a great luck.

Third, Lantern Festival.

The food that celebrates the Lantern Festival in the south is called "Tangyuan", also called "Yuanxiao", "Tangtuan" and "Floating Zi Yuan". It is one of the representatives of traditional snacks in China, and it is a spherical food made of glutinous rice flour. There are usually fillings, which are cooked and eaten with soup. At the same time, it is also the most distinctive food of the Lantern Festival. Make stuffing with black sesame and lard, add a little sugar, and knead it with glutinous rice flour outside.

Because this glutinous rice dumpling floats and is heavy when cooked in a pot, it was originally called "floating Zi Yuan" and was later renamed as jiaozi in some areas. In Jiangsu, Shanghai and other places, people are used to eating glutinous rice balls on the morning of New Year's Day.

Fourth, spring cakes.

Spring rolls are also called spring cakes. Eating spring cakes at the beginning of spring is an ancient custom in China. In the Jin Dynasty, there was a "five taro plates", that is, "spring plates", which put spring cakes and vegetables in the same plate.

During the Tang and Song Dynasties, eating spring cakes became more and more popular, and the emperor gave them to officials. At that time, spring cakes were very particular: "Green HongLing, golden rooster and jade swallow, extremely exquisite production, each dish costs 10 thousand yuan." People also use it to give gifts to each other.

Nowadays, spring cakes come in different shapes and at different times. There are baked and steamed; As big as a round fan or as small as a lotus root.

Verb (abbreviation for verb) fish

The food in the Spring Festival pays attention to good meanings, and of course fish is indispensable. Fish is usually the last dish on the table. In some places, this dish is basically neglected, meaning "more than one year".

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