What does it mean to eat steamed bread in the North for the New Year?

The moral of Chinese New Year's buns in the north is to get rich and get higher and higher.

"Twenty-eight handfuls of dough, twenty-nine steamed buns ..." This folk song tells the traditional customs in the north. Steaming steamed bread in the New Year is an important event, which means making a fortune and living a prosperous life in the coming year. Steamed bread is made of dough and will rise when steamed, so it also symbolizes that you will make a fortune.

According to the old principle, steamed bread can't be steamed from the first day of the first month to the fifth day of the first month, and cooking with fire can't be used, so people are used to cooking staple food on the 28th and 29th of the twelfth month. Because cooking such as steaming, frying and branding is forbidden during the Spring Festival, steaming and arguing, frying and quarreling, branding and dropping are unlucky, so people are used to steaming enough steamed bread for the whole family to eat for about a week before the Spring Festival.

Types of steamed bread:

The steamed buns in the North for the New Year are colorful and rich in image. Because of the different styles of steamed bread, the meanings are naturally different: fish is auspicious, peach is longevity, apple is peaceful and wishful, catfish steamed bread means "more than every year", Yuanbao steamed bread means lucky money, and five big red dates are dotted on steamed bread to mean a bumper harvest in the coming year.

These steamed buns, made of hedgehogs and dragons, are said to be the sounds of "sacred insects", "leftovers" and "rising", which means that there will be surplus grain in the coming year and the days will rise step by step. There is still a little red on the steamed bread, which means that it is thriving, and it is a better wish and wish for life in the new year.