What is the significance of eating traditional food during the Spring Festival?

Traditional foods eaten during the Spring Festival include jiaozi, chicken, fish, rice cakes and Yuanxiao.

Their meanings are as follows:

I. jiaozi

Jiaozi is a traditional food during the Spring Festival. For northerners, how can Spring Festival food be without jiaozi? Jiaozi is not only delicious, but also has profound meaning. It has the auspicious meaning of "the way to make money", so eating jiaozi in the New Year means that the new year will be lucky. And the choice of dumpling stuffing is directly related to its meaning. For example, jiaozi with leek stuffing means wealth for a long time, jiaozi with cabbage stuffing means wealth for a hundred years, jiaozi with mushroom stuffing means encouraging wealth, and jiaozi with pickled cabbage stuffing means calculating wealth, so jiaozi is an essential food for the Spring Festival.

Second, chicken.

During the Spring Festival, chicken is an indispensable food. Chicken and auspicious are homophonic. Eating chicken means everything will be fine, and eating chicken is also very particular. Giving chicken wings to young people means doing a lot. Chicken legs are for elders, which means the pillar of the family. During the Chinese New Year, the food we eat is high in calories, so people in many areas will peel the chicken after cooking to reduce the intake of fat and ensure the delicious chicken.

Third, fish

This is a traditional proverb in China. It is more than enough to eat fish every year, so fish is very important on this auspicious day of the Spring Festival. Many families will eat one on New Year's Eve and one on New Year's Day, hoping for a good omen for more than a year, which means more than a year. However, we still have a saying that we eat fish tails on New Year's Eve and fish heads on New Year's Day. This is also more than a year, with a beginning and an end.

Fourth, rice cakes.

In fact, the most important thing to eat in the Spring Festival is some auspicious meanings, such as rice cakes. Almost all parts of the country use sticky rice noodles and yellow rice noodles to make sticky cakes (also called rice cakes), which means that most of the food eaten during the Spring Festival is prepared before the festival, and most northerners eat steamed bread. In the south, rice was washed a few days ago, which is called wannian grain rice, which means there is surplus grain every year. Rice cakes are also a must-have food for Chinese New Year. There are many kinds of cereals for making rice cakes, and the practices vary from place to place. Among them, the water mill sticky cake in Jiangnan is the most famous. In the north, people eat white cakes or sticky cakes made of yellow rice, while ethnic minorities in the southwest are used to eating glutinous rice Baba.

V. Lantern Festival

On the fifteenth day of the first month, Yuanxiao is eaten in the north and Tangyuan is eaten in the south. Yuanxiao was very popular in the Song Dynasty. It was originally called "Floating Zi Yuan", later called "Yuanxiao", and merchants also called it "Yuanbao". Usually, raw materials such as white sugar, roses, sesame seeds, red bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnut kernels, nuts and jujube paste are used as stuffing, and glutinous rice flour is wrapped in a circle. Meat can be vegetarian and have different flavors. It can be boiled, fried and steamed, which means reunion and happy life.