What's delicious in the Spring Festival?

Spring Festival foods include bacon, jiaozi, glutinous rice balls, rice cakes and spring cakes.

1, bacon

Bacon, sausage and preserved fish are essential Spring Festival delicacies for every household in some southern areas. Spicy Sichuan sausage, slightly sweet Cantonese sausage, red Xiangxi bacon and Jinhua ham are all popular traditional folk foods.

2. jiaozi

Jiaozi is a must-eat food for northerners in the New Year. Because it looks like an ingot, it is endowed with the meaning of "the way to make money". People also wrap coins, sweets, red dates and peanuts with auspicious meanings in fillings. Eating coins symbolizes getting rich in the new year, eating candy means that life will be sweeter in the coming year, and eating peanuts means health and longevity.

3. Tangyuan

The standard for Chinese New Year in South China is glutinous rice balls. In Shanghai, Jiangsu and other places, dumplings are eaten for breakfast on the first day of the first month, which means a happy reunion.

4. Rice cake

Soft and tough rice cakes are also essential food for the Spring Festival in the south. Eating rice cakes in the Spring Festival is not only delicious, but also good in color and "high", which means that the days are rising year by year.

5. Spring pancake

Spring cakes, also called spring rolls, are pancakes baked with flour. Eating spring cakes pays attention to eating them with vegetables. From beginning to end, it means "having a head and a tail", which means good luck.