What traditional southern food do you eat during the Spring Festival?

1, rice cakes: It is also the custom of Shaoxing people to eat rice cakes and wish a "high life year after year". There are many ways to eat rice cakes, such as sugar, soup, fried and so on. But the homonym is "getting higher every year", which means getting better every year.

2. Tangyuan: There are many kinds of tangyuan. You can make it yourself at home or buy quick-frozen food in the supermarket. In the supermarket, there are various kinds of dumplings, big and small, sweet and salty, but in the Spring Festival, most of them are sweetened in the middle. It is also a good choice to pack jiaozi at home. There are many ways to package jiaozi, and they are relatively simple. You can buy glutinous rice flour, sesame stuffing and sugar to cook at home. Jiaozi, the breakfast on New Year's Day, must have a more special meaning. It means: everything goes well and the whole family is happy.

3. Zongzi: Shaoxing people are used to making zongzi during the Spring Festival. People in Shaoxing generally use bamboo leaves (also called zongzi leaves), which also have a fragrant taste after cooking. The zongzi wrapped in zongzi leaves has a strong fragrance and tastes very pleasant. There are many delicious fresh meat, egg yolk and chestnut zongzi besides zongzi wrapped in pure glutinous rice and zongzi with cowpea or red bean added to glutinous rice. Eating zongzi on New Year's Day means that life is sweet and crops are plentiful.

4. jiaozi: It is the custom of northerners to eat jiaozi on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, but now many Shaoxing people have joined the ranks of eating jiaozi. Eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve means "good luck in the coming year", while eating jiaozi on New Year's Day means good luck in the coming year.

5, sugar tea: in Shaoxing urban and rural areas, visiting relatives and friends during the Spring Festival, the host will always give you a cup of sugar tea when you enter the door, and don't forget to put two candied dates in the sugar tea, which means sweetness.