What's delicious in the Spring Festival?

Spring Festival is the most important traditional festival in China. When I was a child, the most anticipated day was Chinese New Year. Besides lucky money and new clothes, there are all kinds of mouth-watering foods. Although people's living standards have improved now, big fish and big meat are no longer only available on holidays, but those traditional foods with full flavor of the year are still indispensable protagonists on the table. If you don't eat these delicious foods during the Spring Festival, you always feel that something is missing. So, what are the traditional foods that must be eaten during the Spring Festival?

14 kinds of delicious food to eat in the New Year, which one is necessary in your hometown for the New Year?

1, creature

On the dining table in the north, jiaozi is a feast food that no food can replace. Jiaozi, also known as Joule and jiaozi, means the alternation of the old and the new. Eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve means "making friends when you are young". Besides, jiaozi looks like an ingot. Eating jiaozi during the Spring Festival also means "getting rich".

Steamed dumplings (meat stuffing and vegetable stuffing)

2.wonton

Wonton is homophonic for "chaos" and "muddy hoarding". Eating wonton in the New Year takes its original meaning, which also means food Man Cang. Another reason is that wonton is shaped like an ingot, and it is also beautifully wrapped in Chinese New Year. You must pinch the two corners of the wonton skin and wrap it inside, which means "making money"

wonton

3. Rice cake

Eating rice cakes during the Spring Festival is a custom in many places, such as red/white rice cakes in Fujian, Shuimo rice cakes in Ningbo, sweet-scented osmanthus rice cakes in Suzhou, ginkgo rice cakes in Beijing and glutinous rice cakes in the north. Because rice cakes are also called "rice cakes", which is homophonic with "getting higher every year", eating rice cakes means that people's work and life are getting higher every year.

New Year cake; rice cake

4. Babao rice

Eight-treasure rice is exquisite in use, complicated in technology, full in weight and high in sweetness, suitable for the whole family to share and enjoy, symbolizing reunion. According to folklore experts, lotus seeds in babao rice symbolize marriage harmony, longan symbolizes reunion, kumquat symbolizes auspiciousness, red dates symbolize early birth, honey wax gourd and honey cherry symbolize life is sweet, coix seed symbolizes longevity, and melon seeds symbolize safety and disaster-free. From this perspective, the eight-treasure rice is like a cornucopia, which means that the new year will be rich.

5. Fish

Fish is indispensable on the dinner table during the Spring Festival, because fish, like "surplus", stands for "surplus" and means "surplus every year". There are many things to pay attention to when eating fish in the New Year. Fish should be the last dish of the New Year's Eve dinner, which symbolizes a "surplus" every year. In other places, fish heads and tails are kept until the first day of the New Year, which means that there is a "surplus" from beginning to end of the year.

Chopped pepper fish

6.chicken

Chicken is homophonic with "Ji". In Guangdong, there is a saying that "you can't do without chicken". Chicken is an essential food for Cantonese people in the New Year. People eat chicken to pray for good luck and look forward to the coming year.

7. Tangyuan

In southern China, there is a custom of eating glutinous rice balls during the Spring Festival. The "round" of glutinous rice balls means "reunion" and "perfection", which symbolizes family harmony and sweet life.

tangyuan

8.lamb cake

"Ciba for the New Year" is particularly popular in western Hunan. Ciba is made of glutinous rice, which is very sticky. Eating Ciba in the New Year can be used to "stick" the family together, which means reunion in the New Year.

Cooked glutinous rice is mashed into paste.

9. Spring rolls

Spring rolls are popular all over the country, especially in Jiangnan generation. Spring rolls are fried with leeks, bean sprouts, shredded pork, celery, shredded tofu, shredded chicken, mushrooms and other ingredients, then wrapped in pancakes and eaten from beginning to end, which means "head to tail". In some places, they eat fried spring rolls, which look like gold bars and have the auspicious meaning of "twelve thousand gold".

spring roll

10, noodles

Some areas in Fujian have the custom of eating noodles during the New Year. Noodles, commonly known as longevity, are eaten during the New Year and also mean "long-term".

1 1, bacon

In the past, bacon was a particularly popular flavor food in autumn and winter. After Laba Festival, basically every household began to cook sausages, bacon, preserved fish and so on. And it has become a good appetizer after the Chinese New Year.

sausage

12, sticky bean bag

Sticky bean bag, also known as "Nian Dou Bao", is a kind of rice cake made by northeast people during the Spring Festival. Sticky bean buns are made of yellow rice and red bean stuffing. Steamed tofu, like steamed bread, means "making a fortune" and "making a fortune", while steamed tofu symbolizes "thriving".

13, Zongzi

Eating zongzi during the Spring Festival is a custom in some rural areas such as Guangxi and Zhejiang, which means "being wrapped". Especially for families with children, the metropolis will pack some wishes for their children to "high school" in the future.

14, soybean sprouts

Soybean sprouts, Suzhou people also gave it a good name, called "Ruyi cuisine". People in Shanghai and Suzhou must eat "ruyi dishes" at the New Year's Eve, wishing the New Year "contentment". In addition, soybean sprouts are sprouted vegetables, symbolizing rise and growth, which is very auspicious.