What are the dietary customs during the Spring Festival?

The Spring Festival is an ancient traditional festival in China and the most important festival in the whole year. How to celebrate this festival has formed a number of fixed customs and habits during the thousands of years of historical development. Many have been passed down till now! There are many ancient customs.

(a) Spring Festival The first day of the first lunar month of the Lunar New Year. During the Spring Festival, all households throughout the country must conduct activities for the New Year. Diet is an important part of it. Around ten days before the holiday, people began to busy purchasing New Year's goods, including chickens, ducks, fish, tea and sauce, North-South roasted seeds and nuts, and sugar beets. In the South of the Yangtze River, the New Year's rice must be prepared in advance before the holiday season. It should be placed in a bamboo basket with red orange, Wuling, wolfberry and other fruits and ingot cakes, and pine twigs should be inserted. The New Year's dinner for the Northerners is done with gold, silver, rice (yellow and white rice). On the rice, dates, chestnuts, longan, and incense sticks are used to embellish the pine branch. Chinese people eat dumplings during the Chinese New Year. Some of the dumplings are filled with sugar, and their intention is to eat the new year's day sweet; some full of peanuts (called long fruit), the intention is to eat people can live long; there is a dumplings full of a money, the intention is Whoever eats it will "make money and prosper." The dumplings resemble ingots, and the inside of the New Year is cooked with dumplings, called “Golden Silk Wears Ingots”. The New Year's diet must take auspicious terms. Jiangnan New Year's tea visitors to the new year, put two olives in the tray or bowl cover, called "no treasure tea." In the New Year's Eve, there must be stir-fried greens and eaten as a “family!”; you must eat bean sprouts, because the bean sprouts look like “wishful”; you must eat fish heads for each meal, but you cannot eat them. ". New Year's will eat rice cakes, north and south with the wind. Eat rice cakes to wish life "high in years." Suzhou's sweet-scented osmanthus cakes, Ningbo's Shuimo rice cakes, Beijing's red date cakes, and 100-fruit cakes are all new year cakes.

(b) On the New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve is the evening of the December 30 (Lunar New Year). This means that on this night, "The moon is running out of poverty," people will have to get old. On the New Year's Eve of old customs, in the respect of heaven and earth ancestors, the whole family reunited to eat "the New Year's Eve", which is called "family love" and "group dinner." Jiangnan people to eat a new year's dinner, four cold dishes on the table, four hot fried, a pan, is a typical. There must be a bowl of stir-fried greens or leeks on the dining table, green and green, called "Chang Chong cuisine"; some are also prepared with Luo Su (eggplant) dishes. Falling vegetables are cooked with dried eggplant and other fruits and vegetables. The first thing you should taste when you eat for dinner is the dish. Due to Wu Yin's "falling" and "music" spectrum. New Year's Eve food customs, the North to eat dumplings. When you are old. When the child eats at the time of his child's age, he is called "Zengnianjiaozi (dumplings)". Northerners have dumplings on New Year's Eve, and they pay attention to the thin skin, the filling, and the pinching. When the package is not allowed to pinch, the pot must not be boiled. If you accidentally break the dumplings, you can only say "earn" and avoid saying "bad" and "broken." On the eve of the New Year's Eve, all farmers in rural areas in Jiangsu “painted rice bran” and used lime powder inside the leaking hole pouch to print dense limestone (Yuanbao shape or Yabola shape) around the grain and around the outdoors. This shows that the property is first protected by food. On New Year's Eve, “for two consecutive nights”, after dinner, the family sat around the table and peeled oranges and eat peanuts. It was called “keeping the year.” In the end, the children resigned from their elders, and the elders sent “lucky money” to children. In some places as seniors, the elders put oranges, litchi, and other fruits on the bedside pillows on the night of New Year's Eve. They called the “sweet fruit” so that when the children wake up early in the morning, they will enjoy the joy of the new year.

(3) Chinese New Year and Diet “Ya-Ya Shitian” said: “Year of the year, the name of familiarity, every year is cooked up, it is named after the old,” and “year” is taken as a symbol of harvest. Another said that the word "year" is a pictograph in the ancient language.