What to eat during the Spring Festival? What are the good meanings of Spring Festival food customs?

What to eat during the Spring Festival? What are the good meanings of Spring Festival food customs?
During the Spring Festival, a variety of delicious foods emerge in an endless stream. So, what would be more meaningful to eat during the Spring Festival? Let’s find out together with the editor. New Year, New Atmosphere. If you want to know more about the Lunar New Year, please pay attention to the 2019 Chinese New Year and Spring Festival special article exclusively presented to you by Shui Mo Xiansheng website! Let’s learn more about it with the editor.

What to eat during the Spring Festival?

1. From "returning to the mother's home" to "visiting relatives and friends", the New Year's gift food, such as sachima, pea yellow, kidney bean rolls and other Manchu traditional snacks, symbolizes "blessings and spring back", which is the most pleasing. 2. Gold and silver rolls and gold and silver steamed buns. The Han people often use the yellow color of food to represent gold and the white color to represent silver. Gold and silver steamed buns and gold and silver rolls symbolize good fortune and lots of gold and silver. 3. “Chicken” has the same pronunciation as “ji” (good luck), so it becomes a meat dish with auspicious connotations. 4. Eight Treasure Rice Pudding The Eight Treasure Rice Pudding served at the banquet in the first month of the lunar year has an auspicious name and happens to be a delicious dessert after the meal. 5. Pineapple is popular in the South because its pronunciation is similar to “wanglai” which means prosperity. Because of its sweet fragrance and golden color, it has become a common New Year's dish in the north. 6. Among the names of auspicious dishes, "eight treasures" is mostly used to refer to rich varieties. Later, it became a homonym for "eight" which means good luck and great development, and it often consists of exactly eight ingredients. 7. Vermicelli Vermicelli is a long and slender food, and its shape implies “longevity”, symbolizing continuous good luck and lasting fortune. 8. Steamed Cake: Steamed cake expands rapidly during the steaming process, and people use it to represent getting rich, development, prosperity, etc.

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