What are the traditional foods during the Spring Festival?

What are the traditional foods during the Spring Festival?
The Spring Festival is not only a festival for gatherings, but also a festival for food. When the Spring Festival arrives, all kinds of delicious food are put on the table. So, what are the more common foods during the Spring Festival? The Spring Festival is an important traditional festival of ours. If you want to know more about the Spring Festival, please come and check out the 2019 Spring Festival special topic on Shuimoxiansheng.com!

Traditional food for Spring Festival

1. Dumplings Dumplings are the most representative traditional food in China. There is an old Chinese saying that “nothing tastes better than dumplings”. Chinese people must eat dumplings during the Chinese New Year. Dumplings are a type of food made by wrapping stuffing in dough and cooking it. Generally, people wrap dumplings before 12 o'clock on New Year's Eve, and cook them at midnight (11pm to 1am). This is the time when the old year is handed over to the new year. Eating dumplings is a homonym in Chinese, which means "geng sui jiao zi", which means bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new. Therefore, during the Spring Festival, no matter how rich the dishes are, Chinese people will never forget to eat dumplings. 2. Yuanxiao (Tangyuan) Yuanxiao is another great delicacy during the Spring Festival. According to tradition, it is a must-eat food during the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month. Nowadays, people do not emphasize the seasonality so much and classify it all as Spring Festival food. 3. Rice cake Rice cake is also a Spring Festival delicacy. In some places, rice cake is also called "nianniangao", which is taken from the Chinese homonym "nianniangao", which means "higher every year", indicating that people hope that life will get better every year. Rice cakes are usually made from glutinous rice flour and yellow rice flour, and are divided into yellow and white rice cakes. Rice cakes can be mixed with vegetables and meat and cooked into soup, or they can be steamed with osmanthus flowers or roses. It is said that rice cakes were originally used for worshiping ancestors and gods, and later gradually became a Spring Festival food. Its history is more than two thousand years. 4. Beijing: Old Beijingers are particularly particular about the food during the Chinese New Year. You can learn how rich the food is in Beijing during the Spring Festival from the folk song: "Children, don't be greedy, for after Laba is the New Year. Drink Laba porridge for a few days, the twenty-third, the twenty-third, sticky sugar melons, the twenty-fourth, sweep the house, the twenty-fifth, fry tofu, the twenty-sixth, stew mutton, the twenty-seventh, kill the rooster, the twenty-eighth, let the dough rise, the twenty-nine, steam buns, stay up all night on the 30th, and twist and turn on the first day of the New Year..." The Laba porridge, fried tofu, stewed mutton, etc. listed in the folk song are all old Beijing delicacies during the Spring Festival.

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