What to eat on the first day of the Lunar New Year in 2019? Can pregnant women visit relatives during the Spring Festival in 2019?

What to eat on New Year’s Day in 2019?

1. Dumplings Shandong is a typical northern province, and its Spring Festival customs are also quite representative. Some people say that from Shandong’s New Year customs, we can see how most northern provinces celebrate the New Year. Shandong people have the custom of eating dumplings on the first day of the Lunar New Year. This is definitely something that every household cannot miss during the Spring Festival. As far as different parts of Shandong are concerned, there is not much difference. People in Jinan eat dumplings on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and the same is true for the other 16 cities.
2. Five Blessings Porridge: On the first day of the Lunar New Year, if people do not eat the leftovers from New Year’s Eve, some places also eat Five Blessings Porridge, which contains taro, rice, red dates, tofu, and cowpea, meaning that the "five blessings" are coming. So why eat the leftovers from New Year’s Eve? Because it carries the auspicious meaning of "abundance year after year"!
3. Rice Cake: The first meal of the Spring Festival in Hunan is "Rice Cake", which means "every year is better than the last". Rice cakes come in two shapes: yellow and white, symbolizing gold and silver, and implying getting rich in the New Year. However, a small number of Miao people in Hunan eat sweet wine and rice dumplings as the first meal of the Spring Festival, which means "sweet life and good harvest".
4. Chicken soup: In some places in Hubei, chicken soup is consumed as the first meal of the Spring Festival, symbolizing "peace and tranquility". In addition, the main labor force in the family eats chicken feet, which means "grabbing wealth in the new year"; young students eat chicken wings, which means they can spread their wings and fly high; and the head of the family eats chicken bones, which means "getting ahead in life."
5. Eggs: In Jingzhou and Shashi areas, eggs are eaten as the first meal, which means "real and auspicious". If there are guests, they should eat two "poached eggs" that are cooked very tenderly and the yolk can be seen through the white, which means "silver wrapped in gold, gold wrapped in silver, and you get gold and silver."

Can pregnant women visit relatives during the Spring Festival in 2019?

Pregnant women should pay attention to their diet during the Chinese New Year