What traditional food to eat in Chinese New Year
The Spring Festival is the most important festival of the year, so When the Spring Festival comes, the whole family will get together for New Year’s Eve dinner, and the most classic traditional foods are dumplings, preserved meat and rice cakes.These are all eating habits all over the country, and dumplings are the most important.
Introduction to the Spring Festival
The Spring Festival generally refers to New Year’s Eve and the first day of the first lunar month.But in the folk, the Spring Festival in the traditional sense refers to the festival from the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month or the sacrificial stove on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month, until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, with New Year’s Eve and the first day of the first lunar month as the climax.During the Spring Festival, the Han nationality and many ethnic minorities in our country hold various activities to celebrate.These activities mainly focus on offering sacrifices to gods and Buddhas, paying homage to ancestors, removing the old and fabricating the new, welcoming the jubilee and receiving blessings, and praying for a prosperous year.The activities are rich and colorful, with strong national characteristics.
Customs of the Spring Festival
Celebration activities during the Spring Festival are extremely rich and varied, including lion dances, floating colors, dragon dances, wandering gods, temple fairs, flower shopping, lanterns, gongs and drums , vernier flags, burning fireworks, praying for blessings, springing, but also walking on stilts, running dry boats, twisting Yangko and so on.The custom of worshiping gods (ancestors) is prevalent in the southern coastal areas, inheriting the ancient customs.During the Spring Festival, there are grand and grand sacrificial activities such as sacrificing the heaven and earth, praying for blessings for the jubilee, etc.Full-bodied.During the Spring Festival, there are many places such as sticking New Year’s Day, keeping the year old, eating group dinner, and paying New Year’s greetings.
Dining for the Spring Festival
Eating preserved meat
In the ancient agricultural society, since about the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the housewives will be busy preparing for the New Year.food too.Because it takes a long time to marinate bacon, it must be prepared as soon as possible.Many provinces in my country have the custom of preserving bacon, among which Guangdong province is the most famous.
Eating rice cakes
Steamed rice cakes, because of the homophonic "Nian Gao" and the ever-changing tastes, rice cakes have almost become a must-have food for every family.The styles of rice cakes are square-shaped yellow and white rice cakes, which symbolize gold and silver, and represent the meaning of making a fortune in the New Year.
Eating dumplings
The night before the real New Year’s Eve is called Reunion Night.The wanderers who are away from home have to come home from thousands of miles away, and the whole family has to sit around and make dumplings.During the Chinese New Year, dumplings are made by first kneading noodles to make dumpling skins, and then wrapping them with stuffing.The content of the stuffing is varied, and all kinds of meat, eggs, seafood, and seasonal vegetables can be stuffed.The orthodox way to eat dumplings is clear water.Cooked, picked up and eaten with soy sauce seasoned with vinegar, minced garlic and sesame oil.
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