What is the meaning of what food to eat on New Year’s Day?
New Year’s Day is the first day of the new year in the Gregorian calendar, that is, January 1 in the Gregorian calendar every year.When this day comes, folks have the eating habit of eating dumplings and rice cakes, which means that they hope that the new year will be prosperous, prosperous, wealthy, safe and healthy.
New Year’s Eating Habits
Dumplings
After eating, go out to pay New Year’s greetings, from near to far, from Yuan noon until after the lamp is burned."Accordingly, Tanglaowan is similar to dumplings, and they are boiled and steamed.The word "corn" appeared in the food of the Song Dynasty.In the Yuan Dynasty, the dumplings were called "bianshi", which may be from Mongolian.The dumplings in the Ming Dynasty, as "Zhengzitong" said, said Dumpling bait, noodles, dumplings, steamed dumplings.In addition, there are other names such as water snacks.The people of Beijing banners in the Qing Dynasty also called dumplings "cooked pastry".Eating dumplings on New Year’s Day flourished in the north during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.For example, Shen Bang’s "Wanshu Miscellaneous Notes" in Wanli Period of Ming Dynasty said that the New Year’s Day in Wanping County on the outskirts of Beijing "made flat food, and honored the elders as longevity".In the Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty, Shanxi "Quwo County Chronicle" recorded:"The two-day flat food bag is made.Gold, invite son-in-law to fight for happiness."The term flat food in the Yuan Dynasty has been handed down among the people.
Nian Gao
Nian Gao, also known as sticky sticky cake, means a new year.Sticky millet.Rice cakes have a long history.The rice cakes in the Han Dynasty already have names such as "rice cake", "cake", "bait", "glutinous rice cake", etc.The 6th century cookbook "Shishi" has the rice cake "white cocoon sugar".Production method, the Northern Dynasty "Qi Min Yao Shu" recorded the method of grinding rice into flour to make cakes.Eating rice cakes on New Year’s Day was popular in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, especially in the south.Volume 2 of the "Dijing Jingwu" in the late Ming Dynasty records that on New Year’s Day, the first month of the first month, "Suxing washes up, eat jujube cake, Japanese New Year cake"."Weixian Chronicle" in Jiajing, Hebei Province in the north said that "steamed sheep cake" was eaten locally.
Folk activities on New Year’s Day
The customs of New Year’s Day include:offering sacrifices to gods and Buddhas, offering sacrifices to ancestors, setting off firecrackers, and eating reunion dinners.Many places will also hold entertainment and celebration activities.Everyone gathers together and feels the joyous atmosphere brought by the festival.Although China is the 12th country in the world to celebrate New Year’s Day on January 1, in fact, there was a New Year’s Day in ancient China, but the way people celebrate New Year’s Day is similar to the Spring Festival, but it is not as lively as the Spring Festival, so it is easy to It is ignored by people.
The place where the traditional Chinese way of celebrating is preserved is in the countryside.Every New Year’s Day, every family will set off firecrackers, kill chickens and geese, and worship various gods.Dumplings are a must-have food for a reunion dinner together.Now the more common way to celebrate New Year’s Day is to organize activities by groups, such as New Year’s Day parties, hanging slogans celebrating New Year’s Day, holding group activities, etc.There are organized gongs and drums, collective dance of folk dances, and in recent years there have been programs such as travel and gatherings.
New Year’s Day’s festive significance
Every January 1st is New Year’s Day.The beginning of the new year."New Year’s Day" is a compound word.According to a single character, the word "Dan" is represented by a round sun.The word "一" under "Sun" represents the horizon, meaning that the sun rises slowly from the horizon.Rising.It symbolizes new life and is a kind of sustenance for the rising hope.Children will eat candied haws in the New Year, which symbolizes the prosperity of the new year.Cultural aspects:twisting Yangko, walking on stilts, and two people in the northeast will be in temple fairs.There are performances one after another.Tianjin cuts window grilles, pastes couplets, and the cultural and entertainment activities are overwhelmed.On New Year’s Day, students in Shandong pay incense to the statue of Confucius, in anticipation of the title of the gold medal list in the coming year.
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