The customs of the Spring Festival, food customs, and what are the customs of the Spring Festival

There are more customs like the Spring Festival, preparing various New Year goods to set off firecrackers, making dumplings on Chinese New Year's Eve, watching galas, and going to pay New Year's greetings on the first day of the new year.

1. Eat rice cakes.

Eat rice cakes during the Spring Festival,"Righteousness wins the year, so as to pray for the year. It means that everything goes well every year.

Rice cakes can be said to be one of my favorite foods growing in the south, the small green vegetables that have been frosted in winter are particularly glutinous, and have some sweetness of the green vegetables themselves, and the limitation of small green vegetables indicates the bitterness and old that the green vegetables that he has not grown up may bring. Stir-fried rice cake with green vegetables or rice cake with green vegetable soup, delicious food often does not need exquisite ingredients, ordinary but with the taste of home and the blessing of relatives, eat rice cakes, and the coming year is high

2. Eat dumplings.

At the same time, when I was studying in college in the north, I learned that there is a tradition of eating dumplings at the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in the north. However, the customs of eating dumplings vary from place to place, some places eat dumplings on Chinese New Year's Eve, some places eat dumplings on the first day of the new year, and some mountainous areas eat dumplings every morning from the first to the fifth day of the new year. Eating dumplings is a unique way to express people's wishes for good fortune as they say goodbye to the old and welcome the new.

According to China's ancient time system, 11 o'clock in the evening to 1 o'clock in the morning of the second jacket is the sub-hour. "Jiaozi" is the moment when the New Year intersects with the 22nd year. Dumplings mean more age, and eating dumplings during the Spring Festival is considered to be auspicious.

In addition, dumplings are shaped like ingots, and making dumplings means that they are wrapped in good luck and eating dumplings symbolizing a rich life.

3. Lantern Festival. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the north eats Lantern Festival, and the south eats glutinous rice balls. The Lantern Festival was very popular in the Song Dynasty, and it was first called "Fu Yuanzi", and later called"Lantern Festival", the businessman is still in the old name"ingots".

It is usually filled with raw materials such as sugar, roses, sesame seeds, bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnut kernels, nuts, and jujube paste, and wrapped into a circle with glutinous rice flour. It can be meat or vegetarian, and the flavor is different. It can be boiled, fried, and steamed, and has the meaning of reunion and life.

This is not, on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, I ate a bowl of rice balls, the round rice balls have a white and glutinous dough, with the most common sesame filling, and then on the soup of the sesame soup, delicately sprinkle some white sesame seeds, ah Actually, it is usually not sprinkled, but for the sense of ceremony! It's delicious! And it's a celebration of reunion

The food customs of the Spring Festival are generally based on eating rice cakes, dumplings, glutinous rice balls, glutinous rice balls, lucky oranges, apples, peanuts, melon seeds, candies, fragrant tea and delicacies; And accompanied by dusting, preparing New Year's goods, pasting Spring Festival couplets, pasting New Year's paintings, pasting paper-cutting, pasting blessing characters, lighting candles, lighting fires, setting off firecrackers, keeping the New Year, giving New Year's money, New Year's greetings, visiting relatives and many other activities, extremely happy family.

The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is particularly particular: first, the whole family must gather; The second is that the food is abundant, attaches importance to "lip color", and calls the rice cake "backgammon", the dumpling "Wan Wanshun", the wine "Changliushui", the egg "big ingot", and the goldfish "more than every year"; The third is that the seats are orderly, and most of them are ancestors.

Eat New Year's dinner, Jiangnan customs, before the New Year's Festival, to make New Year's rice in advance, put it in the bamboo basket, put red orange, Wuling, water chestnut and other fruits and ingots cake on it, insert pine and cypress branches, called "New Year's rice".

In the southern region, rice cakes, braised fish, fried rice noodles, and eight-treasure rice must be eaten, and their meanings are rising every year, having fish every year, harvesting grain, stringing rice, eight treasures into wealth, and becoming rich every year; Dumplings are eaten in the Spring Festival in the northern region, which means unity, auspiciousness and farewell to the old and welcome the new.

In order to increase the atmosphere and fun of the festival, people have put a lot of effort into the dumpling filling in the past generations, and people wrap money in the dumplings, and whoever eats it will make a fortune in the next year.