Traditional food of the Spring Festival

In China, what traditional food for the Spring Festival？

The Spring Festival is an ancient and solemn traditional festival for Chinese people worldwide. When I was a kid, the most hopeful day was Chinese New Year. In addition to new clothes, I also had rich food. Although with the improvement of people's living standards and material conditions, big fish and meat are no longer the protagonists of the New Year, but those traditional Chinese New Year foods are still indispensable food on the New Year's dinner table. Today, let's talk about what to eat during the Spring Festival and what are the traditional foods for the Spring Festival in various places.

1, waxy

Bacon, sausages, and bacon are the must-have Chinese New Year dishes for families in some areas in the south. Spicy Sichuan-style sausages, slightly sweet Cantonese sausages, red-colored Xiangxi bacon, and Jinhua ham are all popular folk traditional foods.

2.Dumplings

Standard for the New Year in the South is dumplings. In Shanghai, Jiangsu and other places, the first day of the first month of the month of breakfast is to eat dumplings, which means a happy reunion.

3. Glue pudding

Glue pudding are a food that northerners must eat in the New Year. Because of its shape like ingots, people have been given the meaning of "fortune into treasure", and people also wrapped auspicious coins, candy, red dates, peanuts, etc. in the filling. Eating coins is a symbol of getting rich in the new year, and eating sweets means that life is sweeter in the coming year, and eating peanuts means health and longevity.

4.Mochi

Soft and glutinous rice cakes are also an essential food for the Spring Festival in the south. In addition to delicious rice cakes, eating rice cakes in the Spring Festival also lies in its good color. The cakes are "high", which means that our days are rising year by year.

5.Spring cake

Spring cakes, also known as spring rolls, are pancakes made from flour. Eating spring cakes is about eating together with vegetables, from beginning to end, meaning "head and tail", which means auspicious meaning

In addition, there are radish cakes, long noodles, ravioli,  Zongzi，Steamed bread, germinated beans and soybean sprouts, as shown in the picture, etc. There are many more. Many traditional Chinese New Year snacks are usually not remembered by people. Only the Chinese New Year will appear on the dining table. On this family reunion day, what is your favorite food? Foreign friends are welcome to come to China to taste！