Buying new year's goods during the Spring Festival is an indispensable top priority for ordinary Chinese people, including food, clothing, wearing, using, playing, offering, giving (New Year's greetings) gifts, dry, fresh, raw and cooked. It is collectively called "New Year's goods", and the process of purchasing new year's goods is called "doing new year's goods". So what are the traditional new year goods?
Traditional new year goods:
Spring Festival couplets: written in ink or gold paint on red paper, with the intention of avoiding evil and seeking auspiciousness
Lucky money: in the past, 120 ancient coins were crossed with red silk thread, which means eating [one hundred and two], and now new banknotes are packed in red bags
Sweet dumplings: sweet dumplings for the Chinese new year, hair dumplings for 1 yuan, vegetable bags for gold, vegetable head dumplings for dessert
Caitou: good caitou means family: family photo
Stove: the whole family gets together for new year's Eve dinner. The stove under the table indicates that the reunion is prosperous
Perennial vegetable (mustard): it means longevity
ChunZi rice: white rice (ChunZi flower) means spring every year (save every year) (i.e. the rest)
Dessert: used to entertain guests and say good words
The necessary new year goods in different regions are different. For example, in Guangdong, China, the common necessary new year goods are nuts (common pistachios and cashews), Lishi sugar (red packaged candy), cookies and so on.
Precautions for purchasing spring festival goods
1、 Pay attention to whether the operator has a business license and whether its subject qualification is legal;
2、 Pay attention to whether the food packaging labels are complete, whether the food outer packaging is marked with commodity name, ingredient list, net content, factory name, factory address, telephone, production date, shelf life, product standard number, etc;
3、 39 kinds of plastic packaging, containers, tools and other products of 28 categories of food such as rice, noodles, oil, soy sauce, vinegar, meat products, dairy products, beverages, condiments (sugar and monosodium glutamate), instant noodles, biscuits, cans, frozen drinks, quick-frozen rice noodles and puffed food must be marked with the 'QS' mark from January 1, 2008 before they can be sold or used on the market.
4、 Pay attention to the production date or expiration date of the food, and pay attention to whether the food exceeds the shelf life. Don't eat the spoiled New Year's products. Don't lose big things for small things.
5、 For the identification of bulk food, see whether the bulk food indicates the production and processing unit, production date, shelf life, etc.
6、 Look at the color of food. Don't be confused by food with too bright and beautiful appearance. The food put into the refrigerator must be fresh. Any situation such as fish smelling, meat smelling and egg yellowing is a sign of freshness and cannot be put into the refrigerator.
7、 Look at the hygiene status of bulk food operators, pay attention to whether there are health certificates, hygiene certificates and other relevant certificates, and whether there are fly and dust prevention facilities.
8、 Look at food prices, pay attention to the market price comparison of similar foods, and rationally buy 'discount', 'low price' and 'promotion' foods.
9、 When purchasing meat products and cured products, it is best to go to standard commercial (municipal) farms and supermarkets, and be careful to buy food sold by tourists (without fixed business places and cart sales).
10、 Properly keep the shopping vouchers and relevant basis, so as to provide rights protection basis in case of consumption disputes.