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What do southerners eat during the Spring Festival? Introduction to traditional food that must be ea

In China, different festivals have different traditional food, but because of different regions, the traditional food that the same festival must eat in different regions is different. The Spring Festival is coming soon. In such a grand festival as the Spring Festival, there are many delicious food. What do southerners eat during the Spring Festival? Let's take a look at the food that must be eaten during the Spring Festival in the south.

Southern spring festival must eat food

Eating rice cakes:

Some places in the South pay attention to eating New Year cakes during the Spring Festival, which are high year by year (cakes), symbolizing that the harvest is higher and higher year by year.

Chinese people celebrate the Spring Festival, or lunar new year. Northerners eat dumplings and southerners mainly eat New Year cakes, especially the people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. New Year cake, also known as' New Year cake ', is homonymous with' high every year ', which means that people's work and life are improving year by year. If it is fried rice cake, Shanghainese like to put a little sugar in condiments. Feel better! As a kind of food, New Year cake has a long history in China. In 1974, archaeologists found rice seeds in the matriarchal clan social site in Hemudu, Yuyao, Zhejiang Province, which shows that our ancestors began to plant rice as early as 7000 years ago. In the Han Dynasty, rice cakes were called 'rice cake', 'bait', 'CI' and so on. The ancients also had a development process from rice cake to powder cake in the production of rice cake. The recipe "Shici" in the sixth century contains the method of making "white cocoon sugar" of New Year cake, "cooked sorghum, rice, and those heated with pestle and mortar, pound it as Mizi Ci, which must be very cooked and do not have rice grains & hellip& hellip;' After steaming the glutinous rice, pound it into rice while it is hot, then cut it into the size of peach pit, dry it, fry it, roll it with sugar and serve.

There are many kinds of New Year cakes, including white cakes from the north, yellow rice cakes from farmers in the north of the Great Wall, Shuimo New Year cakes from water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, and red turtle cakes from Taiwan. New Year cakes have different flavors from north and south. Northern rice cakes are steamed and fried, both of which are sweet; In addition to steaming and frying, southern New Year cake also has slice frying and soup boiling. It tastes sweet and salty.

Hot pot for Chinese New Year:

In the south, there are usually hot pot and fish. The hot pot is boiling, steaming, warm and provocative. Many people like to eat hot pot during the Chinese New Year. First, all kinds of delicacies can be eaten in hot pot regardless of meat and vegetables; Second, eating hot pot for the Chinese New Year means red fire and good luck. Many hot pot restaurants specially launch Spring Festival packages during the Spring Festival. The family gather around to eat a special hot pot, which is warm and has a good atmosphere.

Fish head hot pot: eating fish head is a great hobby of Chinese people. A delicious fish head sometimes costs more than the fish itself. Nowadays, the most popular way to eat fish head is hot pot, especially the spicy flavor in Chongqing, supplemented by the exclusive special bean chili sauce of Sichuan flavor. You can smell the pungent aroma at the moment of serving. It tastes spicy but not dry, fresh but not fishy. It tastes fragrant at the entrance and has a long aftertaste. If you want to try this hot pot, you can go to tan Yutou. Not only the bottom of the pot is hot, but also the fish head is hot. The whole pot is red and beautiful, with good color and taste.