In China, every Chinese New Year and festival always celebrates the arrival of the festival with a variety of delicious food, which does not give it a beautiful meaning. The new year is coming soon. The traditional food used to celebrate the new year is different in different parts of China. Each place has different tastes. So what do you eat for the new year in Guangdong? In this article, I'll take stock of the traditional food and beautiful meaning of the new year in Guangdong. Let's have a look.
What do you eat for the new year in Guangdong
Rice cake
In Guangdong, the necessary new year's product during the new year is new year cake. Even if you don't eat it, you should put a piece at home to show a 'good intention'. New Year cakes have a good color head -- 'year high', which has the meaning of making money, step by step and sweetness, implying a perfect and sweet life in the new year. Cantonese like to slice rice cakes and fry them in a pot. A bite down, the surface aroma is pungent, inside is sticky soft glutinous New Year cake, coupled with the sweet taste, adults and children like it very much.
Egg powder
Zhou people also fried eggs for the new year, known for their crispness. It is said that once during the Chinese new year, when everyone prepared peanut, sesame, sugar and other fillings to wrap the oil horn into the pot, one family was too poor to buy fillings, so they flattened the dough originally used to make the oil horn into the pot. The poor people come out of dough to greet friends at the new year's Eve. They find them crisp and crisp. The entrance is delicious. So they ask their names. The poor people think about it and say, 'because the ingredients have eggs, and the characteristics of the instant entrance are like scattered shelves, they call them egg powder.'
Poon Choi
Eating potted vegetables is a traditional custom in the coastal areas of Guangdong, the new territories of Hong Kong and even Southeast Asia. During the Chinese new year, the family gathered together to taste the rich and steaming potted vegetables and gossip about family life. Some people say that the second thing is the atmosphere. You don't need to be polite when eating potted vegetables. It's not impolite to turn the dishes around with chopsticks, because good materials sink the bottom of the pot and a variety of free eating methods are more suitable for family reunion.
Cured meat
It is a traditional custom in Guangdong to eat preserved meat during the Chinese New Year. Preserved meat is a kind of delicious food only years ago, such as sausage, bacon and pig scalp. It tastes delicious and salivating. In the old agricultural society, housewives have been busy collecting new year's food since the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. Because it takes a long time to pickle cured meat, it must be started as soon as possible.
Tangyuan(glutinous rice ball)
Most southern families are used to the traditional custom of sitting together and having dumplings on the morning of the Spring Festival. It is said that Lantern Festival symbolizes family reunion. Eating Lantern Festival means family happiness and good luck in the new year. It is a common custom all over the country to eat yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month.
Oil angle
People in Guangzhou want to fry the oil horn during the new year and take the meaning of "wok" in order to make the next year's day as oily and rich as that oil wok. In the past, people in Guangzhou, whether rich or poor, always had to open the oil wok at the end of the year. The size of the oil horn indicates that the family is safe. The auspicious meaning of the oil horn symbol: the shape is like a 'purse', that is, a wallet.
dried oyster meat
In South China, there are chicken, roast meat, Nostoc flagelliforme, oyster sauce and so on, because 'Nostoc flagelliforme oyster sauce' is homonymous with 'getting rich and good city'. Oyster black bean, also known as' dried oyster ', the dried product of oyster (also known as oyster) meat, is a must eat dish for the Spring Festival in Guangdong. Oyster sauce is the best food for calcium supplement. It is rich in phosphorus. It is conducive to calcium absorption because it needs the help of phosphorus when calcium is absorbed by the body.
Trotter
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