Everyone knows that it's going to be a new year. Do you know what kind of food people want to eat in the new year? Every family has already started to prepare new year's products. What's the good thing to eat in the traditional Chinese new year?
What does the traditional Chinese new year eat
1, dumplings
Xiaonian in the north is used to eating dumplings in the evening, which means to see off the kitchen god. It means' send off dumplings to face the wind '. At the time of offering, the dumplings should be put on the altar.
In addition, there is a folk saying that "delicious but dumplings". Every Spring Festival, dumplings become an indispensable food.
2, sticky cake
There are folk songs of "23, sticky cake and sticky" in Luxi area of Shandong Province. Every year, on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, it is the day for families to steam and eat sticky cakes, which means to stick the mouth of the kitchen king and make him say good things.
Don't say bad things. Sticky cake with yellow rice, red dates and other raw materials, sweet and strong way, soft entrance, take the 'high year by year' meaning of auspicious. In addition, Hainan people use coconuts as ingredients to make coconut cakes for eating and praying, taking the auspicious meaning of "annual high".
3. Sesame candy
There is a saying in the northwest of Shanxi that "twenty-three people can't eat sesame sugar and nibble their fingers". It is said that Xiaonian was the day when the kitchen god went to heaven. He went to heaven to report to the emperor how much food and clothing he had spent in the past year and what he wanted to know.
That is, the report day of the kitchen god? Eating sesame sugar is to make the kitchen god's mouth stuck by sugar, and not to report the delicious and luxurious situation of the world to the heaven, so as to avoid punishment for people who love to eat and drink -- famine in the new year, and looking forward to a safe and fruitful year.
4, rice cake
On the 23rd of the lunar month, the folk is commonly known as "Xiaonian". There is a custom of making rice cakes in Wuxuan, Guiping and other places in Guangxi. Rice cake is made of glutinous rice flour, peanut, sesame and sugar.
Put it into the mould and make it into a round shape. After steaming at high temperature, it tastes unique and has the meaning of "round and round".
5. Kill pig
In the Langdong of Lianhua, Xinhe of Xiling, shuibin mountain village of Guanyin and other places in Gongcheng Yao Autonomous County, there is a custom of killing pigs for the Spring Festival. After the new year's Eve (December 23 in the lunar calendar).
The lively play of killing pigs will be opened. Select the best meat, stir fry or stew, cook carefully, and fill up with a glass of wine. Invite relatives and friends to share the first fresh meat after the slaughter of pigs - soup.
6, burning
On the day of sacrificing to the kitchen, besides eating cooking sugar, burning is also a special seasonal food. On the day of sacrifice to the kitchen on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the business of the pancake stall in the city is very prosperous.
7, annual rice dumplings
Nanning people have the custom of eating "new year dumplings". The new year dumplings are auspicious symbols of the new year. As the saying goes, "new year dumplings, new year high school (Zong)". New year's zongzi is different from the cool zongzi of Dragon Boat Festival.
It has filling, big and small, long and short, round and flat. After peeling off the leaves, the skin is glutinous rice, and the stuffing is mung beans and pork. Some people also put their favorite food as stuffing.