What should I eat for the Spring Festival?

You should eat rice cakes, glutinous rice balls, jiaozi, fish and eggs in the New Year.

1, rice cake

Eating rice cakes on New Year's Day means higher expectations and gains for the new year. Eating rice cakes on New Year's Day was very popular in Ming and Qing Dynasties, but now it is more popular in South China, especially glutinous rice cakes.

2. Tangyuan

Eating jiaozi in the New Year means reunion. On this day of universal celebration, people like to reunite with their families, eat delicious food, share the harvest of this year, sum up the gains and losses, and think about the goals and plans for the new year. Eating glutinous rice balls on New Year's Day also hopes that the whole family will be round and round.

3. jiaozi

Eating jiaozi on New Year's Day originated in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The family get together, have a chat with jiaozi, tell each other about their unhappiness and grievances in their work and life, and share their joys and gains. Time passed before you knew it, and steaming jiaozi came to the table. The warmth of home warmed Guizi's heart. Eating jiaozi on New Year's Day is very popular in the north.

4. Fish

People will eat fish on New Year's Day, which is also a very important day. Fish also means having it for more than a year. Eating fish on New Year's Day, especially braised fish, means that the new year is booming, more and more every year.

5. eggs

In some areas of our country, there is also the custom of eating an egg on New Year's Day, which is said to have appeared during the Wu and Jin Dynasties. According to ancient books, swallowing an egg raw is called body-building. Here, shaping is a Taoist term, which means shaping, thinking that you can become an immortal.