Eat dates (spring comes early), persimmons (all goes well), almonds (happiness comes), tofu (family portrait), three fresh vegetables (Sanyang Kaitai), longevity fruit (immortality), rice cake (rice c

Eat dates (spring comes early), persimmons (all goes well), almonds (happiness comes), tofu (family portrait), three fresh vegetables (Sanyang Kaitai), longevity fruit (immortality), rice cake (rice cake) New Year's Eve rice cakes (rice cakes are getting more expensive every year)... Of course, the variety of New Year's Eve dinners is even more abundant now. Chicken, duck, fish, delicacies, and about the best dishes that can be seen in a year are all on the table. According to traditional folk customs, New Year's Eve dinner customs vary across my country: northerners eat dumplings, southerners eat rice dumplings and water-milled rice cakes, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong and other places eat Yuanxiao on the first day of the Lunar New Year, either fried or boiled; people in Zhangzhou, Fujian On the morning of the first day of the lunar month, they eat raw garlic and preserved eggs; the Chaozhou people of Guangdong eat the local unique "fuyuan" on the first day of the lunar month; the Hui people eat noodles and stewed meat on the first day of the first lunar month, and only eat dumplings on the second day of the lunar month. Wontons: Eating wontons during the New Year means the beginning of the year. It is said that Pangu opened the sky and split the earth, so that "the light and clear air that floats up is the sky, and the heavy and turbid air that condenses down is the earth." This ended the state of chaos and created the four directions of the universe. Furthermore, "wonton" and "hundun" are homophonic, which means a full store of food. New Year Cake: The custom of eating New Year cake during the Spring Festival began in the Song Dynasty and flourished in the Ming Dynasty. Eating rice cakes, from the auspicious meaning of "every year (sticky) high (cake)", is interpreted to mean rising every year. Fish Eating fish during the Spring Festival is very particular, as it indicates that there will be plenty every year, so eating fish during the Spring Festival is a custom among old Beijingers