1, Laba porridge
In ancient China, the Emperor of Heaven and the monarch made a La Worship out of dry things in December of the lunar calendar to worship the gods. La Worship later became popular among the people, and its custom has continued to this day, that is, eating Laba porridge (called "laba rice" in some places) on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month to celebrate the harvest.
The book "Laba Porridge at Yanjing Age" records: "Laba Porridge is cooked with yellow rice, white rice, glutinous rice, millet, water chestnut rice, chestnuts, red Jiang Dou and peeled jujube paste. And externally dyed red peach kernels, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts, white sugar, brown sugar and exotic grapes.
2, rice cakes
The rice cake is steamed with glutinous rice or rice flour, which belongs to the seasonal food of the Lunar New Year. There are three colors of rice cakes: red, yellow and white, which symbolize gold and silver. Also known as "rice cake", it is homophonic with "getting taller every year", which means that people's work and life are getting better every year.
3. Tangyuan
Tangyuan, also known as Yuanxiao, Tangtuan and floating Zi Yuan, is a spherical food made of glutinous rice flour. There are usually fillings, which are eaten with soup when cooked. In Jiangsu, Shanghai and other places, people are used to eating jiaozi on the morning of New Year's Day. Tangyuan symbolizes better family reunion, and eating tangyuan means family happiness and reunion in the new year.
4. jiaozi
Jiaozi originated in ancient jiaozi and was originally named Joule. It was first invented by Zhang Zhongjing, a Nanyang doctor in the Eastern Han Dynasty. It is also called jiaozi, which is a New Year's food. There is a folk song called "Xiao Han, eat jiaozi in the New Year."
Jiaozi's homonym "jiaozi" is the moment when the New Year and the Old Year intersect. Eating jiaozi during the Spring Festival means good luck. Besides, jiaozi is shaped like an ingot, and wrapping jiaozi means good luck.
5. Spring rolls
Spring rolls are also called spring cakes, spring plates and pancakes. Spring rolls are made by frying dry noodles in leather bags, which evolved from the custom of eating spring rolls that day in beginning of spring. In the south of China, we don't eat jiaozi during the Spring Festival, but eat spring rolls and sesame jiaozi.