1. In China, dumplings and rice cakes are usually eaten on New Year's Day. Eating dumplings means "Jiaozi", and eating dumplings means "Jiaozi", and "Zi" means "Zi Shi". "Jiao" is homophonic with "dumpling", which means "happy reunion" and "good luck", meaning farewell to the old and welcoming the new. Nian Gao: also known as sticky cake, which means year after year. Dumplings and rice cakes are traditional Chinese foods. While bringing people joy during the New Year, it has become an important part of Chinese food culture.
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2. In South Korea, rice cake soup and cakes are usually eaten on New Year's Day. Rice cake soup symbolizes growth in the new year and is a traditional Korean delicacy. The most typical Korean food is rice cake soup. It is said that on the first day of the Lunar New Year, Koreans must drink a bowl of rice cake soup because they believe that they cannot grow one year older without eating rice cake soup. Dagao is also one of the indispensable foods for Koreans during the Chinese New Year. It uses glutinous rice as the main raw material. The making process of Da Gao pays attention to "Da Gong". New Year cake is made of glutinous rice flour, while Da Gao is made of beaten glutinous rice.
3. In Japan, buckwheat noodles are generally eaten on New Year’s Day. Buckwheat noodles symbolize health and longevity. Buckwheat is grown in many areas of Japan, and the history of soba noodles can be traced back to the Edo period. At that time, soba noodles were a food that people prayed for happiness, and today many people still give soba noodles as gifts. It is said that according to traditional customs, the whole family gathers together to eat soba noodles on New Year's Eve. It is precisely because of the special status of buckwheat noodles in the hearts of Japanese people that it is also called "New Year Noodles".
4. In Singapore, it is common to eat fish on New Year’s Day. Fish on fish is delicious and symbolizes “the prosperity of the country”. During the New Year, Singaporeans must eat "Liao Qi Yu Sheng". It is rich in color and delicious. Because it symbolizes "the rise of prosperity" and reposes people's hope for happiness in the coming year, it is a good omen, so it is widely eaten. popular.
5. In Vietnam, rice dumplings are usually eaten on New Year’s Day. The shape of the rice dumplings is very similar to the glutinous rice chicken we often eat. The food that Vietnamese people must eat during the New Year is rice dumplings. The whole family eats them together on New Year’s Eve, and they also give them to each other as gifts during the festival. Vietnamese rice dumplings are rarely seen in Guangzhou. Because they are relatively square in shape and larger in size, more like a glutinous rice chicken, they are also called "square rice dumplings".
6. In Malaysia, nasi lemak is usually eaten on New Year’s Day. Nasi lemak is milky white in color and exudes a strong coconut fragrance. It is said that nasi lemak is the favorite food of Malaysian singer Pinguan, and it is also the most traditional New Year food for Malaysians. As long as you walk into any local restaurant in Malaysia, you can almost find it.
? 7. The New Year’s Day diet in ancient China was rich and colorful, and the description in "Jingchu Sui Sui Ji" is a concentrated reflection. In the Southern Dynasty, Jingchu celebrated New Year's Day greetings, followed by drinking Jiaobai wine, peach soup, Tusu wine, Jiaoya glutinous rice, and Wu Xin plate. They also took powdered powder, took Quegui pills, and ate an egg each. There are drinks, food, and medicines, all of which have their own special meanings.
Jiaobai wine. Jiao refers to Chinese prickly ash, with a fragrant smell, and taking it makes one feel light and resistant to old age; cypress refers to cypress leaves, which the ancients regarded as a fairy medicine that can prevent all kinds of diseases. Pepper and cypress can be soaked in wine separately, or they can be put into wine together for drinking. Drinking pepper and cypress wine can cure diseases and live longer. Ancient poems have left us records of drinking pepper and cypress wine on New Year's Day. Yu Xin of the Southern Dynasty wrote in "Zhengdan Menglai Wine": "On Zhengdan, bad wine is eliminated, and in the New Year, the cup of longevity comes. The cypress leaves come with the inscriptions, and the pepper flowers follow the chants." It depicts the joy of being rewarded with pepper and cypress wine during New Year's greetings. Drinking pepper and cypress wine has been handed down among the people. This custom was practiced in Licheng, Shandong and Jiaxing, Zhejiang during the Ming Dynasty.
Peach soup. That is to take the leaves, branches and stems of peach, boil it and drink it. The ancients regarded peach as the essence of the five elements, which can suppress evil spirits. To control hundreds of ghosts, drink it.
Tusu wine. Han E of the Tang Dynasty recorded in "Sui Hua Jili·Jin Tu Su": "It is commonly said that Tu Su is the name of the thatched hut. In the past, people lived in that hut. Every year on New Year's Eve, they put a medicine paste in the hut, soaked the bag in the well, and fetched water on the first day of the year. Drink it in a wine bottle and the whole family will not get sick from the plague. Nowadays, people get the prescription without knowing the name of the person, but it is just a day. "The main functions of the eight herbs listed are to clear away heat, disperse wind, strengthen the spleen, and remove dampness." It is beneficial and harmless to the body.
Glue tooth paste. Du Gongzhan of the Sui Dynasty commented on "The Chronicles of Jingchu" that the meaning of "glue teeth" is "to make it firm and immovable". In fact, this custom places a good wish on longevity, because the teeth are strong, you can eat and drink, and you are naturally healthy. The Sui Dynasty Notes also said that "people in the north are like this now", which shows the widespread nature of this custom. However, after the Southern Song Dynasty, the glutinous rice cake was used as an offering to the stove and slowly disappeared from the New Year's Day food.
Wuxin plate. As a Yuan Day food, it was first seen in "Feng Tu Ji" written by Zhou Chu during the Wu and Jin Dynasties. It said that five pungent vegetables should be eaten in the morning of Yuan Day "to help develop the five Tibetan qi" ("Jade Candle Collection" Volume 1). Wuxin vegetables are five kinds of spicy vegetables. The Sui Dynasty Notes in "Jingchu Suishiji" say that they are garlic, garlic, leeks, Yuntai, and coriander. As mentioned in "Fengtu Ji", it can activate the five internal organs and is a thing to pray for health. It can be seen that the tradition of eating pungent vegetables in Yuan Dynasty has a long history.
Apply in powder. It is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine. The prescription comes from Ge Hong's "Refining Chapter". It is made from cypress seeds, hemp seeds, asarum, dried ginger, aconite, etc., and is drunk with clean well water.
Queguimaru. The prescription mentioned in the Sui annotation of "Jingchu Suishiji" is: two liang of Wudu Xionghuang Dan powder, mixed with wax to make it look like a pellet. On the morning of the first day of the first lunar month, men wear it on their left arm and women wear it on their right arm. on the arm.
This way the ghost will escape. However, "The Chronicles of Jingchu" says that Quegui Pills were taken, which is different from the Notes. It may be that wearing them was a later custom. Yu Jianwu, a Liang writer in the Southern Dynasties, wrote in his "Yingzhizhi" at the end of the year, "The golden book pictures the divine swallow. The red mud quenches ghost pills", which shows that there are preparations for quenching ghost pills on New Year's Eve.