(Multi-figure warning non-wifi do not look) It is the New Year, which is a carnival for foodies. China has a vast territory, a long history and many nationalities. A variety of north and south cuisine, a variety of snacks, first see what customs of various ethnic groups are in the New Year.
dumplings
Eat dumplings on the first day of the first lunar month, in the north of our country, almost every family. This meal is different from other dumplings of the year. This dumpling requires Chinese New Year's Eve wrapped in the evening and eaten at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night. Eating dumplings is to take the meaning of "more years of intercourse". This custom began in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, and the original harmonic sound of "Jiaozi" evolved into "dumplings". At the beginning of dawn, every household in the north eats dumplings, and in order to please the auspicious, northerners often wrap coins, sugar, peanut kernels, dates and chestnuts into the New Year's dumplings together with meat fillings. The person who eats the coin symbolizes the new year and gets rich; People who eat sugar indicate that the next year's days are sweeter; Eating peanut kernels symbolizes health and longevity.
rice cake
Almost all over the country are made of rice noodles and sticky noodles (also called rice cakes), which means "high every year". Most of the food eaten during the Spring Festival is prepared before the festival, and most northerners eat steamed buns. In the south, the rice was collected for the first few days, and it was called "ten thousand years of grain rice", which means that there is surplus grain every year. Rice cakes are also a must-have food for the Han Chinese to celebrate the New Year. There are many kinds of grains used to make rice cakes, and the practice varies from place to place. Among them, Jiangnan's water mill sticky cake is the most famous. In the north, they eat white cakes or yellow rice sticky cakes, and ethnic minorities in the southwest are accustomed to eating glutinous rice dumplings.
Ethnic Minority Spring Festival Food Customs
Mongolians – Chinese New Year's Eve, the family sat around the fire in the bag, and after offering the elders "ci nian wine", they feasted on roast leg of lamb and boiled dumplings.
Alpine people - Taiwan's alpine people have the custom of eating "long-term vegetables". Perennial vegetables are also called "mustard greens", and eating this dish indicates a long lifespan. Some people add long vermicelli to the long-term dish, symbolizing immortality.
Manchu- Chinese New Year's Eve family banquet is very rich and grand. Staple foods include glutinous rice flour or dumplings wrapped in flour, fire-roasted, bean buns, etc.; Traditional Chinese New Year dishes include delicious blood sausages, boiled white meat and unique sauerkraut white meat, and fish dishes that symbolize auspicious celebrations are even more indispensable. When you are young, you also have to eat a meal of fresh meat dumplings that are sent to the old and welcome the new.
Zhuang people - Chinese New Year's Eve cook all day's meals in the evening to show that there will be a good harvest in the coming year. This kind of rice is called "rice dumplings", and some of them are more than a foot long and weigh five or six pounds.
Lahu people – every Chinese New Year's Eve make glutinous rice dumplings, one of which is particularly large, said to symbolize the sun and the moon, to pray for a smooth and fruitful new year.
Dong people - early in the morning of the first year, get a few large and fresh carp from the pond, fry, fry, fry, stew, stew, put on the table, and add a plate of fragrant pickled fish, the whole table is mainly fish. The Dong family said that eating fish during the Spring Festival indicates that the new year is auspicious and festive with surplus (fish), abundant grains, and surplus money and surplus grain.
Li people - during the Spring Festival, families slaughter pigs and chickens, prepare delicacies and wine, and the whole family sits around to eat "New Year meals" and sing "New Year songs" during the banquet. On the first or second day of the Chinese New Year, people hunt collectively, and the prey is distributed to the first shooter to hit the prey, and the remaining half is divided equally, and pregnant women can get two copies of the prey.
Jingpo people - During the Spring Festival, every family brews water wine and toasts to the elders.
The Daur people live on both sides of the Heilongjiang and Nen rivers. Chinese New Year's Eve New Year's Meal is a steamed yellow rice cake, and in the early morning of the first month, people who greet each other will grab rice cakes as soon as they enter the door to pray for the improvement of life every year.
Wa - In addition to greeting each other for the first time in the New Year, they also gave sticky rice dumplings, sugar cane and plantains to wish a harmonious, sweet and beautiful family life.
Tujia family - At the family reunion dinner table, there must be a lump of meat and a combination of dishes.
Uyghur - New Year family feast food includes: "Puluo" made of rice, mutton, raisins, etc., "Pitil manda" (buns) made of flour, mutton, onions, etc., "Geshe" (hand-grabbed lamb) cooked with boneless lamb, "Lanman" (noodles) made of dough, and "Ququer" similar to Han wontons. In addition, there are a variety of ethnic traditional pastries and snacks, such as "Isim Sangza" (disc steamed buns), "Yaimaza" (lace steamed buns), "Bohusak" (fried Jipi), "Shamu Posa" (fried hezi), "Kayikka" (colorful fried food), etc.
Tibetans – during the Spring Festival, guests are served with barley wine, butter tea and pastries.
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