Hubei province, the first meal of the Spring Festival is sweet wine and dumplings.
In some places in Hubei, the first meal of the Spring Festival chicken soup, symbolizing the "Qingtai peace". In addition, the main labor force at home to eat chicken claws, meaning "New Year's catching money"; young students to eat chicken wings, meaning that they can spread their wings and fly; when the family ate chicken bones, there is "outstanding" meaning. Jingzhou, Shashi area, the first meal to eat eggs, meaning "solid, good luck". In case of guests, to eat two boiled very tender, can be seen through the egg white yolk of the "poached egg", meaning "silver wrapped in gold, gold wrapped in silver, gold and silver".
Poyang District, Jiangxi Province, the first meal to eat dumplings and fish, meaning "hand over the son" and "year after year", some put sugar cubes, flowers and silver coins in the dumplings, meaning "sweet life" and "longevity". Some put sugar cubes, flowers and silver coins in the dumplings, meaning "sweet life", "immortality" and "wealth in the New Year".
Some areas of Guangdong, the first meal of the Spring Festival to eat "ten thousand years of food", that is, enough to do a good job of the Spring Festival three days of the family to eat the meal, meaning "no worries about food and drink" meaning. Chaozhou area, the first meal is often eaten with rice flour and dried radish deep-fried into the "rot round", drink Gorgon fruit, lotus seeds and other boiled into the "five fruits of the soup", meaning "life is sweet, far-flung" meaning.
Guangxi Zhuang people eat sweets at the first meal of the Spring Festival, said the new year life is good, sweet, as expected.
Fujian Minnan people eat noodles for the first meal of the Spring Festival, which means "long years", and the Zhangzhou area eats sausages, loose eggs and ginger, which means "more and more prosperous days".
Jiangsu, Zhejiang, part of the Spring Festival, the first meal to eat by celery, leeks, bamboo shoots and other components of the "spring plate", meaning "hard work for a long time.
Some places in Anhui, the first meal of the Spring Festival, each person to bite a mouthful of raw radish, called "Bite Spring", can be "bacteria and disease prevention, New Year's good luck".
Some places in Guanzhong, Henan, the first meal of the Spring Festival to eat dumplings and noodles cooked with rice, called "gold thread through the treasure", "silver thread hanging gourd".
Taiwan, the first meal of the Spring Festival to eat "long years of vegetables", is a long stem and leaves, bitter mustard. In some cases, long, thin vermicelli are added to the dish, which means "continuous and everlasting".
The New Year's Eve dinner in southern Henan is served until midnight, when the New Year's bell rings, and then a plate of fish is served to show that there is plenty of money for every year. On the morning of the first day, dumplings and noodles are cooked and eaten together, with the noodles representing money strings, which means wealth.
Shanghai people on the first day of the New Year eat dumplings, rice cakes, bee cakes, rice cakes, cloud cakes, etc., a symbol of "high year after year", "step by step". In addition, eating soybean sprouts (also known as "Ruyi vegetable") to symbolize all the good things, eating sprouts (with broad beans soaked) means wealth.
Sichuan New Year's Eve, generally eat hot pot, the first morning to eat dumplings, meaning reunion.
The Spring Festival, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, also known as the lunar year, commonly known as "New Year". This is one of the grandest and most lively traditional festivals in China. The Spring Festival has a long history, which originated in the Yin Shang period at the end of the year to sacrifice to the gods and ancestors.
The Spring Festival is here, meaning that the spring will come, the recovery of grass and trees renewed, a new round of sowing and harvest season will begin. People have just passed through a long winter of ice and snow, grass and trees withered, have long been looking forward to the days of spring, when the new spring is coming, naturally, to be full of joy singing and dancing to meet this festival.
Over the centuries, people make the New Year celebrations have become very colorful, every year from the 23rd day of the lunar month to the 30th, the folk called this period of time "Spring Day", also known as the "dust day", in the Spring Festival before the dust to engage in sanitation, is a traditional habit of our people. Our people have traditional habits.
Then it is the family to prepare for the New Year's goods, about ten days before the festival, people began to busy purchasing items, New Year's goods, including chickens, ducks, fish and meat, tea, wine, oil and soy sauce, North and South fried goods, sugar bait and fruits, to buy enough, but also to prepare for some of the New Year's Eve when visiting friends and relatives when the gift, the children to add a new coat and a new hat, ready to wear on New Year's Day.
Prior to the festival in the residence of the door to paste the red paper and yellow letters of the New Year message, that is, written in red paper Spring Festival couplets. Inside the house posted brightly colored auspicious New Year's paintings, clever girls cut out beautiful window flowers pasted on the windows, hanging red lanterns or sticking the word "Fu" and the God of Fortune, the God of the Door, etc., the word "Fu" can also be pasted upside down, passers-by read the word "Fu" upside down, that is, the blessing of the arrival of the festival, all of these activities are to add enough to the festivities of the atmosphere of festivities.
Another name for the Spring Festival is the New Year. In past legends, Nian was an imaginary animal that brought bad luck to people. When the year came. Trees wither and no grass grows; once the year passes, everything grows and flowers are everywhere. How can the year pass? Need to bombard with firecrackers , so there is the custom of burning firecrackers, which is actually another way to bake a lively scene.
The Spring Festival is a happy and peaceful holiday, but also the reunion of loved ones, children away from home in the Spring Festival to go home to celebrate. The night before the New Year's Eve, is the old year's Lunar New Year's Eve, also known as New Year's Eve, also known as the reunion night, in this time of transition between the old and the new, the New Year's Eve is one of the most important annual activities, New Year's Eve night, the whole family stay up to keep watch together, get together to drink soundly, *** enjoy the joy of family, the northern region in the New Year's Eve to eat dumplings, dumplings, dumplings, dumplings, and the word is together; dumplings and dumplings and cross the harmony of the meaning, but also take more years of intercourse The dumplings have the meaning of "getting together" and "turning over the year". In the south, it is customary to eat New Year's cake on New Year's Day, a sweet and sticky cake that symbolizes the sweetness of life in the new year.
To the first rooster crows, or the New Year's bells ringing, the street firecrackers, loud and clear, the family is full of joy, the new year began, men and women, young and old, dressed in festive attire, the first to the elders of the family New Year's Eve wishes, the festival there are to the children of the New Year's Eve money to eat New Year's Eve dinner, the second and third began to go to relatives to see their friends and to pay tribute to each other, congratulations on the blessing, say some Congratulations to the new happy, Congratulations on the new year, congratulations, congratulations, good New Year and other words, ancestor worship and other activities.
The warm atmosphere of the festival is not only overflowing in every household, but also full of streets and alleys, some places on the market there are lions, dragon lanterns, fireworks, swim in the flower market, temple and other customs. During this period of lanterns all over the city, the streets are full of tourists, lively, unprecedented, straight to the first month of the 15th Lantern Festival, the Spring Festival is really the end.
The Spring Festival is the most important festival of the Han Chinese people, but the Manchu, Mongolia, Yao, Zhuang, white, mountain, Hezhe, Hani, Daur, Dong, Li and a dozen other ethnic minorities also have the custom of the Spring Festival, but the form of the festival is more of their own national characteristics, more flavorful.