Delicious Food In Traditional Chinese New Year

In this edition of Health Room, we introduce the traditional delicacies during the Lunar New Year.
On 7 Thursday is Chinese New Year and is the most festive holiday for Chinese people in one year. Celebrating Lunar New Year is also called to celebrate the new year. Relax and recreation plus traditional delicacies are reasonable is an important content in celebrating the Lunar New Year.
The main delicacies during the Lunar New Year holiday is jiaozi or dumplings, especially in parts of northern China. Jiaozi is food of meat dumplings wrapped in skins and cooked in water. Generally, at 12 the night before Chinese New Year, every family has settled all dumplings wrapped, and waiting time to be cooked (about 11 pm until 1 am), when it is precisely the turn of 'years old' and 'new year', eating jiaozi taken from the meaning of 'off the old year and welcome the new year'. So, when celebrating the Chinese New Year, no matter how abundant food on the table, the Chinese people must not forget to eat jiaozi.
Dumpling-making process is quite complicated, from Kneading content, grind skin to wrap it up, all of them need to involve the whole family labor, thus manifesting the harmony in the family. For example, Kneading dumpling contents, need to chop up the meat first, then the necessary vegetables, plus the seasonings according to their own tastes. Sound chop up meat and vegetables on top cutting board harder and longer, in Chinese pronunciation homonym, meat plus vegetables means 'has the wealth', while chopping meat or vegetables voice grew louder and the time was getting longer, have a sense of 'wealth increases eternal'. It also shows, old time family who chop up the meat, which means lots of dumplings wrapped and symbolizes their life prosperous and rich. When the dumpling wrap, fold and twist the skin necessary for its diverse, if neat memilinnya called 'make a fortune', that was twisted like a''rod-shaped gold or silver shoes in the feudal age of China ", symbolizing wealth everywhere. In rural areas, skin dumpling that was twisted like a grain pattern that symbolizes the new year would harvest. When cooking dumplings and boil the water needs to be increased three times in cold water in small amounts, restore negates Chinese homonym of luck. It can be said, of making dumplings to eat it, all contain folk culture is thick.
Round also represents another kind of delicious food at the feast of Chinese New Year. In the southern region of China, the round is usually served on Cap Go Meh --- 15th of Lunar calendar's first month, but modern people a little less concerned with the habit, just listed as good food in the Lunar New Year holiday.
Rounds made from glutinous rice flour, and its contents including sugar, sesame, red bean, walnut seeds, dried beans and fruits and others, there is also filled with meat, round flavors in the southern and northern China differs a lot. While eating way too different, there is a cooked, fried or steamed. Now to meet the needs of modern people will speed and convenience, many shopping centers throughout the year providing a variety of rounds and frozen. Certainly, the sales volume is the most widely rounds during this traditional holiday.
Cake bed is also a good food at the feast. Homonym cake bed pronunciation in Chinese, i.e 'every year ride', it stated desire of people will be living a more beautiful from year to year. Materials cake beds divided into two kinds, namely from sticky rice flour and rice flour yellow. While a variety of ways to consume them, can be cooked in gravy with mixed vegetables and meat, also can be added natural perfumes and steamed. The legend says, cake, bed is offering sacrifices to ancestors, then gradually become a traditional holiday meal on Chinese New Year, and over 2,000 years have been historic.
Chinese population and its territory much broader, the amount of delicious food is a lot of different places. Food on Lunar New Year holiday that we described was just a small part. It could be argued, the Chinese nation as an ancient agricultural nation, always have high expectations petition survived on food at the feast. For example, Chinese people in some areas while partying at the feast of the Lunar New Year food is not always add the raw, such as eating dates or lotte means' the coming of early spring ", dining tikwe or dried persimmons which means' every thing goes well ', ate apricot seeds symbolizes 'coming of luck', while eating out means the whole family 'happy'. Overall it shows the love the Chinese people to pray for safe and tranquil life.