Headed by the centennial festival, the Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation. Influenced by China culture, some countries and regions in the world also have the custom of celebrating the Spring Festival.
According to incomplete statistics, nearly 20 countries and regions have designated the Spring Festival in China as a legal holiday in all or part of the cities under their jurisdiction. Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. The folk custom of Spring Festival was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
Seasonal food for the Spring Festival:
1, the rice cake belongs to the seasonal food of the Lunar New Year, with red, yellow and white colors, symbolizing gold and silver. A kind of cake steamed with sticky glutinous rice or rice flour, which is sweet and sticky in the south, symbolizing a sweet and better life in the new year.
2. jiaozi, called "jiaozi" in ancient times, has a tradition of eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve in the north, but the custom of eating jiaozi varies from place to place. Some places eat jiaozi on New Year's Eve, and some places eat jiaozi on New Year's Day. Northerners who don't eat jiaozi for 30 nights will feel that there is no atmosphere for the New Year. Some mountainous areas in the north also have the custom of eating jiaozi every morning from the first day to the fifth day.
3. Spring rolls are also called spring cakes. Eating spring cakes at the beginning of spring is an ancient custom in China. In the Jin Dynasty, there was a "five taro plates", that is, "spring plates", which put spring cakes and vegetables in the same plate.