1. In most parts of Hunan, the first meal of the Spring Festival is "rice cake", which means "every year is higher" and "every year is better", while the Miao people living in Hunan eat sweet wine and zongzi for the first meal of the Spring Festival, which means "life is sweet and grain is abundant".
2. In the south, there are usually hot pot and fish for New Year's dinner. Hot pot boiling, steaming, warm and tempting, red hot. Many people like to eat hot pot during the Spring Festival. For one thing, you can eat all kinds of delicious food in hot pot, no matter meat or vegetable; Second, eating hot pot for the Spring Festival symbolizes prosperity, and has won a good fortune.
3. In the eastern part of Hubei, there are "three steaming", "three cakes" and "three pills". "Three steaming" means steaming whole fish, whole duck and whole chicken; "Three cakes" are fish cakes, meat cakes and sheep cakes; "Three balls" are fish balls, meat balls and lotus root balls.
4. The New Year's Eve dinner in southern Jiangxi is usually 12 courses. In some places of Zhejiang, there are generally "ten bowls", which are used for "ten blessings", mainly chicken, duck, fish, meat and various vegetables.
5. In central and southern Hunan, there must be a carp of about 1kg, called "Tuannian Fish", and a pig elbow of about 3kg, called "Tuannian Elbow".
6. There are two fish on the table in central and southern Anhui. One is a complete carp, which can only be seen but can't be eaten. It shows respect for ancestors and annual surplus. The other is a silver carp, which can be eaten. It symbolizes connecting children and grandchildren and thriving population.
7. In Nanchang, there are rice cakes, braised fish, fried rice noodles, eight treasure rice, and boiled soup, which symbolize rising year by year, fish every year, good harvest, rice bunches, eight treasure for wealth, and prosperity every year.
8. Sour soup dumplings: Sour soup dumplings are a traditional Han snack with an ancient history in Shaanxi, which has a history of more than 1000 years. Sour soup dumplings are mutton dumplings eaten in special sour soup. The sour soup contains 13 kinds of spices, including shrimp skin, cooked sesame, chopped coriander, chopped leek, butter, sesame oil, chicken oil, sweet vinegar, soy sauce, etc.
9. Large plate chicken: Xinjiang large plate chicken gets its name from the large plate containing chicken pieces. It has been popular in Xinjiang for decades. At present, Xinjiang Dapanji has basically formed a series of varieties. Every visitor to Xinjiang can taste it. Xinjiang Dapanji is a pleasure.
