Special food of Chinese Spring Festival

You must have ever heard of Chinese Spring Festival. Now the Chinese Spring Festival is coming, which is of vital importance to all the Chinese people. All family members come together to eat at this time. Foods for Chinese Spring Festival are not only delicious but it is traditional to eat certain foods over this festival. So I’m now introducing you some traditional food for this important day.

Fish, Chinese Dumplings, Spring Rolls, Nian Gao are usually seen as delicious and eaten at this time.

Fish
In Chinese, Fish sounds like "save more". Chinese People always like save more money at the end of year because they think if they save more, they can make more in the next year.

Fish

Chinese Dumplings
With a long history of more than 1,800 years, dumplings are a traditional food widely popular in China, especially in North China such as in Zhengzhou, Chengde, Dalian, Harbin, etc. Dumplings generally consist of minced meat and finely-chopped vegetables wrapped into a thin and elastic piece of dough skin. Popular fillings are mince pork, diced shrimp, fish, ground chicken, beef, and vegetables. They can be cooked by boiling, steaming, frying or baking. Legend has it that the more dumplings you eat during Spring Festival celebration, more money you can make in the New Year.

Chinese Dumplings

Spring Roll
Spring rolls are a Cantonese dim sum dish of cylindrical shape. The filling of spring rolls could be vegetables or meat, and the taste could be either sweet or savory. After fillings are wrapped in spring roll wrappers, the next step is frying. Then the spring rolls are given their golden yellow color. It is a dish especially popular in Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Fujian,Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, etc. They get their name because they are traditionally eaten during Chinese New Year Celebration.

Spring Roll

Nian Gao/Glutinous Rice Cake
In Chinese, Nian Gao sounds like "getting higher year by year". In Chinese people's mind, the higher you are, the more prosperous your business is. Main ingredients of Nian Gao are sticky rice, sugar, Chestnuts, Chinese date and lotus leaves.

Nian Gao/Glutinous Rice Cake

Fish, Chinese Dumplings, Spring Rolls and Nian Gao are the four symbols of Chinese Spring Festival food. Do try them!