2022 Happy new year
New Year's Day
Most countries in the world celebrate New Year's Day on January 1st. Due to the different longitude positions and times of different countries around the world, the date of "New Year's Day" also varies. Tonga, an island country in Oceania, is located on the west side of the solar line and is the first place in the world to start a day and also the first country to celebrate New Year's Day. Western Samoa, located on the east side of the Japanese border, is the latest place in the world to start a new day. According to the Gregorian calendar, China is the 12th country in the world to start the New Year.
Customs of New Year's Day:
Set off firecrackers, worship gods, and ancestors first.
What to eat on New Year's Day: Dumplings, rice dumpling, rice cakes, glutinous rice cakes
1. New Year's Day Traditional Food: Dumplings
In the north, most northerners make dumplings on New Year's Day. It's colder in winter, so steam a few steaming plates of dumplings and add some sauce and vinegar. The taste is truly more fragrant than any other delicacy.
2. Traditional food on New Year's Day: rice dumpling
When I was young, I heard songs singing: sell rice dumpling, sell rice dumpling, and the rice dumpling here is round and round...... Rice dumpling is very popular in the south. Traditional festivals like New Year's Day and Lantern Festival will cook a rice dumpling, symbolizing reunion.
3. New Year's Day Traditional Food: New Year's Cake
New Year's Cake has a good meaning. Eating Nian Gao has a good intention of increasing years, originating from the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions. However, nowadays, eating Nian Gao is also very popular in the south.
4. New Year's Day Traditional Food: Ciba
Many people may be very strange to Ciba, especially the northerners, because only the southerners will make Ciba to eat in specific festivals. Ciba is made of glutinous rice flour, which is kneaded into mud, then wrapped with various fillings, fried or steamed. There are many ways to make Ciba and eat it.
