Spring festival

In terms of Chinese catering, we definitely should mention the most important festival, Spring festival, Chinese New Year. It has a overwhelming impact on every Chinese and it just likes a bond which ties families together. People who scatter around the country or world would go back to their hometown and celebrate this awesome festival by enjoying the traditional foods.

Dumplings

Dumplings are one of the most typical foods during Spring Festival also every Chinese would have them for new year’s eve dinner. Here are several reasons contribute to their dominate position in Chinese new year’s dinner tables.

(By: dake1986 www.nipic.com)

Firstly, the shape of a dumpling is just like a gold ingot. Having dumplings represents a hope of harvesting wealth and fortune in the next year. 

(By: larrysun www.nipic.com)

Secondly, stuffing a dumpling means putting happiness, health and other best wishes into it and giving our blessing to our families. More interestingly, we would put a coin or a candy in one of the dumpling. The people who eat this one is believed to be the luckiest one.

(By Huiling Wen)

Sweet dumpling/ Tang Yuan

Another traditional food in Spring festival is sweet dumplings, which are obviously different from the dumplings we just talked about not only by their flavor, but also their meanings. 

(By: Yu chongyang, City News)

Basically, the Chinese new year lasts for 15 days and the Lantern Festival is the last day. In this day, the families would gather together to make the sweet dumplings, which make with glutinous rice and stuff with sweet filling. Round in shape, tang yuan symbolizes family unity, completeness and happiness.

                                      
                                                               (By: newcar.xcar.com.cn)
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