Tasty Spring Festival美味的春节

The Spring Festival is coming！ Are you ready to enjoy the festival？ Let’s begin with the yummy food.

New Year' s Eve dinner begins！

年夜饭上桌了！

New Year’s Eve dinner is the biggest dinner of the year. Family members get together and enjoy delicious food. It is the happiest time for each family！ This dinner is to say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new year.

Dumplings

幸运饺子

On New Year’s Eve（除夕）， every family in northern（北方的） China will make dumplings. The dumplings look like ingots（元宝）. People hope they will get more money in the new year.

The colorful wrappers（饺子皮） are made of vegetable juice.

Do you know？

Sometimes people put a clean coin（硬币） or a peanut in a dumpling. If you eat it， you will get rich or lucky（幸运的） in the new year.

Lucky fish 年年有“鱼”

Fish is a lucky food during the Spring Festival. It sounds like（听上去像） “surplus（余）” in Chinese. People think it will bring them more money and good luck in the new year. Every family in our country will eat fish.

Flowery buns

蒸花馍

They are so cute and beautiful. And you can eat them. They are from northern（北方的） China. People make the dough（生面团） into many shapes（形状）， like animals and flowers. It has a history（历史） of over 1，000 years.

Rice cake

年糕 年年“高”

The rice cake is made of rice. It is sticky（粘的）. People in southern（南方的） China will eat rice cakes for the Spring Festival. It shows you are getting better and better year after year.