春節必備的九大暖心美味食物
Have you planned for the special food traditionally served during the upcoming Chinese New Year? If not, we have nine recommended delicacies to add to your New Year's menu.
農曆新年眼看馬上就要到了，要準備什麼傳統食物您想好課嗎？如果還沒有，我們這裏爲您的新年菜單呈上9款佳餚！Dumplings
餃子
Dumplings are always a popular food in Northern China and often find their way on the table during Spring Festival. Different cooking methods of cooking, such as boiling, frying and steaming can create dumplings with different tastes. Chinese dumplings date back to the Southern and Northern Dynasties (420-581).
餃子是中國北方人們熱衷的食物，在春節期間更是餐桌必備。餃子有不同做法，煮、煎、蒸，各俱風味。中國餃子的歷史可追溯到南北朝(420-581)時期。
Spring pancake
春餅
It is traditional to eat thin pancakes on the day of the solar term Beginning of Spring. Having a bite of the pancake with fresh vegetables rolled in it means to take in the vigor and energy of spring.
立春吃春餅是傳統習俗，一張薄餅捲進新鮮蔬菜，咬一口，意味着汲取了春的生機和活力。Sweet dumplings
湯圓
Sweet dumplings are often made of white sugar, rose, sesame, sweetened bean paste, nuts and date paste. Because of their round shape, sweet dumplings are always considered a symbol of a good reunion in Chinese culture
湯圓通常由白糖、玫瑰花、芝麻、豆沙、果仁和棗泥製作，因其形狀圓滿，在中國文化中，湯圓常寓意團圓。Rice cake
年糕
A rice cake is mainly made of sticky rice. In the past, yellow and white rice cakes symbolized gold and silver. Its pronunciation is similar to "live long" in Chinese, which gives "rice cake" another auspicious meaning.
年糕主要由糯米制成，在過去黃、白年糕象徵黃金和白銀，年糕與“年高”諧音，寓意吉祥。Wonton
餛飩
The shape of a wonton bears a resemblance to a shoe-shaped gold ingot that Chinese people used in ancient times, so wonton soup is also called ingot soup. The second day of the first lunar month is the time to worship the God of Wealth, and people have wonton soup to wish for wealth in the New Year.
餛飩與中國古人用的鞋形元寶相似，因此，餛飩湯也叫元寶湯。正月第二天是祭財神的日子，在那天，人們會喝元寶湯以祈願新一年財運亨通。Melon-shaped sweets
糖瓜
Made of millet and malt, melon-shaped sweets are very sticky. They are often stored outside of the house to stay crisp in winter.
糖瓜是由小米和麥芽熬製成的粘性很大的糖，爲保持鬆脆，冬天糖瓜常置於室外。Rice and millet
大小米粥
In North China, people often eat rice and millet that are cooked together during Spring Festival. Yellow millet and white rice also symbolize gold and silver, wealth and fortune in life.
在中國北方春節，人們常喝大小米混合熬製的米粥。黃色的小米和白色的大米象徵着金銀，寓意着生活中的財富。Wu Guo soup
五果湯
Wu Guo soup is one of the traditional Cantonese delicacies for the lunar New Year. It is made of coxi seed, gordon euryale seed, dried longan pulp, lotus seed and red bean.
五果湯是廣東地區的新年傳統美味，主料有薏米、芡實、桂圓、蓮子和紅豆五種珍果。Tu Su wine
屠蘇酒
Tu Su wine is a kind of medicinal liquor that ancient Chinese consumed on Chinese New Year's Eve. It contains more than seven kinds of traditional Chinese medicine herbs. Sun Simiao, a celebrated doctor in the Tang Dynasty (618-907), promoted Tu Su wine in China. "Tu Su" means to defend from evil and harm and to stay alive.
屠蘇酒是古人在除夕喝的一種藥酒，含7種多的傳統草藥，由唐朝(618-907)名醫孫思邈推廣開來。“屠蘇”二字意味着驅邪避害、益壽延年。
