Holiday food

Festival food is rich and varied. It is often rich in nutrients, pleasing art form and deep cultural connotation are cleverly combine,become a typical festival food culture. Can be divided into three categories:

One is used as sacrificial offerings. In the old days of the court, official, clan, family of special worship, celebrations and other ceremonies played an important role. The majority Han Chinese in the contemporary area, this phenomenon has long been over, only in a few remote areas or certain specific occasions, but also retain some symbolic event.

The second is for people to eat at a particular festival food products. This is the main festival of food and eat custom. Such as New Year's Eve, the North every household has the habit of dumplings, and rice cake southern parts of the popular play, the custom of eating rice cakes, while the Han Chinese New Year's feast in many parts of the fish often ultimately symbolizes the "annual surplus." Dragon Boat Festival custom of eating dumplings, inheritance is not bad for thousands of years. Mid-Autumn Festival moon cake, and combine with the human kinship reunion and personnel of the blessings of harmony. Others, such as when the consumption  spring, spring rolls, the fifteenth day of the yuanxiao festival, the Lunar eighth day of December, to eat rice porridge, cold Cold Food Festival, Lunar New Year on February 2 to eat pig's head, biting beans, and the epistemic Valley section of the new food, drink festivals in marriage wedlock, birthday feasts of the peach, peach, cake life, are the special holiday customs of food and has a special meaning eat custom.

Dietary beliefs, taboos

Han offen in the first day, two, three days bogey of Health, that is, before the Lunar New Year food than cooked, and the holidays just days skillet. That is cooked along, sang, inverse, which in some places all the preparations will be complete in the year, three-day holidays between the said fixed knives and scissors. Again, in some areas to flood the temple in Henan for the millet birthday, the day not eat rice, millet or will lead to cuts; the past in a variety of women's reproductive period of more food taboos. Many areas such as the Han during pregnancy eat rabbit meat, rabbit meat to eat that would give birth to a child born cleft lip; there where fasting fresh ginger, fresh ginger shape as more than that, lest the child grow Six-fingered hands and feet. Han is not the last birth of women, many not eat dog meat, dog meat is considered unclean, and the food is easily lead to difficult labor and so on.