Luo Qingyan woke up in the morning and found that Xia Mochen didn't come back after he fell asleep, turned over and looked at Xia Mochen who had woken up next to him, "You're awake!" "Good morning, daughter-in-law!" Xia Mochen called his daughter-in-law, although he is now married and has children, Luo Qingyan is still very shy, his shy face is red, he put on his clothes with a red face, and ran to the kitchen.

Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year.

Legend has it that more than 4,000 years ago when Yao Shun was prosperous, Yao Tianzi was diligent in the people and did a lot of good things for the people during his reign, and was very loved by the people, but because his son was not talented and not very successful, he did not pass the throne of the "Son of Heaven" to his son, but passed it to Shun, who had both moral and moral talents. Yao said to Shun: "You must pass on the throne in the future, and you can look at it with peace of mind after I die." Later, Shun passed the throne to Yu, who had meritorious service in controlling floods, and Yu was also like Shun who was close to the people and loved the people, and did a lot of good things for the people, and was very loved. Later, after Yao's death, the day when Emperor Shun sacrificed heaven and earth and the first emperor Yao was regarded as the beginning of the year, and the first day of the first month was called "New Year's Day", or "Yuanzheng", which is said to be the ancient New Year's Day. [4]

The calculation method of "New Year's Day" (New Year's Day) was also very inconsistent before the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Therefore, the month and day of New Year's Day are not consistent in the past dynasties. The summer calendar of the Xia Dynasty used January of spring as the first month, the Yin calendar of the Shang Dynasty took December of winter as the first month, and the Zhou calendar of the Zhou Dynasty took November of winter as the first month. After Qin Shi Huang unified China, he took October as the first month of winter, that is, the first day of October as New Year's Day. "Shuowen Hebu": "Year, the grain is ripe." In the Xia Shang era, the summer calendar was produced, with the cycle of the moon being full and missing as the month, the year is divided into 12 months, and the day when the moon is not seen is the new month, and the sub-hour of the first lunar day is called the first year, that is, the beginning of the year, also called the year. Different times have different names. In the pre-Qin period, it was called "Shangri", "Yuan Day", "Change Year", "Sacrifice Year", etc.; In the Han Dynasty, it was called "Three Dynasties", "Zhengdan", "Yuan Ri", and "New Year's Day"; During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, it was called "Yuanchen", "Yuanri", "Yuanzhi", "Sui Dynasty", etc.; In the Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, it was called "New Year's Day", "New Year's Day", "Xinzheng", "Xinyuan", etc.; In the Qing Dynasty, it was always called "New Year's Day" or "Yuan Day". [5] However, in ancient times, the first day of the first lunar month was called "New Year's Day", until after the victory of the Xinhai Revolution in modern China, the Nanjing Provisional Government, in order to comply with the agricultural time and facilitate statistics, stipulated the use of the summer calendar among the people, and implemented the Gregorian calendar in government offices, factories and mines, schools and organizations, with the first day of the first month of the Gregorian calendar as the New Year's Day, and the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar called the Spring Festival.

On September 27, 1949, the founding of New China, at the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, approved the use of the Gregorian calendar era commonly used in the world, and designated the first day of the first month of the Gregorian calendar as New Year's Day, commonly known as the solar calendar year; The first day of the first lunar month is usually around the beginning of spring, so the first month of the first lunar month must be the "Spring Festival", commonly known as the lunar year.

These are the legends that Luo Qingyan knew in modern times, Luo Qingyan originally thought that there would be some discrepancies, but he didn't expect that except for some changes in the names of people, the others were actually the same, Luo Qingyan couldn't help but sigh at the magic of nature, such a magical era, he came over so magically, everything was so magical.

Luo lightly looked at the food prepared by the Su family and the Li family. In my own impression, in the life of modern people, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, there are regional differences in food.

1. Rice cakes

Because of the homonym "high year" and the variety of tastes, rice cakes have almost become a must-have food for every family. The style of the rice cake is a square-shaped yellow and white rice cake, which symbolizes gold and silver, and symbolizes wealth in the New Year.

2. 10,000 years of grain

In some areas of Guangdong, the first meal of the Spring Festival should be eaten "10,000 years of grain", that is, to make enough meals for the family to eat for 3 days of the Spring Festival, which means "not worrying about eating and drinking".

3. Dumplings

Eating dumplings on Chinese New Year's Eve and New Year's Day is a custom for northerners, but now many southerners have also joined the ranks of eating dumplings. Eating dumplings on Chinese New Year's Eve means "good luck in the coming year", and eating dumplings on the first day of the new year is to make good luck in the year.

4. Glutinous rice balls

The breakfast dumplings on the first day of the Lunar New Year must have more special significance, and its meaning is: everything goes well, and the whole family is reunited.

5. Noodles

Long noodles, also called longevity noodles, eat longevity noodles on the first day of the Lunar New Year, meaning "long every year", wishing a long life for a hundred years, and many elderly people still maintain such customs.

6. Chicken broth

Drinking chicken soup on the first day of the Lunar New Year symbolizes "peace". In addition, the main labor force in the family also eats chicken feet, which means "catching wealth in the New Year".

7. Sweets

Eating sweets on the first day of the new year means that the new year is a good and sweet life. Luo Qingyan's family is located in the same position as the north in modern life, so the food prepared by the Su family and the Li family includes rice cakes, and there are many good dumpling skins, a handful of pulled noodles, and some rice balls, which are very diverse, and there are more people in the Luo family, so the Su family and the Li family have prepared more, and the varieties are slightly more diversified, depending on what everyone likes to eat, they will do anything, some people like sweet, such as Yuyan and Zhixia, the two of them eat rice balls, like the four brothers of Qingzhu from a little more than a region in the south, They prefer to eat noodles on the first day of the Lunar New Year, so as to take the meaning of longevity noodles, so the four brothers eat noodles, "Yan'er, you are up." What are you going to eat? Luo Qingyan looked at these rich foods, and saliva gushed in his mouth, "Mother, Aunt Li, good morning, eat ......" Luo Qingyan couldn't say what to eat for a long time, Li smiled, "Then let's have a little bit, that is, I want to taste a little bit of the same!" Luo lightly licked the corners of her mouth, Aunt Li really understood herself, "I found that I was really getting more and more greedy!" Luo was a little embarrassed and teased himself, "What's the matter, pregnant people are like this!" Su Shi mentioned the child in Luo Qingyan's belly, and everyone's topic was instantly brought here, "Yan'er, you say, is it a boy or a girl in your belly?" Luo smiled lightly and touched his stomach, "How do I know this, whether it's a boy or a girl, it's also well-behaved!" "Luo Qingyan really doesn't have any patriarchal thoughts, since she was pregnant, Luo Qingyan has been glad more than once that the Luo family she crossed over does not have patriarchal thoughts." I see, this should be a son, so fond of spicy food! "I see, I'm afraid it's a girl, and it's not too noisy!" "I see, ,......" and "......" everyone is speculating, and the first day of the new year is spent in constant laughter!