Jiaozi is an indispensable food on the dinner table in the north. Jiaozi and jiaozi are homophonic, meaning "making friends when young". Besides, jiaozi looks like an ingot. Eating jiaozi during the Spring Festival means "the way to make money". People will also wrap coins in jiaozi, so people who eat this jiaozi will have good luck in the new year.

Jiaozi Zhu noodles

Many places in Henan will eat noodles cooked by jiaozi on the morning of New Year's Day, which is called "gold thread penetrates gold ingot". On New Year's Eve, making friends to cook and fish for food is called "fishing for gold ingots".

New Year cake; rice cake

In the early days, Suzhou people made rice cakes to commemorate Wu Zixu during the Spring Festival. Later, it gradually became popular all over the country, such as jujube rice cakes in Shandong, baiguo rice cakes in Beijing, taro rice cakes and red/white sugar rice cakes in Fujian, Shuimo rice cakes in Ningbo and osmanthus sugar rice cakes in Suzhou. The homophonic "rice cake" is a necessary food for the Spring Festival, which places people's expectations on it.

noodles

Some areas in Fujian have to eat noodles (mostly noodles) on the morning of New Year's Day, which means "for a long time".

fish

The food in the Spring Festival pays attention to good meanings, and of course fish is indispensable. It is usually the last dish on the table. In some places, this dish basically stayed, meaning "more than one year". Some places are also very particular about choosing fish for the New Year's Eve dinner. Silver carp is more than one year, crucian carp is more prosperous, and salmon is more prosperous.

wonton

In Jingjiang, Jiangsu Province, you must eat wonton whether you are entertaining guests, having a holiday or having a happy event. On the morning of New Year's Eve, every household began to cut vegetables and wrap wonton, which was eaten on the 30th to 15th of the first month. "Wonton is wine, and the more you eat it, the more delicious it is", which pinned the good wishes of Jingjiang people for the new year.

tangyuan

On New Year's Day in Sichuan, we should have jiaozi for breakfast. On this day, jiaozi is called "Yuanbao" and eating jiaozi is called "Deyongbao", which means reunion, perfection and sweetness. Yangzhou People's Congress will eat Sixi Tangyuan on the first day of the Lunar New Year, which means all the best and family reunion. Shanghainese also eat glutinous rice balls for breakfast on the first day of the new year, which means they are full, rich and powerful.

chicken (as food)

"No chicken, no feast" is the mantra of Cantonese people. You must eat Guangdong-Hong Kong chicken during the Spring Festival. Chicken sounds like Ji, which means good luck and good luck all your life. Hubei people want to drink chicken soup during the New Year, which symbolizes the peace of Qing Tai. Chicken wings mean flying high, chicken feet mean "grasping money in the New Year", and eating chicken bones means "getting ahead".

Cooked glutinous rice is mashed into paste.

Tujia nationality in Xiangxi, Hunan Province is known as "BaBa". On the twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month, Tujia people always make glutinous rice cakes, and Hakka people also have the habit of eating cakes on holidays.

zongzi

Zhuang people in Guangxi have the custom of eating zongzi during the Spring Festival. Every year, a few days before the Spring Festival, the dealer will pack or buy zongzi, and all the guests in the first and second days will eat zongzi.

Lettuce; lettuce

Cantonese people also eat lettuce in the New Year, which is homophonic with wealth and symbolizes prosperity and strength in the coming year.

Poached Egg

In the custom of the Spring Festival, some places have the tradition of eating and delivering eggs, which is also essential at the dinner table, and is called "reunion eggs". Eating poached eggs on the morning of New Year's Day means that the new year will be rich in financial resources.

Fuju

Fuju is a specialty of Fujian. In some areas, during the Spring Festival, it is necessary to show and eat Fuju. Tang Ju is homophonic with "Ji", meaning "Fu" and "Ji", which means good luck, good fortune and treasure.

Bazhen eight treasure rice

Eight-treasure rice is an essential food for Shanghai people's traditional New Year's Eve dinner, which symbolizes reunion, auspiciousness and peace.

Taipingyan

An indispensable dish in Fuzhou's New Year's Eve dinner is Taiping Yan, also known as Flat Meat Yan. Fuzhou people will eat Taiping Yan on holidays, weddings and funerals, and gatherings of relatives and friends. So there is a saying called "omnipotent, omnipotent".

Overnight meal

On New Year's Eve in Minnan, Fujian, a pot of rice is cooked and put on the dining table, and it is always placed on the first day of the first month, also called "annual meal", which means "more than one year".

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The Spring Festival is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation and the most important festival in a year. Spring Festival is the first day of the first lunar month, also known as Lunar New Year, commonly known as "Chinese New Year". In the development and inheritance of history, some relatively fixed customs and habits have been formed, many of which have been passed down to this day, such as sweeping dust, posting Spring Festival couplets, offering sacrifices to ancestors, paying New Year greetings, setting off firecrackers and paying New Year greetings.

There is a folk proverb in China that every household will set off firecrackers when the New Year comes. On the first day of the new year, people get up early, put on the most beautiful clothes, dress up neatly, go out to visit relatives and friends and wish good luck in the coming year.

The Spring Festival is the most solemn and lively traditional festival among the people in China. The Spring Festival evolved from the activities of offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors at the beginning of ancient times. Although there was a custom of New Year in ancient China, it was not called Spring Festival at that time. In ancient times, the Spring Festival once referred to beginning of spring in the 24 solar terms, and later it was changed to the first day of the first lunar month, which was regarded as the beginning of the lunar year, that is, the beginning of a year.

According to legend, Nian animals are afraid of red, fire and explosion, and they haunt on New Year's Day. Therefore, on the first day of New Year's Day, people pay New Year greetings, put up Spring Festival couplets, hang New Year pictures, stick grilles, set off firecrackers, give out red envelopes, wear new clothes, eat jiaozi, watch the New Year, dance lions and dragons, hang lanterns and kowtow.