1, the customs on the first day of the Lunar New Year include eating jiaozi, eating rice cakes, watching lanterns to worship ancestors and setting off firecrackers. Of course, in order to protect the environment, fireworks and firecrackers are banned in many areas, with the focus on reunion.

The custom of New Year's Day is also divided into north and south. Jiaozi is popular in northerners and rice cakes are popular in southerners. Every New Year's Day, northerners will eat jiaozi, and the custom of eating jiaozi on New Year's Day was very popular in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Quwo county records: "two scales of grain are guaranteed, and husbands are invited to compete for fun."

There are various ways to eat jiaozi in New Year. The fillings in jiaozi are pork, fish, three fresh meats, leeks, beef, mutton, mushrooms, tomatoes and eggs, as well as Crown jiaozi, Butterfly jiaozi, Goldfish jiaozi and Lace jiaozi.

Eating rice cakes on New Year's Day was popular in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and it was very popular in southern China. In the second volume of Scenery of the Imperial Capital in the late Ming Dynasty, it was recorded that "it is exciting to eat jujube cakes and rice cakes every day".

5. The rice cake and the annual high-pitched homonym have beautiful meanings and people's good hopes. There is a poem that says rice cakes like this: "The meaning of rice cakes is a little deeper, as white as silver and as yellow as gold. I hope that when I get old, I will be profitable, and I sincerely hope that my wealth will come. "

6. In the early days, rice cakes were used to worship gods and ancestors, and later they gradually developed into a well-known delicacy.