It's best to eat eight-treasure porridge, apples, jiaozi, pistachios, red dates and eggs during the Spring Festival.

Eight-treasure porridge is also called Buddha porridge. The boiled eight-treasure porridge is very bright in color, soft and sweet. Drinking more eight-treasure porridge properly has the effect of benefiting qi and calming the nerves, especially for the elderly and children at home. A very suitable fruit to eat on New Year's Day is apple, because apple symbolizes peace, health and longevity, and it is very good to be safe and healthy in the new year, and it is rich in dietary fiber and vitamin C.

As the saying goes, the first day you eat jiaozi, the second day you eat noodles, which means that the first day is the time to eat jiaozi, and the second day is the time to eat noodles. The best jiaozi to eat on the first day is jiaozi with leek and egg stuffing, because the leeks in spring are very fresh and tender, and jiaozi is in the shape of an ingot after being wrapped. Eating jiaozi on the first day also means that the Year of the Tiger is prosperous.

The first day of the lunar new year

In the traditional farming society, beginning of spring is an important day for spring returns, and a large number of festivals and customs related to it have been derived. Although festivals and festivals have been separated since then due to the promotion of the system of the combination of Yin and Yang in the historical development, many festivals and folk customs have remained.

The Spring Festival evolved from praying for the New Year at the beginning of the year. In ancient times, people held sacrificial activities at the beginning of the new year when spring returned to the earth and everything revived, in order to repay the kindness of the gods and ancestors of heaven and earth, ward off evil spirits and pray for good luck at the end of the year. Although the situation of ancient sacrificial ceremonies is unknown, we can still find some ancient custom relics from later festivals. For example, during the New Year's Day and the New Year in some areas of Lingnan, there are grand activities such as offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, exorcising evil spirits, accepting blessings and saving the nation, which shows the clues of the first year of ancient times.