Customs of Spring Festival in Northeast China: After entering the twelfth lunar month, kill a pig first and invite the villagers to have a meal to celebrate. Then wrap the sticky tofu brain and make tofu. Sticky bean bags are mostly glutinous rice with bean stuffing on leather bags, which are available in almost every family, ranging from several hundred kilograms to dozens of kilograms, and can be eaten for a winter. Eat jiaozi on the first and fifth days of the Lunar New Year.
Customs of Spring Festival in Northwest China: When eating jiaozi, the wrappers of dumplings are not rolled out one by one, but rolled into a large piece and buckled with a bowl.
Spring Festival custom in southern Henan: Eat New Year's Eve dinner until midnight, and then serve a plate of fish when the New Year bell rings to show that there is more than enough money every year. On the morning of the first day, jiaozi was cooked with noodles, which means money-oriented, which means making a fortune.
Shanghai Spring Festival custom: eat glutinous rice balls, rice cakes, rice cakes, cloud cakes and so on. On New Year's Day, there is also a fable "getting higher every year" and "getting higher step by step". In addition, eating soybean sprouts (also called "ruyi cuisine") symbolizes all the best, and eating sprouted vegetables (soaking broad beans) means making a fortune.
Sichuan Spring Festival custom: On New Year's Eve, Sichuanese usually eat hot pot. On the first morning of the first day, they eat glutinous rice balls, which means reunion.
Hunan Spring Festival custom: We will eat chicken, meat and fish on New Year's Eve. Chicken requirements are roosters, whole chicken stew, and look up when loading; Fish should be silver carp, stewed and sprinkled with red pepper powder, which symbolizes that there is more than one year, and the grain is abundant. On New Year's Day, the head of the family prepares morning tea and cooks eggs, popcorn, red dates and sugar together. Eggs are round, symbolizing family reunion; Popcorn symbolizes a bumper harvest of fish and rice and a bumper harvest of grains; Red dates and sugar symbolize the sweetness and happiness of life.
Hui people's Spring Festival custom: eat noodle stew on the first day, and eat jiaozi on the second day.
Zhuang nationality's Spring Festival custom: eating boiled chicken and "New Year's Zongzi" during the Spring Festival. On New Year's Eve, Zongzi was sacrificed on the altar, and it was not until the third day of the first month that the family got together to eat to show their reunion.