1, North: People in northern China eat jiaozi for the first meal in the New Year, and jiaozi looks like an ingot, which means cherishing it. Some fillings in jiaozi are filled with sugar to make the New Year sweet. Some stuffing put peanuts (called longevity fruit), the intention is that people who eat can live longer; There is a kind of dumpling stuffing with a coin, which means that whoever eats it will "get rich"

2. South:

(1) Different places in the south, but the same thing is that everyone eats fish, which means there are fish every year.

(2) Chongqing people "buckle meat" and "pour sea pepper" during the New Year. In most parts of Hunan, the first meal of the Spring Festival is to eat "rice cakes", which means "getting better every year".

(3) The Miao people in Hunan eat sweet wine and zongzi for the first meal during the Spring Festival, which means "life is sweet and the grain is plentiful".

(4) Drinking chicken soup during the New Year in some places in Hubei symbolizes the peace of Qing Tai. In some places in Guangdong, the first meal of the Spring Festival is to eat "grain for ten thousand years", that is, to take out or steam enough food for family members to eat for three days during the Spring Festival, which means "not worrying about eating and drinking".

(5) The New Year's Eve dinner in southern Jiangxi is usually 12.

(6) In some areas of Guangdong, the first meal of the Spring Festival is to eat "ten thousand years' grain", that is, to take out or steam enough food for the family to eat for three days during the Spring Festival, which means "not worrying about eating and drinking".

(7) In Chaozhou area, the first meal of the Spring Festival often eats "rotten round" fried with rice flour and dried radish, and drinks "five-fruit soup" boiled with solid fruit and lotus seeds, which means "life is sweet and has a long history".

(8) There are generally more than ten dishes in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, paying attention to four cold dishes, four hot dishes, eight big dishes and two soups. Nanchang area must eat rice cakes, braised fish, fried rice noodles, eight-treasure rice and boiled thick soup, which in turn means annual rise, fish every year, abundant crops, string rice, eight-treasure rice and prosperity every year.