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.

2. jiaozi cooks 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".

3. 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.

4. 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".

5. 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.

6.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 stuff wonton, which was eaten from 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.

7. 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.

8. Chicken

"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".

9.lamb cake

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.

10, 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.

1 1, lettuce

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