1. Because of its homophonic "high" and diverse tastes, rice cakes have almost become a must-have food for every household. The styles of rice cakes are square yellow and white rice cakes, which symbolize gold and silver and express the meaning of making a fortune in the New Year.

In some areas of Guangdong, the first meal of the Spring Festival is to eat "Wan Nian Liang", which means to prepare enough food for the whole family for three days of the Spring Festival, meaning "don't worry about eating and drinking".

It is a custom for northerners to eat jiaozi on New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month, but now many Renye Fang and South Renye Fang have joined the ranks of eating jiaozi. Eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve means "good luck in the coming year", while eating jiaozi on the first day of the first month is for good luck in the coming year.

Jiaozi, the breakfast on the first day of the first month, must have a more special meaning. It means: everything goes well and the whole family is happy.

5. Long noodles, also called longevity noodles, are eaten on the first day of the first month, which means "every year" and wishes a hundred years of longevity. Many old people still keep this custom.

6. Chicken Soup Drink chicken soup on the first day of the first month, symbolizing "peace". In addition, the main laborers in the family have to eat chicken feet, which means "catching money in the New Year".

7. Sweets Eating sweets on the first day of the first month means that life in the new year is beautiful and sweet.

Second, the second day of the first month.

The noodles on the second day should be jiaozi noodles on the first day. And this must be cold soup. That is, noodles are cooked and soaked in cold water, which is called cold soup. Nowadays, people usually cook noodles or fry some sauces to make noodles or Zhajiang Noodles. However, it must be soaked in cold water to maintain the custom of "eating noodles on the second day of school"

On the second day of the first month, the daughter (son-in-law) went back to her parents' home to pay a New Year call. Generally, you must eat the leftovers from the New Year's Eve dinner, such as chicken. Keep your head, wings, feet and tail on New Year's Eve, and you can eat them on the second day of New Year's Eve. You should cook more meals and save them for the second day of the New Year's Eve. There must be bacon sausages, fish and noodles.

On the second day of the first month, people will sacrifice the whole pig, the whole sheep, the whole chicken, the whole duck and the red live carp to the God of Wealth in the north. On this day, both commercial shops and ordinary families will hold activities to worship the god of wealth. Sacrifice should use five major offerings, namely whole pig, whole sheep, whole chicken, whole duck, red live carp and so on. I hope to make a fortune this year.

Third, the third day of the first month.

The third day of the first month is the birthday of Xiaomi God. On this day of sacrifice, rice is not allowed.

1. As the saying goes, the zygote turns home on the third day. Hezi is a kind of China pasta, which is popular in northern China, especially in Beijing and Tianjin. Leek, fennel, eggs and pork are more common, and the collocation of leek+eggs, fennel+pork and leek+pork is the most common and popular. Zygotic dough generally does not use fermented noodles, but uses hot noodles and cold water. The zygote is thin and stuffed, delicious and very popular.

2. In some places in northern jiaozi, it is popular to eat jiaozi on the third day. Because some people need to go out early and come back late at this time, they are in a hurry to go to work, so the famous saying of folk customs is: "Go out and be charming, enter the facade." In other words, when relatives leave home, they will eat jiaozi to keep them safe and reunite next year. The blessings of relatives at home are all wrapped in jiaozi.

Fourth, the fourth day of the first month.

Leftovers from a feast

On the fourth day of the first month, the whole family had a discount together. The so-called folding basket is a hodgepodge of leftovers from grades one to three. In the past, people were not rich, and the leftovers on the first day were reluctant to pour, and the leftovers on the second day were "stacked" together. Leftovers have a special taste, and some people like them.

Fifth, the fifth day of the first month.

Jiaozi's "breaking five" eating jiaozi means that people expect good luck and happiness. Old Beijing pays attention to it. You must chop the meat stuffing from jiaozi yourself, and so must the vegetable stuffing. In this case, it indicates that everything will go well in the coming year, and all unsuitable ones will be cut off. Jiaozi, which is famous for breaking the five-year plan, pays attention to the fact that the stuffing is meatballs, and the shape of jiaozi is oblate, much like the ingot symbolizing wealth in ancient times. Family reunion to eat jiaozi means that in the new year, we can increase our wealth and live a better life.

Sixth, the sixth day of the first month.

The foolproof "year off" has passed, and everything has returned to normal life, and you can eat anything as usual.

Seven, the seventh day of the first month

1. Qibaotang

The seventh day of the first month is "People's Day". It is said that Nu Wa created the world at the beginning, and after creating animals such as chickens, dogs, pigs, sheep, cows and horses, she created people on the seventh day, so this day is the birthday of mankind.

People eat "soup" made of seven kinds of dishes every day, which is called "Qibao soup". In addition to eating "seven-dish soup", some areas also eat "first porridge" and "noodle line" which symbolize good luck and success step by step.

2. Noodles

In addition, some places have the custom of eating noodles on this day, which means to wrap the legs of the years with noodles to show longevity. In addition, the 17th and 27th of the first month are also regarded as "personal days". The seventh, seventeenth and twenty-seventh days of the first month are the "days" for children, adults and the elderly respectively. Whoever wants to live a life will eat noodles.

3. jiaozi

Eating jiaozi on the morning of People's Day is called "squeezing the mouse's mouth", and you can't light a lamp at night. It is said that it is to let the mouse marry a daughter-in-law, so as not to harm people. Zichuan eats small tofu on this day, symbolizing eating mouse brains.