1, preserved meat

Precooked meat, preserved sausage, preserved fish is a must-have Chinese New Year food for families in some southern regions. Spicy Sichuan sausage, slightly sweet Cantonese sausage, red-colored Xiangxi bacon, Jinhua ham are very popular traditional folk food.

2, dumplings

Dumplings are a must-eat food for the New Year in the north, because of its Yuanbao-like shape, was given the symbol of "fortune", people also put the auspicious coins, candies, jujubes, peanuts and so on wrapped in the filling. Eating coins to symbolize the New Year to get rich, eat candy that the next year, life is sweeter, eat peanuts is a symbol of health and longevity.

3, rice cake

Early Suzhou people to commemorate Wu Zixu, New Year's Eve to make rice cakes, and then gradually prevalent in all parts of the country, such as Shandong's red jujube rice cake, Beijing's fruit rice cake, Fujian taro rice cake and red / white sugar rice cake, Ningbo's water milled rice cake, Suzhou's osmanthus sugar rice cake, and so on. Rice cake, which harmonizes with the word "year high", is a must-have food for the Spring Festival, which sends people's expectation of "yearly high".

4, oil angle

Oil angle is one of the Guangzhou home snacks, different tastes in various places, the raw materials used are not the same, some are sweet, and then there are vegetables, the method is basically the same, that is, the fillings used are different, sweet package of sugar, salty vegetables can be replaced.

5, fish

Chinese New Year's diet pay attention to the good moral, of course, without fish, usually the last dish on the table, some places this dish basically stayed uneaten, meaning that "years of surplus". And some places on the selection of the New Year's Eve dinner in the fish is also concerned, silver carp for the year, crucian carp and carp for good luck, salmon for the rich and powerful.