The food that is often eaten on New Year's Day is rice cake, which symbolizes higher harvest in the new year. Tangyuan, whose moral is to symbolize the reunion of a family; Jiaozi and northern jiaozi eat more; Fish, its moral is to hope to have more than one year.
New Year's Day is also called Yuanri, Yuanzheng, Yuanchen, Kainian, Yuanchun, Shangri, Chinese New Year and so on. The traditional New Year's Day in China actually refers to the first day of the first month, while the world holiday New Year's Day refers to the first day of January in the Gregorian calendar. The word New Year's Day first appeared in the Book of Jin in China, and its meaning is a new beginning.