The first day of the Spring Festival is the first day of the new year. This day is the beginning of the new year. Of course, people must prepare well. The most important thing is what people eat. There are many traditional Chinese foods. What does it mean? What should we eat on the first day of the Spring Festival?

1. Glutinous rice balls

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, southerners must eat glutinous rice balls for breakfast, which symbolizes a happy new year. Tangyuan is the most traditional snack in China. According to records, it originated in the Han Dynasty. Tangyuan has a variety of fillings, such as sesame filling, sugar filling, bean paste filling, peanut filling, etc., and tastes soft and waxy. Every year on the winter solstice, the first day of the lunar new year, and the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, there is a custom of eating glutinous rice balls, symbolizing family reunion and all the best. Why do we eat glutinous rice balls on New Year’s Day? Mainly because of its round appearance and sweet and beautiful taste, so everyone likes it.

2. New Year Cake

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, old people are used to eating New Year Cake. New Year Cake is a homophone for Nian Gao, which means that people’s work and life are getting better year by year. There are also yellow rice cakes and white rice cakes. Yellow rice cakes symbolize gold and silver and mean getting rich in the new year. This beautiful wish continues to this day. All men, women and children eat a bite of rice cake on the first day of the new year so that they can make progress in the coming year.

3. Eating dumplings

In the north, people are used to eating dumplings on the first day of the Lunar New Year. The dumplings are shaped like ingots. Among the dumplings eaten on the first day of the Lunar New Year, people also pay attention to the fillings of the dumplings. People use dumplings filled with auspicious foods such as coins, red dates and peanuts. During the New Year, the whole family eats dumplings, which symbolizes family reunion and happiness.

4. Ruyi Dishes

Ruyi Dishes is a must-have dish for southerners during the Chinese New Year and is also a southern specialty. The main raw materials of Ruyi Cai are Venetian blinds and soybean sprouts. The reason why it is called Ruyi Cai is because the appearance of the soybean sprouts looks very much like Ruyi Cai. Eating Ruyi dishes means everything will go well in the new year, which has a very good meaning.

The above is about the first day of the Spring Festival. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, people hope that the beginning of the year will be a good sign. People will eat some foods with good meanings in order to have a happy future in the coming year. Good results. In addition, there are many customs on the New Year's Day. I believe that after so many New Years, you must have some understanding of the New Year's customs. This is also the inheritance of traditional culture.