1. Eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve means getting rich and treasure: in Chinese folklore, eating "jiaozi" on New Year's Eve is an important feast that can't be replaced by any delicacies. "jiaozi", also known as "Jiaozi" or "Jiaoer", means the alternation of the old and the new, and it is also a great feast food that must be eaten. Eating jiaozi means "making friends at a younger age", and "zi" means "zi Shi", which is homophonic with "jiao", meaning "happy reunion" and "good luck". In addition, jiaozi, shaped like an ingot, eats jiaozi during the Chinese New Year, which also has the auspicious meaning of "making a fortune". The choice of dumpling stuffing has a direct relationship with the implication. The most common leek stuffing implies the meaning of long-term wealth, because long time means long time and long time, which is called long-term wealth. The typical Chinese cabbage stuffing in winter means a hundred treasures. Finally, there is sauerkraut that Nanjing people love to eat, which is said to have the meaning of calculating wealth.

2. Eating chicken in the New Year means there is a plan: on a rich dinner table on New Year's Eve, chicken is naturally indispensable. On New Year's Eve, the first dish to eat at dinner in many places is chicken, because it means good luck. There must be a chicken on the dining table for the New Year's food, because "eating chicken starts". The local Hakka people in Guangzhou worship God and use chickens and geese as "firstborn", and they all choose "walking chickens", which means that survival is fierce.

3. Eating rice cakes during the Spring Festival means getting better every year: Hunan should eat rice cakes for the first meal during the Spring Festival, which means "getting better every year", while a small number of Miao people in Hunan eat sweet wine and zongzi for the first meal during the Spring Festival, which means "life is sweet and crops are plentiful".

4. Eating fried piles in the New Year means that the house is full of gold and silver: for Cantonese, making fried piles in the New Year means that "the fried piles are endless and the house is full of gold and silver". As early as the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Qu Dajun recorded in "Guangdong Xinyu": "Those who fry the pile take glutinous rice flour as the size circle and fry it in oil, so as to worship the ancestors and give gifts to relatives and friends." In the past, it was a grand thing to make fried piles. It was necessary to drive all the children out of the studio and say auspicious words while frying, so as to pray for a long future.

5. Eating Zhangcha duck in the New Year means neat and tidy: Sichuanese believe that the most important thing in the New Year is that the family is neat and tidy, so the dishes are all whole duck (Zhangcha duck), whole fish (fragrant roasted mandarin fish) and whole hoof, which embodies the concept of "whole"; A dish (soup) containing pig's ears and oxtail represents "a head and a tail".

6. Eating ruyi dishes during the Spring Festival means "rise" and "hair": Shanghainese pay attention to the kindness of the Spring Festival dishes, and there are really many things that must be eaten. In addition to fish, chickens and ducks, there are also two kinds of dishes, fried collapsed vegetables and sweet and sour silver silk teeth. In addition, ruyi dishes (that is, soybean sprouts) and sprouted beans are necessary, symbolizing "rise" and "hair".