1. New Year’s Rice Dumplings Nanning people have the custom of eating “New Year’s Rice Dumplings” during the off-year. The New Year’s Rice Dumplings are a symbol of auspiciousness in the New Year. As the saying goes: “New Year’s rice dumplings, every year’s high school (rice dumplings)”.

The New Year rice dumplings are different from the cold rice dumplings used during the Dragon Boat Festival. They have fillings, big or small, long or short, round or flat.

After peeling off the leaves, the skin is made of glutinous rice and the filling is mung beans and pork. Some people also put their favorite foods as fillings.

2. Rice cakes: Folks in Wuxuan and Guiping, Guangxi have the custom of making rice cakes.

Rice cakes are made of glutinous rice flour as the main ingredient, peanuts, sesame seeds, and sugar as ingredients. They are put into molds and shaped into round shapes, and then steamed at high temperatures. They taste unique and have the meaning of "reunion and reunion".

3. Killing pigs to celebrate the Spring Festival. Places such as Landong in Lianhua in Gongcheng Yao Autonomous County, Xinhe in Xiling, and Waterside Village in Guanyin all have the custom of killing pigs to celebrate the Spring Festival.

After Little New Year's Eve (the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month), the lively show of killing the New Year pig begins.

Select the best meat, stir-fry or stew it, cook it carefully, pour a glass of wine, and invite friends and family to enjoy the first meal of fresh meat after the pig is slaughtered - soup.

4. "Eating dumplings on the 24th night" is a custom in many places in the south of the Yangtze River, which means family reunion and happiness.

In Suzhou, every year on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, we celebrate the "Little New Year". Making dumplings, giving dumplings, and eating dumplings are must-have New Year dishes.

The most important sacrifice among people in Suzhou is dumplings, which used to be called "Twenty-Four Tuanzi".

"Twenty-four dumplings" are made of glutinous rice flour and filled with fresh meat, bean paste, shredded radish, etc.

Steamed dumplings are all stamped with marks, including round, square, and petal-shaped, to distinguish different fillings.

5. Water chestnuts are indispensable when offering sacrifices to stoves in old Fuzhou. The homophony of water chestnuts in Fuzhou dialect means "good luck extends from the beginning of the year to the end of the year."

6. Tangyuan is known among the people in Huizhou as "sending the Kitchen Lord", also known as "sending the Kitchen Master to heaven", "sacrifice to the Kitchen Lord", etc.

On the day to send off the Kitchen Lord, everyone must burn incense and candles, prepare Yuanxiao, tangerines, carrots, tea, and two sugar cane with tail ends.

Yuanxiao, tangerines, and tea are naturally given to the Kitchen God, and Yuanxiao is a must-have item, which is meant to muzzle the Kitchen God's mouth so that he will not talk nonsense about ordinary people.