There are many kinds of dumplings. You can make them yourself at home or buy them in the supermarket for quick freezing. In the supermarket, there are many kinds of dumplings, big and small, sweet and salty, but during the Spring Festival, most of them are filled with sugar. It is also a good choice to make dumplings at home. There are many ways to make dumplings, and they are relatively simple. You can make them at home by buying glutinous rice flour, sesame stuffing and sugar. The breakfast dumplings on the first day of the New Year's Day must have more special significance. Its meaning is: everything goes well and the whole family is happy.

New Year's cakes

It is also a custom of Shaoxing people to eat New Year's cakes to wish a "high year after year" life. There are many ways to eat New Year's cakes, such as sugar ones, soup ones, fried ones, etc., but it means "high year after year" in homonym, which means getting better every year.

Zongzi

Shaoxing people are used to wrapping Zongzi during the Spring Festival. Shaoxing people generally use bamboo leaves (also called Zongzi leaves), which also have a fragrant smell after cooking. Zongzi wrapped in zongzi leaves has a strong fragrance and is pleasant to eat. In addition to rice dumplings wrapped in pure glutinous rice and bean dumplings with cowpeas or red beans added to glutinous rice, there are many delicious fresh meat egg yolk dumplings and chestnut dumplings. Eating zongzi on New Year's Day means that life is sweet and the grain is plentiful.

jiaozi

It is the custom of northerners to eat jiaozi on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, but now many Shaoxing people have joined in eating jiaozi. Eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve means "having good luck in the coming year", while eating jiaozi on New Year's Day means having good luck in the coming year.

Noodles

Long noodles, also known as longevity noodles, are eaten on the first day of the New Year's Day, wishing you a hundred years of life. Many elderly people still maintain this custom.

sugar tea

In Shaoxing, when you visit relatives and friends during the Spring Festival, the host will always make you a cup of sugar tea as soon as you enter the door, and don't forget to put two dates in the sugar tea, which means sweet and sweet.