Besides eating jiaozi, northerners also eat grinding bean curd, pork-killing dishes, jujube cakes, sticky bean bags and fish.

1. grinding bean curd

Tofu is an important raw material for processing dishes during the Spring Festival in the north. Tofu is needed for frying tofu, tofu boxes and making tofu cocoons.

2. Kill pig dishes

Although there are few New Year features in Northeast China, chicken, fish and pork are required on the table. In the old days, pigs were killed in Northeast China to celebrate the Chinese New Year. All parts of pigs were made into delicious food, and the pig-killing dish became a Chinese New Year dish.

The so-called "pork-killing dish" takes frozen fat pork as the main raw material, and is stewed with pickled cabbage and blood sausage. It is delicious and warm when served hot on New Year's Eve! Nowadays, Northeasters have long been reluctant to cook at home during the New Year, let alone just eat Northeast dishes, but they still maintain the bold style of "big fish and big meat" as always.

3. Jujube Flower Cake

This is a delicious food to be prepared by every household. This jujube steamed bread is to be served on the table on New Year's Day. On the first day of New Year's Day, all the deceased old people are invited home for the New Year. jiaozi and jujube steamed bread need to be given to them first. But they are all customs and habits, showing filial piety.

4. Sticky bean bags

Sticky bean bags are very common in many places in the north. In the past, when hunting and chopping wood outdoors, you would carry sticky bean bags with you, because it is easy to carry and has a long shelf life. At New Year's Eve, sticky bean bags are essential, which can be eaten with white sugar or fried.

5. Fish

The Spring Festival diet pays attention to good meanings, and of course fish is indispensable. Fish is usually the last dish on the table. In some places, this dish is basically left untouched, meaning "more than one year". Fish is a kind of food that we often eat in our life. Fish in the Spring Festival is also particular about the choice of fish types. Different kinds of fish represent different meanings.