New Year's food includes preserved meat, jiaozi, rice cakes, glutinous rice balls, spring cakes, etc. Among them, preserved meat is a must-have food in southern China, including sausages, preserved fish and bacon. jiaozi has always been one of the representative New Year's food, and it has a long history. In addition, New Year's cakes have the meaning of rising year by year and are deeply loved by the broad masses of people.

jiaozi: On the dinner table in the north, jiaozi is a big feast food that no delicacies can replace. Jiaozi, also known as Jiao Er and Jiao Zi, means the alternation of old and new. Eat jiaozi on New Year's Eve, which means "making friends at a younger age". In addition, jiaozi looks like an ingot. Eating jiaozi during the New Year also means "making a fortune".

rice cakes: Eating rice cakes during the Spring Festival is a custom in many places, such as red/white rice cakes in Fujian, Shuimo rice cakes in Ningbo, osmanthus sugar rice cakes in Suzhou, Baiguo rice cakes in Beijing and sticky rice cakes in the north. Because rice cakes are also called "Niannian cakes", which is homophonic with "getting taller every year", eating rice cakes means that people's work and life are getting higher every year.

Tangyuan: In southern China, there is a custom of eating Tangyuan during the Spring Festival. The "round" of glutinous rice balls means "reunion" and "perfection", which symbolizes family harmony and sweet life.

Chinese New Year custom

Chinese New Year has a long history, and some relatively fixed customs have been formed in the process of inheritance and development, many of which have been handed down to this day, such as buying new year's goods, sweeping dust, posting couplets, celebrating New Year's Eve, celebrating New Year's Eve, dancing dragons and lions, worshipping gods and ancestors, praying for disasters, setting off firecrackers, setting off fireworks, swimming in spirits, betting on boats, temple fairs, and playing gongs and lanterns.

On New Year's Eve, the whole family get together and have a "reunion dinner". The elders distribute "lucky money" to the children, and then "keep watch" to welcome the new year. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, people get up early, put on the most beautiful clothes, dress up neatly and go out to wish the New Year great luck.

On the first day of the first month, the theme of greeting the New Year, offering sacrifices to gods and praying for a good harvest begins. At the turn of the New Year's Day, all kinds of activities to celebrate the New Year, such as firecrackers ringing, fireworks shining on the sky, saying goodbye to the old year and welcoming the new year, reached a climax. On the morning of the Spring Festival, firecrackers are set off first, which is called "opening firecrackers" to send the old and welcome the new. After the sound of firecrackers, the ground is full of broken red, which is called "full house red" On the first day of the first month, we worship the new year and welcome the new year.