That is, wonton is called "Yuanbao soup" because it looks like Yuanbao. Eating wonton is to turn money into treasure, which symbolizes that financial resources are rolling in like soup. Generally, pork, spinach and leek are used as stuffing, or mutton and cabbage are used as stuffing. In the north, the god of wealth is sacrificed on the second day of the first month, and Yuanbao soup is drunk at noon that day.

Second, eat rice cakes.

Eating rice cakes in the Spring Festival means getting better every year, so as to pray for the new year, which means that everything goes well every year. The types of rice cakes are: white rice cakes and yellow rice cakes in the north; There are water mill rice cakes in Jiangnan; There is glutinous rice in the southwest; There are red turtle cakes in Taiwan Province province.

Third, eat New Year's Eve dinner.

It is a custom in the south of the Yangtze River to prepare the New Year's dinner in advance, put it in a bamboo basket, put fruits such as red orange, Wuling, water chestnut and gold ingot cake on it, and insert pine and cypress branches, which is called "New Year's dinner". Northerners' New Year's Eve dinner is made of gold, silver and rice (yellow rice and white rice). The dinner was decorated with dates, chestnuts, longan and fragrant branches, with pine and cypress branches inserted.

Fourth, eat Tu Su wine?

It is said that it was created by Hua Tuo, a famous doctor at the end of Han Dynasty. It is made by soaking rhubarb, atractylodes macrocephala, cassia twig, ledebouriella root, prickly ash, aconite root, etc. It has the effects of warming and nourishing yang, expelling wind and cold, and avoiding epidemic diseases. Later, it was spread by Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in Tang Dynasty. Tu Su means to kill something congenial and awaken people's souls. Drinking Tu Su is also a custom in China New Year. It is said that drinking this wine on the morning of the first day of the first month can keep you from getting sick for a year.

Five, eat jiaozi.

After the mid-Ming Dynasty, jiaozi gradually became a traditional food for the Spring Festival in the north. Because jiaozi is shaped like an ingot, it means "turning money into treasure". During the Spring Festival, jiaozi pays attention to eating his bags at twelve o'clock on New Year's Eve. At this moment, it is the beginning of another year, in order to take the meaning of "making friends young".