First, eat jiaozi.
Jiaozi is an indispensable food for northerners on New Year's Eve, and jiaozi is shaped like an ingot. Eating jiaozi during the Spring Festival means "making money into treasure". On New Year's Eve, the whole family rolled dough and wrapped jiaozi. Jiaozi wrapped it and left it till midnight. At this time, it's New Year's Eve and Spring Festival. "jiaozi" has the homonym of "making friends". Eating jiaozi means "making friends when you are young", which means "Happy New Year".
Second, eat rice cakes.
In many southern areas, rice cakes are a must-have food for the Spring Festival, as important as jiaozi in the north. The meaning of rice cakes and "rising year by year" rice cakes are generally made of glutinous rice or rice, which tastes sweet and glutinous. There are many kinds of rice cakes, which can be made into original flavor, brown sugar, red dates, honey beans and so on.
Third, eat jiaozi.
Tangyuan is also one of the important foods in the Spring Festival. It is eaten on the fifteenth day of the first month in the north and on New Year's Eve in many places in the south. There are glutinous rice dumplings or yellow rice dumplings filled with black sesame seeds and peanuts. It tastes sweet and delicious. The shape of dumplings is round, which means that the whole family is "round and round" together.
Fourth, eat spring rolls.
Generally speaking, we eat spring cakes in beginning of spring and spring rolls on New Year's Eve. The fried spring rolls are crispy outside and tender inside, and they taste fragrant but not greasy. Spring rolls are similar to jiaozi. All kinds of fillings are wrapped in dough, which is rich in nutrition and symbolizes "Spring returns to the earth and everything revives". Everything is a brand-new beginning.
Five, eat noodles
People in the northwest like to eat noodles, which has a long and lasting significance during the Chinese New Year. In many places, noodles are eaten on the seventh, seventeenth and twenty-seventh day of the first month. In some places, people eat noodles on New Year's Eve, which means that the whole family lives a long and healthy life.