1, rice cake. Eating rice cakes during the Spring Festival, "I would rather take the year than the year, so as to pray for the year." It 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.

2. jiaozi. There is a tradition of eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve in the north, but the custom of eating jiaozi varies from place to place. Some places eat jiaozi on New Year's Eve, some places eat jiaozi on New Year's Day, and some mountainous areas in the north also have the custom of eating jiaozi every morning from the first day to the fifth day. Eating jiaozi is a unique way for people to express their wish for good luck when they bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year.

3. Lantern Festival. In the south, it is called "Tangyuan". In Jiangsu, Shanghai and other places, people are used to eating glutinous rice balls on the morning of New Year's Day. Lantern Festival is called "Shangyuan Festival" by Taoism. According to The Story of Yi Tu's Real Ring in the Yuan Dynasty, you were ill after the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon's death. On the fourteenth day of the first month, a boy suddenly asked for an audience, claiming to be the messenger of Chang 'e, and said, "Madam knows what you are thinking, and there is no way to come down. Tomorrow is the full moon, so you should make a pill out of rice flour, put it in the northwest of the room, call it Mrs.' s name, and you can come down in three nights. " You followed the law, and Chang 'e really came. It can be seen that eating Lantern Festival means "reunion as the moon".