1. Every Spring Festival, especially in the north, jiaozi is an indispensable delicacy on the dinner table.

Generally, jiaozi should be wrapped before 12 o'clock on New Year's Eve and eaten at midnight, because this is the beginning of the first day of the first lunar month, and "Zi" means "Zi Shi" and "Jiao" is homophonic with "Jiao". Eating jiaozi means "making friends at a younger age", which means "Happy reunion" at the moment when the new year and the old year intersect.

2. Eating glutinous rice balls in the Spring Festival means that the family will be happy and round in the new year.

On New Year's Day in Sichuan, we should eat glutinous rice balls for breakfast, which are called "Yuanbao" and "Deyuanbao". People in Yangzhou will eat Sixi Tangyuan on the first day of the New Year, which means all the best and family reunion.

3. New Year's Cake

New Year's Cake was first used as a sacrifice to ancestors and gods, and then it gradually became a traditional food during the Spring Festival. Eating rice cakes in the Spring Festival mostly appears in the south, mostly in red, yellow and white, which embodies the good wishes of a rich grain and a rich life.

4. Spring rolls

In some areas in the south, jiaozi is not eaten during the Spring Festival, but spring rolls are eaten. In ancient beginning of spring, the daily bread was very thin, also called pancake. Eat with several kinds of lettuce, called "spring plate". Every year on beginning of spring Day, we eat spring cakes, which are called "biting spring".

5. Eight-treasure rice

Eight-treasure rice is an essential food for Shanghai people's traditional New Year's Eve dinner, which symbolizes reunion, auspiciousness and peace. Fuzhou people must eat Taiping Yan on holidays, weddings and funerals, and gatherings of relatives and friends, also known as flat meat Yan. The so-called "no banquet without Yan, no year without Yan".

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