Dumplings are a delicacy that cannot be replaced by any delicacy on the New Year’s Eve dinner table in the north.

Dumplings, also known as Jiaoer and Jiaozi, mean the alternation of old and new.

On New Year's Eve, people stay up late and eat dumplings, which means "New Year's Eve".

In addition, dumplings look like ingots, so eating dumplings during the Chinese New Year also means "bringing in wealth".

Eating rice cakes during the Spring Festival is a custom in many places, such as red/white rice cakes in Fujian, water mill rice cakes in Ningbo, osmanthus sugar rice cakes in Suzhou, mince rice cakes in Beijing, sticky rice cakes in the north, etc.

Because rice cakes are also called "nian rice cakes", which are homophonic with "every year is high", eating rice cakes means that people's work and life are getting better year by year.

Eight-treasure rice: Eight-treasure rice is a dish made with exquisite ingredients, complicated craftsmanship, generous portion, and high sweetness. It is suitable for the whole family to share and enjoy, symbolizing reunion.

According to folklore experts, the lotus seeds in the eight-treasure rice symbolize marriage harmony, the longan symbolizes reunion, the kumquats symbolize good luck, the red dates symbolize early birth of a child, the honey winter melon and honey cherries symbolize the sweetness of life, the barley seeds symbolize longevity, and the melon seeds symbolize peace and safety.

From this point of view, eight-treasure rice is like a cornucopia, which means that the new year will bring abundant wealth.

Fish The last thing on the Spring Festival dinner table is fish, because fish is the same as "surplus", which means "surplus" and "more than enough every year."

There are many things to pay attention to when eating fish during the New Year. Fish should be the last dish on the New Year’s Eve dinner and cannot be finished, which symbolizes that there is “surplus” every year.

In some places, fish heads and tails are left to be eaten on the first day of the Lunar New Year, which means there will be plenty of "surplus" from beginning to end of the year.

Chicken and "auspicious" are homophonic, and there is a saying in Guangdong that "there is no feast without chicken". Chicken is an indispensable delicacy for Cantonese people during the New Year.

People eat chicken to pray for good luck and prosperity in the coming year.

Glutinous Rice Balls In southern my country, there is a custom of eating glutinous rice balls during the Spring Festival.

The "yuan" of glutinous rice balls means "reunion" and "completeness", symbolizing family harmony and sweet life.

Tangyuan glutinous rice cake "making glutinous rice cake to celebrate the New Year" is particularly popular in western Hunan.

Ciba is made of glutinous rice and is very sticky. Eating glutinous rice during the New Year can "stick" family members together, symbolizing people's reunion in the New Year.