Due to different cultural customs in different places, the food eaten on New Year's Day will also be different.

Foods commonly eaten on New Year's Day include rice cakes, which symbolize a higher harvest in the new year; glutinous rice balls, which symbolize family reunion; dumplings, which are eaten more in the north; fish,

The implication is that we hope to have more than enough every year.

New Year's Day is also called Yuanri, Yuanzheng, Yuanchen, Kainian, Yuanchun, Shangri, Huasui and so on.

China’s traditional New Year’s Day actually refers to the first day of the first lunar month, while the world festival New Year’s Day refers to January 1 of the Gregorian calendar.

The word New Year's Day first appeared in the "Book of Jin" in China, and its meaning is a new beginning.