1. Lettuce: Cantonese people also eat lettuce during the Chinese New Year. Lettuce is a homophone for making money, which means prosperity in the coming year.

2. Dumplings Dumplings are an indispensable food on the New Year's Eve dinner table in the north. Jiao and Jiao are homophonic, which means "Gengsui Jiaozi".

In addition, dumplings are shaped like ingots. Eating dumplings during the Spring Festival means "bringing in wealth." People also wrap coins in dumplings. People who eat the dumplings will have good fortune in the new year.

3. Poached eggs are part of the Spring Festival customs. Some places have the tradition of eating and giving eggs. They are also essential on the New Year’s Eve dinner table and are called “Reunion Eggs”.

Poached eggs should be eaten on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, and the yolk should be eaten first, which means that the new year will be successful and prosperous.

4. Lucky oranges Lucky oranges are a specialty of Fujian. In some areas, lucky oranges are placed and eaten during the Chinese New Year. Oranges are homophonic to "吉", which means "luck" and "lucky", implying good luck and good luck.

5. Eight-treasure rice: Eight-treasure rice is an indispensable food for Shanghainese’s traditional New Year’s Eve dinner, symbolizing reunion, good luck and peace.

6. Taipingyan An indispensable dish for Fuzhou people’s New Year’s Eve dinner is Taipingyan, also known as flat meat swallow.

Fuzhou people must eat Taipingyan during festivals, weddings and funerals, and gatherings of relatives and friends, so there is a saying that "there is no banquet without swallows, and there is no adult without swallows."

7. Overnight meal. In Fujian and southern Fujian, a pot of rice is cooked on New Year's Eve and placed on the dining table until the first day of the first lunar month. It is also called "New Year's meal", which means "more than enough every year."

8. Rice cake. In the early days, people in Suzhou made rice cakes to commemorate Wu Zixu. Later, they gradually became popular all over the country, such as red date rice cake in Shandong, mince rice cake in Beijing, taro rice cake and red/white sugar rice cake in Fujian, and water mill rice cake in Ningbo.

, Suzhou’s sweet-scented osmanthus sugar rice cake, etc.

Rice cakes, which are homophonic to "nian high", are a must-have food during the Spring Festival and place people's expectations of "nian high" on them.

9. Noodles In some areas of Fujian, noodles (mostly thread noodles) are eaten on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, which means "long-lasting".

10. Fish The Spring Festival diet pays attention to good meanings, and of course fish is indispensable. It is usually the last dish on the table. In some places, this dish is basically not eaten, which means "more than enough every year."

And some places are also particular about the choice of fish for New Year's Eve dinner. Silver carp means more than one year after year, crucian carp and carp mean good luck, and salmon means more than wealth.