Traditional delicacies for Xiaonian children include sugar melons, rice cakes, yellow rice sticky cakes, dumplings, glutinous rice balls, etc.

1. Tanggua: "Twenty-three, Tanggua is sticky". It turns out that the new year is as sweet as Tanggua.

2. Rice cakes: In many areas of Guangxi, rice cakes are eaten on Xiaonian Day. It means reunion.

3. Yellow rice sticky cake: Sticky cake is also a traditional food in Shandong. Making sticky cake on this day means to stick the Stove Lord’s mouth so that he will not say bad things after he returns. Only send good words up.

4. Dumplings: In many areas in the north, dumplings are eaten during the Lunar New Year. After cooking the dumplings, first offer them to the Lord Stove, which means "send off the dumplings and welcome the wind noodles". Eating dumplings means that the new year will be smoother, more complete, and more peaceful.

5. Tangyuan: If northerners eat dumplings during the Chinese New Year, then southerners are accustomed to eating glutinous rice balls, and there is also a folk saying that "eating glutinous rice balls makes you one year older", which also means that this little year will make you one year older. The year is the beginning of the new year. The round and smooth glutinous rice balls also symbolize the reunion of the family; and most of the fillings of the glutinous rice balls are sesame or peanut fillings, which represent the sweetness of rising through the ranks.