Eat dumplings, rice cakes, eggs, soup cakes, glutinous rice cakes and other foods on New Year's Day.

1. Dumplings: Dumplings are traditional Chinese food. They are filled with dough and shaped like a half-moon or ingot. The wrapped dumplings can be made into steamed dumplings, fried dumplings or soup dumplings.

Dumplings originated in the Eastern Han Dynasty and were pioneered by the medical sage Zhang Zhongjing.

There is a saying among the people that "dumplings are not as delicious as dumplings".

During the Spring Festival, dumplings have become an indispensable delicacy.

2. Rice cake: Rice cake is a traditional delicacy and New Year food popular in East Asia.

In the early days, rice cakes were used to offer sacrifices to gods and ancestors on New Year's Eve. Later, they gradually became a Lunar New Year food, taking its meaning of "higher every year".

3. Ciba: Ciba is a food made from steamed and pounded glutinous rice. It is a traditional folk food in China.

Ciba has the characteristics of fragrant, sweet and sticky. Its taste is quiet and elegant, sweet and refreshing. It is a food suitable for all ages. It is mainly popular in southern China and a few northern areas.

Whenever there is a happy event, local people will make glutinous rice cakes mixed with brown sugar to entertain guests to show good luck.

New Year's Day: New Year's Day is not a traditional Chinese holiday. Traditional Chinese New Year's Day refers to the first day of the first lunar month.

World Festival New Year's Day, which falls on January 1 of the Gregorian calendar, is commonly known as "New Year" in most countries around the world.

New Year's Day, Yuan, means "beginning", and the beginning of any number is called "Yuan"; Dan means "day"; "New Year's Day" means "the initial day".

New Year's Day is also called "Three Yuan", which is the Yuan of the year, the Yuan of the month, and the Yuan of the hour.

The word "New Year's Day" in Chinese history first appeared in "Book of Jin".

"New Year's Day" in Chinese history refers to the "first day of the first lunar month". The calculation method of "first lunar month" was very inconsistent before the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and the New Year's Day dates in the past dynasties were inconsistent.

Starting from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the first month of the lunar calendar was designated as the "first month", and the first day of January was called New Year's Day, which was still used until the end of the Qing Dynasty.

After the Revolution of 1911, in order to "make Xia Zhengzheng, so it follows the agricultural season, and follow the Western calendar, so it is convenient for statistics", it was decided to use the Gregorian calendar in the first year of the Republic of China (actually used in 1912), and stipulated January 1 of the Gregorian calendar as the "New Year", but it was not

It's not called "New Year's Day".

In 1949, the People's Republic of China adopted January 1st of the Gregorian calendar as New Year's Day. Therefore, "New Year's Day" is also called "Gregorian Year", "New Calendar Year" or "Gregorian Calendar Year" in China.