1. jiaozi

jiaozi is an indispensable food at the dinner table in the north, and dumplings are homophonic, meaning "making friends at a younger age". In addition, jiaozi looks like an ingot. Eating jiaozi during the Spring Festival means "making money into treasure". People will also wrap coins in jiaozi, so people who eat this jiaozi will have good fortune in the new year.

2. Boiled noodles in jiaozi

Many places in Henan will eat boiled noodles in jiaozi on the morning of the New Year's Day, which is called "Golden thread piercing the gold ingot". On New Year's Eve, jiaozi cooked and fished for food, which was called "fishing for gold ingots".

3. New Year's cakes

In early Suzhou, people always made new year's cakes to commemorate Wu Zixu, and later they gradually became popular all over the country, such as red dates in Shandong, baiguo rice cakes in Beijing, taro rice cakes and red/white sugar rice cakes in Fujian, Shuimo rice cakes in Ningbo and osmanthus sugar rice cakes in Suzhou. The homophonic "Niangao" of rice cakes is a necessary food for the Spring Festival, which places people's expectation of "Niangao".

4. Noodles

In some areas of Fujian, noodles (mostly noodles) are eaten on the morning of the first day of the new year, which means "a long time".

5. Fish

The Spring Festival diet pays attention to good meanings. Of course, fish is indispensable. It is usually the last dish on the table. In some places, this dish is basically left behind, meaning "more than one year". And some places are also particular about choosing the fish in the New Year's Eve dinner. Silver carp is more than one year, crucian carp and carp are prosperous, and salmon is more than wealth.

6. Wonton

In Jingjiang, Jiangsu, you must eat wonton whether you are entertaining guests, celebrating holidays or holding happy events. On the morning of New Year's Eve, every household began to chop vegetables and stuff wonton, and they ate it from the 3th to the 15th of the first month. "Wonton is wine, and the more you eat it, the more you have it", which pinned Jingjiang people's good wishes for the new year.

7. Tangyuan

Tangyuan should be eaten for breakfast on New Year's Day in Sichuan. On this day, Tangyuan is called "Yuanbao", and eating Tangyuan is called "DeYuanbao", which means reunion, perfection and sweetness. Yangzhou people want to eat Sixi Tangyuan on the first day of the New Year, which means all the best and family reunion. Shanghainese also eat glutinous rice balls for breakfast on the first day of the New Year, which means that they are full, rich and powerful.

8. Chicken

"No feast without chicken" is the mantra of Cantonese people. You must eat chicken in Guangdong and Hong Kong during the New Year. Chicken sounds similar to Kyrgyzstan, which means good luck and good luck in life. Hubei people want to drink chicken soup for the New Year, which symbolizes the peace of Qingtai. Chicken wings mean flying high, chicken feet mean "grasping wealth in the New Year", and eating chicken bones means "getting ahead".

9. Baba

Tujia people in Xiangxi, Hunan Province have a saying of "28, hitting Baba". On the twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month, Tujia people always make glutinous rice cakes, and Hakka people also have the habit of eating cakes on holidays.

1. Zongzi

Zhuang people in Guangxi have the custom of eating Zongzi during the Spring Festival. Every year, a few days before the Spring Festival, Zhuang family members have to wrap or buy Zongzi, and guests must eat Zongzi on the first and second days.

11. Lettuce

Cantonese people still eat lettuce during the New Year, which is homophonic with making money, implying prosperity and wealth in the coming year.