1. Northeast: After entering the twelfth lunar month, people in the northeast will kill a pig first and invite villagers to have a meal to celebrate. Then wrap the glued tofu and make it into tofu. Most of the sticky bean bags are made of rhubarb rice, wrapped with bean stuffing, which is made by almost every household and can be eaten for a winter. Eat jiaozi on the first and fifth days of the Lunar New Year.
2. Northwest: When eating jiaozi, the dumpling wrappers are not rolled out one by one, but rolled into a large piece and then buckled with a bowl.
3. South Henan: Eat New Year's Eve until midnight, and then serve a plate of fish when the New Year bell rings to show that the year is not over. On the first morning, jiaozi cooked noodles together, which means money-oriented, which means making a fortune.
4. Shandong area: Shandong is a big province that eats pasta, and people's habit of steaming pasta for the New Year has not changed. Shandong pasta is based on glutinous rice flour, added with wheat flour and water, colored and mixed into different colors, and created various vivid images with hands and simple tools such as knives, scissors, hairpins and pattern molds. Shandong dough sculpture originated in Heze and has a history of more than 300 years.
5. Guangxi: It takes a whole day to make zongzi during the New Year. Zongzi has ingredients such as chestnuts and lotus plums. The cooked zongzi can be hung under the eaves or on the balcony, and it will be cooked thoroughly in water every once in a while, so that it will not go bad for the whole first month.
In addition, there are customs such as eating rice cakes in the south, eating noodles in the morning of Fujian New Year's Day, and cooking noodles in jiaozi, Henan. These traditional Chinese New Year food customs represent different cultural backgrounds and folk customs, and are an important part of China traditional culture.