1. Cured meat: Bacon, sausage, and cured fish are must-have Spring Festival delicacies for every household in some areas of the south.

Spicy Sichuan-style sausage, slightly sweet Cantonese-style sausage, brightly colored Xiangxi bacon, and Jinhua ham are all very popular traditional folk delicacies.

2. Dumplings: Dumplings are a must-eat food for northerners during the New Year. Because they resemble ingots, they are given the meaning of "bringing in wealth". People also wrap auspicious coins, candies, dates, peanuts, etc. in the fillings.

Eating coins symbolizes wealth in the new year, eating candies means a sweeter life in the coming year, and eating peanuts means health and longevity.

3. Tangyuan: The standard Chinese New Year dish in the South is glutinous rice balls.

In Shanghai, Jiangsu and other places, glutinous rice balls are eaten for breakfast on the first day of the first lunar month, which symbolizes a happy reunion.

4. Rice cake: Soft and chewy, rice cake is also a must-have food for the Spring Festival in the South.

In addition to the deliciousness of rice cakes, eating rice cakes during the Spring Festival is also good for its good fortune. The cake is the same as "gao", which means that the days are rising year by year.

5. Spring cakes: Spring cakes, also known as spring rolls, are pancakes made of flour.

When eating spring pancakes, it is important to wrap them with vegetables and eat them from beginning to end, which means "from beginning to end" and represents auspiciousness.