After the mid-Ming Dynasty, jiaozi gradually became a traditional food for the Spring Festival in the north. Because jiaozi is shaped like an ingot, it means "making money into treasure". During the Spring Festival, jiaozi pays attention to finishing the package at twelve o'clock on New Year's Eve. At this moment, it is the beginning of the year, in order to take the meaning of "making friends at a young age".

Step 2 eat rice cakes

Eating rice cakes in the Spring Festival means getting better every year, so as to pray for the new year, which means that everything goes well every year. The types of rice cakes are: white rice cakes and yellow rice cakes in the north; There are water mill rice cakes in Jiangnan; There is glutinous rice in the southwest; There are red turtle cakes in Taiwan Province Province.

Step 3 post Spring Festival couplets

The name Spring Festival couplets was formally born in the Ming Dynasty. After Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, made Jinling his capital, he issued a decree on New Year's Eve, requiring officials, officials and scholars to write several couplets in their homes to celebrate the New Year. Since then, Spring Festival couplets have become popular, and every household has to post Spring Festival couplets during the Chinese New Year.