The traditional food in the Spring Festival is different in different regions.

For example, jiaozi is a big feast food that can't be replaced by any delicacies. Jiaozi, also known as Jiao Er and Jiao Zi, means the alternation of old and new. Eat jiaozi on New Year's Eve, which means "making friends at a younger age". In addition, jiaozi looks like an ingot. Eating jiaozi during the New Year also means "making a fortune".

For example, eating rice cakes during the Spring Festival is a custom in many places, such as red/white rice cakes in Fujian, Shuimo rice cakes in Ningbo, osmanthus sugar rice cakes in Suzhou, Baiguo rice cakes in Beijing and sticky rice cakes in the north. Because rice cakes are also called "Niannian cakes", which is homophonic with "getting taller every year", eating rice cakes means that people's work and life are getting higher every year.

There is also a dish that people all over the country will eat, and it is also the least dish on the table during the Spring Festival, because fish, like "surplus", represents "surplus" and means "surplus every year". There are many things to pay attention to when eating fish in the New Year. Fish should be the last dish on the New Year's Eve, and it can't be finished, which symbolizes that there is "surplus" every year. In other places, fish heads and tails should be kept until the first day of the lunar new year, which means that there is a "surplus" from beginning to end of the year.