jiaozi

jiaozi is an essential food at the dinner table of the Northern New Year's Eve. Dumplings are homophonic, which means "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.

jiaozi cooked noodles

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

rice cakes

In the early days, people in Suzhou made rice cakes to commemorate Wu Zixu during the Chinese New Year, 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".

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".

Fish

During the Spring Festival, the 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, which means "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.

wonton

In Jingjiang, Jiangsu Province, 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 wrap 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.

Tangyuan

Tangyuan should be eaten for breakfast on the first day of the New Year 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.

Chicken

"No chicken, no feast" is the mantra of Guangdong people. You must eat chicken in Guangdong and Hong Kong during the New Year. Chicken sounds similar to auspicious, 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".

Baba

Tujia people in Xiangxi, Hunan province have a saying "28, 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.

Zongzi

The 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 they must eat Zongzi when guests come to the first and second days of the year.

Lettuce

Cantonese people still eat lettuce during the Spring Festival, which is homophonic with making money, meaning prosperity and wealth in the coming year.

Poached eggs

In the custom of Spring Festival, some places have the tradition of eating and delivering eggs, which is also essential on the dinner table of New Year's Eve, and it is called "reunion eggs". Eat poached eggs in the morning of the New Year's Day, and eat the yolk first, which means that the new year will be full of prosperity.

Fuju

Fuju is a specialty of Fujian. In some areas, Fuju should be displayed and eaten during the Spring Festival. Tangju is homophonic with "Ji", which means "Fu" and "Ji", which means good luck and good luck, and attracts Fonagy.

Eight-treasure rice

Eight-treasure rice is an essential food for Shanghai people's traditional New Year's Eve dinner, which symbolizes reunion, auspiciousness and peace.

Taiping Yan

An indispensable dish in Fuzhou's New Year's Eve dinner is Taiping Yan, also known as flat-fleshed Yan. Fuzhou people must eat Taiping Yan on holidays, weddings, funerals and celebrations, and when relatives and friends get together. Therefore, there is a saying that "nothing can be done without a swallow, and nothing can be done without a swallow".

Overnight Meal

On New Year's Eve in Minnan, Fujian, a pot of rice should be cooked and put on the dining table until the first day of the first month, which is also called "New Year's Dinner", which means "more than enough every year".

Extended information:

The Spring Festival is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation and the most important festival in the whole year. Spring Festival is the first day of the first lunar month, also known as the lunar year, commonly known as "Chinese New Year". In the historical development and inheritance, some relatively fixed customs and habits have been formed, and many of them have been passed down to this day, such as sweeping dust, posting Spring Festival couplets, worshipping ancestors, worshiping the New Year, lighting firecrackers, and paying New Year greetings.

There is a folk saying in China that every household will set off firecrackers when the new year comes. On the first day of the new year, people get up early, put on the most beautiful clothes, dress up neatly, go out to visit relatives and friends, and wish good luck in the coming year.

Spring Festival is the most solemn and lively traditional festival among the people in China. The Spring Festival evolved from the activities of offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors at the beginning of the year in ancient times. Although there was a custom of celebrating the New Year in ancient China, it was not called the Spring Festival at that time. In ancient times, the Spring Festival once referred to beginning of spring in the twenty-four solar terms, and later it was changed to the first day of the first lunar month, which was regarded as the beginning of the lunar year, that is, the beginning of the year.

According to legend, Nian animals are afraid of red, fire and explosion, and they haunt on the first day of the New Year. Therefore, on the first day of New Year's Day, people pay New Year greetings, put up Spring Festival couplets, hang New Year pictures, stick grilles, set off firecrackers, give out red envelopes, wear new clothes, eat jiaozi, watch the New Year, dance with lions and dragons, hang lanterns and kowtow.