Shandong, Beijing: There is a dish in Shandong called "Chinese New Year dish", which is stewed with pig blood, tofu, pork, cabbage and vermicelli, giving people a very rich feeling. During the Spring Festival in Beijing, every household will always keep honey supply and food such as sachma for their own people to eat when chatting, and then they can entertain visiting guests.
Southern China:
In the south, especially in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, we must spend all our money on New Year's Eve to create the most sumptuous banquet. It is normal for a meal to have more than 20 dishes such as cold dishes, stir-fried dishes, fresh soup, snacks, melons and fruits.
Shanghainese are used to eating shellfish such as leeches, sea melon seeds and yellow snails during the New Year. Especially bloodsuckers, old Shanghainese make south milk bloodsuckers into cold dishes every year. There are also some dishes with festive names or appearances, such as Sixi baked bran, collapsed vegetables, winter bamboo shoots and egg dumplings, which are also very popular with everyone.
Suzhou, which has a strong literary atmosphere, eats wishful and happy dishes in the New Year. In fact, ruyi dish is mixed with soybean sprouts, and Anle dish is purslane.
Guangdong has the richest and most exquisite diet. The ingredients for Chinese New Year include chicken, fish, oyster sauce, lettuce, yuba and garlic. In addition, there are fried oil angle, fried piles and fried rice cakes with red bean stuffing and glutinous rice skin. Taro cakes, sugar lotus seeds, fried rice noodles, sesame cakes, peanut cakes and other snack fruits.
Zhuang people in Guangxi make zongzi in the New Year. They want to make a zongzi cake that is more than one foot long and weighs five kilograms.
Many ethnic minorities also have their own customs of "Nianwei". For example: Dong people eat carp; Wa people eat dumplings, sugar cane and bananas; Qiang people use flour to make the shape of cattle, sheep and chickens for frying; Tujia people eat meat and vegetables; Gaoshan people in Taiwan Province Province eat long-term vegetables (mustard greens) and vermicelli.
Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam: Among the places where overseas Chinese gather, Nanyang has the best annual flavor. When Chinese in Singapore and Malaysia celebrate the New Year, people will make sweet rice cakes with glutinous rice and brown sugar for visiting guests. Fishing for raw fish at dinner is very popular. Sashimi is shredded with all kinds of vegetables and served with sauce. When they catch delicious food, they will raise chopsticks and shout "catch it" at the same time. As one of the few countries in the world that use the lunar calendar, Vietnam's New Year's Eve dinner is also the most important meal in a year, and the food it eats is very similar to that in Guangxi. The most important thing in the reunion dinner is glutinous rice zongzi, which contains pork, big oil and mung bean paste.
South Korea and Japan: The annual flavor of Korean Spring Festival is also called "New Year's Eve". The most representative is "rice cake slice soup", which is the confluence of traditional soup and rice cake. Every household will also prepare candied fruit, sweet-scented osmanthus soup, eight-treasure rice, sliced meat and other foods to receive relatives and friends who come to visit the New Year.