The Chinese New Year customs of the Han nationality are generally based on eating rice cakes, jiaozi, Ciba, glutinous rice balls, poached eggs, meatballs, whole fish, wine, tangerines, apples, peanuts, melon seeds, sweets, fragrant teas and Yaozhuan. Accompanied by many activities, such as dusting dust, washing bedding, preparing new year's goods, pasting Spring Festival couplets, pasting New Year's pictures, pasting paper-cuts, stick grilles, pasting blessings, lighting candles, setting off firecrackers, observing the New Year, giving lucky money, visiting relatives, visiting the flower market, making social fires and so on, it is extremely enjoyable. People in China have the habit of hanging Chinese knots during the Spring Festival. Before the Lunar New Year's Eve, people in Tianjin had the custom of inviting Chinese knots to Qiao Xiangge, an ancient cultural street, to take Qiao Xiang as a blessing.

Northern areas like to eat jiaozi during the Spring Festival, which means reunion, good luck and farewell to the old and welcome in the new. In order to increase the atmosphere and fun of the festival, people in the past dynasties have put a lot of effort into stuffing dumplings. People wrap money in jiaozi, and whoever eats it will make a fortune in the coming year. Wrap honey in jiaozi, and whoever eats it means that life will be sweet in the coming year and so on.

When the children are playing and setting off firecrackers, it is also the busiest time for housewives in the kitchen. The New Year's food has been cooked a few days ago, and the New Year's Eve dinner is always cooked by the chef on the 31th. In the north, jiaozi on the first day of the Lunar New Year will also be packed out on the 31th night. At this time, everyone's chopping boards are busy chopping meat and vegetables. At this time, the sound of chopping boards from every household, firecrackers from streets and alleys, abacus and accounting from small shops, and laughter everywhere, one after another, resounding, interwoven into a cheerful movement on New Year's Eve.

Eating New Year's Eve is the most lively and enjoyable time for every household in the Spring Festival. On New Year's Eve, a table was filled with rich new year's dishes, and the whole family was reunited, sitting around the table, and having a family reunion dinner, the sense of fulfillment in my heart was really unspeakable. People not only enjoy the delicious food on the table, but also enjoy the happy atmosphere. There are big dishes, cold dishes, hot fried dishes and snacks on the table. Generally, two things are indispensable, one is hot pot, and the other is fish. The hot pot is boiling, steaming, warm and sultry, indicating that it is booming; "Fish" and "Yu" are homophonic, which symbolizes "more than good luck and celebration" and also means "more than every year". There are also radishes, commonly known as vegetable heads, wishing you good luck; Lobster, fried fish and other fried foods, I wish my family prosperity, such as "cooking oil with fire." Finally, I will have a dessert, wishing the days to come to be sweet and sweet. On this day, even if I can't drink, I will drink a little.

There are many kinds of New Year's Eve dinners, which are different in north and south, including jiaozi, wonton, long noodles, Yuanxiao, etc., and each has its own emphasis. Northerners are used to eating jiaozi during the Spring Festival, which means "making friends at a younger age". And because the white-flour jiaozi is shaped like a silver ingot, a pot of pots on the table symbolizes the meaning of "making a fortune in the New Year, and the ingot rolls in". Some wrapped jiaozi, but also wrapped a few coins sterilized by boiling water, saying that whoever ate first would make more money. The custom of eating jiaozi was handed down from the Han Dynasty. According to legend, Zhang Zhongjing, a medical saint, saw that the poor people's ears were frozen rotten in the cold winter, so he made a kind of "Quhan Jiaoer soup" to treat frostbite for the poor people. He used mutton, peppers and some herbs to dispel the cold and warm, and made ear-like "jiao-er" with a flour bag, cooked it in a pot and distributed it to the poor. After eating it, people felt warm all over and their ears were hot. Since then, people have followed suit, which has been passed down to today. Eating wonton in the new year is based on its original meaning. Legend has it that the world was in a chaotic state before it was created, and Pangu created the universe with four sides and long faces, also called longevity noodles. Eating noodles in the new year is to wish you a long life.

in the north, some families also provide a pot of rice, which was cooked before the New Year. It is called "New Year's Rice", which means that there are leftovers all year round, and this year they still eat the grain of the previous year. This bowl of New Year's rice is usually cooked by mixing rice and millet. As the saying goes in Beijing, it is called "two-meter rice" because it is yellow and white. This is called "golden rice with gold and silver, full of gold and silver". In many places, cakes, melons and fruits prepared at the time of observing the old age are intended to win a lucky charm: eating dates (spring comes early), persimmon (everything goes well), almond (happy people), longevity fruit (immortality) and rice cakes (higher every year). On New Year's Eve, the whole family ate and enjoyed themselves, talking and laughing.