On the first day of the first lunar month, during the Spring Festival, every household in all parts of the country will celebrate the New Year, and diet is an important part of it.

about ten days before the festival, people began to be busy shopping for new year's goods, such as chicken, duck, fish, tea, wine and oil sauce, roasted seeds and nuts in the north and south, and fruit with sugar bait. It is a custom in the south of the Yangtze River to prepare New Year's rice in advance before the New Year's Eve, and put it in bamboo baskets, with fruits such as tangerine, Wuling, water chestnuts and gold ingot cakes on it, and insert pine and cypress branches, which is called "New Year's rice".

New Year's dinner in northern China is made of golden, silver and white rice, decorated with dates, chestnuts, longan and fragrant branches, and inserted with pine and cypress branches. Northerners eat jiaozi in the Spring Festival. Some in jiaozi put sugar in their bellies, with the intention of eating sweet New Year's Day; Some people put peanuts (called longevity fruit) in their stomachs, with the intention that people can live longer after eating them; There is a jiaozi full of money, the intention is that whoever eats it will be "prosperous". Jiaozi is shaped like an ingot. In the New Year, the inner strips are cooked with jiaozi, which is called "Gold thread penetrates the ingot".

Chinese New Year's food should be in auspicious terms. People in the south of the Yangtze River make tea for guests in the New Year, and put two olives in the tea tray or bowl cover, which is called "treasure-free tea". When eating in the New Year, there must be stir-fried vegetables, saying that eating "kissing is hot"; Must eat bean sprouts, because soybean sprouts are shaped like "ruyi"; You must eat fish heads at every meal, but you can't eat them all, which is called "leftover fish".

you must eat rice cakes in the new year, and the north and south share the same wind. Eat rice cakes to wish life "high year after year". Sweet-scented osmanthus sugar rice cakes in Suzhou, Shuimo rice cakes in Ningbo, jujube rice cakes and Baiguo rice cakes in Beijing are all good cakes for the New Year.