1. Food: (1) Dumplings As the saying goes, "delicious dumplings are not enough," and in the blood of northerners, "dumplings" are the "arteries" that run wild.

Dumplings have many auspicious meanings. Dumplings symbolize reunion and celebration; they also represent saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new; in addition, dumplings are similar to the "ingots" cast from gold and silver coins in ancient China. Eating dumplings has the meaning of "rolling in wealth".

The warm family atmosphere of a family sitting together eating dumplings and chatting is the most important reason why people still cherish dumplings today.

(2) Youjiaojiao is one of the home-cooked snacks in Guangzhou. The tastes vary from place to place and the raw materials used are also different. Some are sweet and some are vegetable. The method is basically the same, but the fillings used are different. The sweet ones are

Wrap in sugar and replace the salty ones with vegetables.

During the Guangdong New Year, you can’t miss out on the oil.

In the past, there were still ten days and twenty days before the Spring Festival, and every household would open the wok and fry the fried dumplings.

The purpose of frying some fried dumplings in a wok is to make the coming year as oily and rich as the wok.

(3) Glutinous rice cake is also a delicious snack during the Spring Festival, especially in the Wuyi Mountains in the south. The whole family happily prepares glutinous rice cake for the Spring Festival and has a great time.

Ciba is made from glutinous rice as the main ingredient. It is soaked, steamed in a steamer, and then quickly pounded in a stone ladle until soft and pliable.

While the rice is hot, make the pureed rice into large or small balls, stir-fry and grind the sesame seeds, and mix with white sugar.

Whenever there is a happy event, local people will make glutinous rice cakes mixed with brown sugar to entertain guests to show good luck.

2. Customs: (1) Sweeping dust during the Spring Festival. According to "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals", as early as the era of Yao and Shun, my country already had the custom of sweeping dust during the Spring Festival.

Because "dust" and "chen" are homophonic, sweeping dust in the New Year has given a new meaning, which means "removing the old and spreading the new", hoping to sweep away all bad luck and bad luck.

(2) Pasting couplets, characters of blessing, and door gods. On the afternoon of the day before the Spring Festival, children will step on stools, hold paste and brushes, and paste couplets on the door, and then let the adults below see if they are posted correctly.

Some of them are also written horizontally and affixed to the horizontal head of the lintel, and couplets are affixed to the left and right sides of the door.

Others paste the words "Fu" on house doors, walls, and lintels to express people's yearning for a happy life.

Some people will put paintings depicting door gods on door panels to pray for a safe and sound year and add to the festive atmosphere.

(3) Worshiping ancestors and gods Worshiping gods during the Spring Festival is a custom that spreads across my country’s east, west, north and south.

The customs of worshiping gods are similar across the country, but the purpose is basically the same, which is to pray for good weather, good harvests, good fortune, etc. in the coming year.

Ancestor worship is usually done after worshiping gods, and customs vary from place to place. In our hometown, every day before lunch, each household sends a representative to bring food and offerings to the ancestral hall to pay homage to the ancestors, which lasts until the first lunar month.

On the 15th, the ancestral hall will be closed.