1, jiaozi
Eating jiaozi on New Year's Day is a traditional custom in the north, because jiaozi symbolizes reunion and good luck, and represents peace and smoothness in a year. On New Year's Day, family members get together to make jiaozi, cook and eat, talk about their daily lives, share their troubles at work and life, and create a warm family atmosphere.
2, rice cakes
Eating rice cakes on New Year's Day means that the new year is "getting taller every year" and getting better every year. The rice cake tastes soft, glutinous and sweet, and it is also a traditional food for the New Year.
3. Eggs
Eating eggs on New Year's Day is also a custom in some areas. Eating eggs on New Year's Day not only tastes delicious, but also symbolizes reunion. Eggs are a perfect ellipse, and eating eggs represents family reunion.
4. Tangyuan
South China also has the habit of eating dumplings on New Year's Day, which is the same as eating dumplings on New Year's Day. The dumplings are rolling, one bite at a time, soft and sweet, nutritious and delicious. The moral is also very good. Tangyuan has the meaning of being round and round. Eating Tangyuan at the beginning of the new year has a very good moral.
5. Five-spice plate
Five spiced dishes are five kinds of spicy dishes. As Yuan-day food, it was first seen in the Local Records of the Zhou Dynasty between Wu and Jin Dynasties. It is said that eating five spiced dishes in the morning of Yuan-day is "to help make five zang qi". On New Year's Day in beginning of spring, the dishes of onion, garlic, leek, Artemisia scoparia and mustard are mixed and eaten, which means to welcome the new year. It is called a five-spice dish.