Eating fish in the Spring Festival is exquisite, which indicates that there is more than one year, so eating fish in the Spring Festival is a custom in the New Year.

2. Long noodles

Also known as longevity noodles, eat it in the New Year and wish you a long life. All pasta in ancient times were called cakes, so noodle soup was also called soup cakes at first. At first, the noodles were not rolled or pressed, but the reconciled noodles were torn into pieces by hand in the pot, similar to the practices of "crow's head" and "monkey's ear" eaten in the north.

3. Wonton

Eating wonton in the new year takes its original meaning. Legend has it that Pangu created the world, making "the light and clear air is the sky, and the heavy and turbid air is the ground", and ending the chaotic state, the universe has four sides. Then take the homonym of "wonton" and "muddy hoarding", which means that food is full of hoarding.

4. rice cakes

The custom of eating rice cakes during the Spring Festival originated in the Song Dynasty and flourished in the Ming Dynasty. Eating rice cakes, from the auspicious meaning of "sticky (sticky) high (cake) every year", is interpreted as the meaning of rising year by year.

5. jiaozi

It is one of the traditional foods in China. Also known as flat food or boiled cake. In ancient times, there were only wonton and no jiaozi. Later, the wonton was made into a crescent shape and became jiaozi. In the Tang Dynasty, the habit of eating jiaozi had spread to the remote areas of China. On New Year's Eve, as soon as twelve o'clock strikes, we begin to eat jiaozi, so it is the time of the year, which means that the old and the new alternate and the time of the year comes.

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1, Sanyang (Yang) Kaitai

A delicious dish made of pork belly, pork leg and chicken leg. The Book of Changes says that Yang hexagrams are connected, Yin hexagrams are broken, the first month is Thai hexagrams, and Sanyang was born in summer. When winter goes and spring comes, the yin disappears and the yang grows, which is auspicious. Often used to praise the beginning of the year or to mean good luck.

2. Shrimp

Shrimp is also an auspicious dish on the New Year's Eve table, such as boiled shrimp, fried shrimp and braised prawns. Shrimp means laughing and laughing every day. A shrimp in the New Year makes you laugh every year.

3. Pig hands

Pig's hand means to get rich and do everything smoothly. So this dish is also a favorite auspicious dish.

4. Braised pork

Braised pork, as a traditional dish on the family dinner table, means that the coming year will be full of prosperity and wealth. This famous dish is also an essential dish for New Year's Eve.

5. five blessings

Five blessings belongs to the home cooking menu. It's named after the five healthy ingredients, such as mushrooms, vegetarian chicken, baked bran, day lily (day lily), quail eggs, five main ingredients, small red dates, medlar, etc., and the five-flavor taste.

6. Sweet and sour pork ribs

Sweet-and-sour pork ribs are a representative traditional dish in sweet-and-sour dishes. It uses fresh pork chops as the seasoning, with fresh and tender meat, bright red and oily color, crisp and sweet taste, which is quite popular among the eaters in the south of the Yangtze River. "Sweet and sour" is a taste that all the major cuisines in China have. There are many diners who love this food, and the dishes with bright colors are the most pleasing at the New Year's Eve.

7. Bacon sausage

This dish is not only these two kinds, but also contains pig's head meat, pig's tail, pig's mouth and so on, all of which can be smoked. Pig's head and pig's tail imply a head and a tail.

8. Four Joy Meetballs

Braised lion head, a famous dish of Han nationality. It is a dish that China often eats on holidays. It is also called Four Joy Meetballs, which means it is auspicious. This is a famous dish in Huai, with fat and thin meat ruddy and shiny, accompanied by green vegetables, bright colors and tangy fragrance, which will arouse the appetite just by looking at it. The mellow and fragrant meat and juice are irresistible top delicacies.

9. Lettuce

Lettuce is homophonic with "making money" and is a must-have vegetable for Chinese New Year. Put a golden fried dumpling on it, and it will be "gold bars make money".

10, yuba

Yuba means "abundance" and is also an indispensable dish on New Year's Eve. We all know that yuba is a derivative of soybean. Experts pointed out that compared with soybeans, yuba is more easily absorbed by human body and has richer nutritional value, so it is a good eating habit to eat some yuba frequently.