1. Eat fish for New Year’s Eve dinner

Fish is the most common and indispensable ingredient on New Year’s Eve dinner tables across the country, because it has auspicious meanings and means “more than enough every year.” , indicating that there will be surplus money and food in the new year, and everything will be abundant. 2. Eating glutinous rice balls for New Year’s Eve dinner

Yuanxiao, also known as glutinous rice balls, is more common in the south. It is made by rolling glutinous rice into a round shape (different flavors of fillings can be added into it), and then put into a pot for cooking, which means reunion. 3. Eat sweets at the New Year’s Eve dinner

Sweets are often served as the last dish of the New Year’s Eve dinner, wishing you a sweet future. 4. Eating dumplings for New Year's Eve dinner

Northerners are accustomed to eating dumplings during the New Year, which means "Gengsuijiaozi" (Gengsuijiaozi), the alternation between the old and the new. And because the white flour dumplings are shaped like silver ingots, serving them on the table symbolizes "making a fortune in the new year, and the ingots rolling in". When making dumplings, some people also wrap a few coins that have been sterilized in boiling water, saying that whoever eats them first will make more money.

The custom of eating dumplings was passed down from the Han Dynasty. According to legend, the medical sage Zhang Zhongjing saw that the ears of the poor were rotten by the cold during the twelfth lunar month of winter, so he made a "Quhan Jiao Er Decoction" to treat frostbite for the poor.