1, jiaozi
Eating jiaozi on the Mid-Autumn Festival means that financial resources are rolling in. One of the auspicious meanings of jiaozi is family reunion. When cooking jiaozi, the implication of "making friends at the age of four" is added, while "zi" and "dumpling" are homophonic, which represents festive reunion and good luck. Therefore, jiaozi symbolizes good luck in the new year. In addition, jiaozi also symbolizes that the financial resources will be rolling in the coming year, because jiaozi is shaped like copper coins, and the money left by ancestors is consumed, while the soup jiaozi has stuffing and tastes very chewy.
2. Steamed buns
Eating steamed buns on the Mid-Autumn Festival means that it is thriving. The shape of steamed stuffed bun symbolizes perfection. Its shape is a perfect sphere, representing a beautiful, perfect and complete state. On this special day of birthday, everyone wishes that they can successfully spend a year's life journey. Eating steamed stuffed buns also represents the hope that everything will go well in the new year.
3. Pancakes
Eating pancakes on the Mid-Autumn Festival means well-being. It is customary to eat pancakes on this day, which means mending the sky and the land. Pancakes are thin and round, like a patch, so they have the symbolic meaning of mending the sky and the land.
4. Noodles
Eating noodles on the Mid-Autumn Festival means longevity. Because noodles are long, as early as ancient times, people ate longevity noodles to wish the newborn baby boy a long life, which is inherited from the secular world.
5. Eggs
Eating eggs on the Mid-Autumn Festival means reunion. Eggs have the meaning of reunion, and because "chicken" is homophonic with "auspicious", "egg" and "birthday", it symbolizes auspiciousness, completeness, rebirth and hope.
6. Fish
Eating fish on the Mid-Autumn Festival means that there is more than one year. People use fish to mean "more than every year" and "more than every year", which is a symbol of auspicious, rich, loving husband and wife, happy love, bright future and luck.