In the north of the New Year's Eve dinner table, dumplings are any delicacies of the sea can not be replaced by a feast food. Dumplings, also known as Jiao Er and Jia Zi, are a symbol of the transition between the old and the new. Dumplings are eaten on New Year's Eve to mark the change of the year. In addition, the dumplings are shaped like Yuanbao, eat dumplings on New Year's Eve, also has the meaning of "inviting wealth into the treasure".

2, fish

Chinese New Year diet pay attention to the good meaning, of course, without fish, usually the last dish on the table, some places this dish basically left without eating, meaning that "year after year". And some places on the selection of the New Year's Eve dinner in the fish is also concerned, silver carp for the year, crucian carp and carp for good luck, salmon for the rich and powerful.

3, rice cake

Early Suzhou people to commemorate Wu Zixu, New Year's Eve to do rice cake, and then gradually prevalent in all parts of the country, such as Shandong's red jujube rice cake, Beijing's fruit rice cake, taro rice cake in Fujian, and red and white sugar rice cake, Ningbo's water milled rice cake, Suzhou's cinnamon sugar rice cake, and so on. Rice cake is the harmonic "year high", is the Spring Festival must have seasonal food, sent people "year high" expectations.

4, dumplings

Sichuan on the first day of the New Year's breakfast to eat dumplings, the day of the dumplings called "Yuanbao", eat dumplings called "get Yuanbao", take its reunion, complete, sweet meaning. Yangzhou people on the first day of the New Year to eat four happy dumplings, implying that everything is as it should be, the family reunion; Shanghai people on the first day of the New Year breakfast is to eat dumplings, implying that the roundness of the fullness of the wealth and power.

5, wontons

In Jiangsu Jingjiang, no matter whether it is entertaining guests or festivals or happy events, must eat wontons. On the morning of New Year's Eve, every family will start chopping vegetables and wrapping wontons, from the 30th to the 15th of the first month of the year, "wontons on wine, the more you eat the more you have", sent the people of Jingjiang on the new year's best wishes.

6, preserved meat

New Year's Eve to eat preserved meat is China's Guangdong, Sichuan, Hunan and other places have traditional customs. Because of the long time required for the curing of preserved meat, it is usually prepared after the annual snow festival. Preserved meat, preserved sausage, preserved fish, preserved pig's head, etc., colorful and delicious, mouth-watering. In the old days, life was hard, material shortages, people will be a good wish to harmonize the New Year's food, so the Spring Festival to eat preserved sausage means "always eat often".