The Spring Festival is the most important traditional festival for the Chinese. Although people's living standards have improved now, and big fish and meat are no longer only available during the New Year and holidays, those traditional foods with the flavor of the New Year are still an indispensable protagonist on the table. If you don’t eat these delicacies during the Chinese New Year, you will always feel like you are missing something. 1. Dumplings

On the New Year’s Eve dinner table in the north, dumplings are a delicacy that cannot be replaced by any delicacies. Dumplings, also known as Jiaoer and Jiaozi, mean the alternation of old and new. On New Year's Eve, people stay up late and eat dumplings, which means "New Year's Eve". In addition, dumplings look like ingots, so eating dumplings during the Chinese New Year also means "bringing in wealth".

2. Rice cakes

Eating rice cakes during the Spring Festival is a custom in many places. Fujian’s red/white rice cakes, Ningbo’s water-milled rice cakes, Suzhou’s osmanthus sugar rice cakes, and Beijing’s bagels Rice cakes, sticky cakes from the north, etc. Because rice cakes are also called "nian rice cakes", which are homophonic to "every year", eating rice cakes means that people's work and life are getting better year by year.

3. Fish

The least thing on the Spring Festival table is fish, because fish is the same as "surplus", which means "surplus" and means "surplus every year." There are many things to pay attention to when eating fish during the New Year. Fish should be the last dish on the New Year’s Eve dinner and cannot be finished, which symbolizes that there is “surplus” every year. In some places, fish heads and tails are left to be eaten on the first day of the Lunar New Year, which means there will be plenty of "surplus" from beginning to end of the year. 4. Chicken

Chicken is a homophonic word for "lucky". There is a saying in Guangdong that "there is no feast without chicken". Chicken is an indispensable delicacy for Cantonese people during the Chinese New Year. People eat chicken to pray for good luck and prosperity in the coming year. 5. Spring rolls

Spring rolls are made by stir-frying leeks, bean sprouts, shredded pork, celery, tofu shreds, chicken shreds, mushrooms and other ingredients, and then wrapping the vegetables with pancakes. Eat them from beginning to end, which represents " It has a beginning and an end.” In some places, fried spring rolls are eaten. The fried spring rolls look like pieces of gold bars, which has the auspicious meaning of "a thousand taels of gold".

What do people usually eat during the Chinese New Year? What else do you know about some foods with beautiful meanings during the Spring Festival~~