1. rice cakes. In the south, the essential new year's goods during the Spring Festival are rice cakes. Even if you don't eat them, you should put a piece at home to show your kindness. Rice cakes are red, yellow and white, symbolizing gold and silver, implying that people's work and life are improving year by year.

2. Sugar ring. Sugar rings are made of glutinous rice flour. In order to celebrate, pine water is sometimes added to dye them red, and they are fried in an oil pan until they are cooked and golden yellow, which also means that gold is full of houses. Sugar ring has a long history, and it is a kind of powder fruit necessary for Chinese New Year.

3. Tangyuan. Most southern families are used to the traditional custom of getting together and having dumplings on the morning of the Spring Festival. It is said that Yuanxiao symbolizes family reunion, and eating Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month is the same custom all over the country.

4. oil angle. To bomb oil angle in the New Year, I took the meaning of "wok" for the sake of being as oily and rich as that wok in the coming year. The size of oil angle indicates a safe family. The auspicious meaning of oil angle's symbol: it is shaped like a "purse", that is, a wallet.

Extended information:

Spring rolls, also known as spring cakes, spring plates and pancakes, are traditional foods eaten by China folk in beginning of spring, and are popular all over China. Spring rolls contain good wishes for the New Year, which bodes well for the Spring Festival.

In some areas in the south, jiaozi is not eaten during the Spring Festival, but spring rolls are eaten. In ancient beginning of spring, the daily bread was very thin, also called pancake. Eat with several kinds of lettuce, called "spring plate". Every year on beginning of spring Day, we eat spring cakes, which are called "biting spring".

Spring cakes are pancakes baked with flour, which are usually eaten with rolled vegetables. The side dishes of the rolls are different. They are called spring cakes in Beijing, roast Beijing duck in Beijing, and roast goose with honey in Guangdong.

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