New Year delicacies include cured meat, dumplings, rice cakes, glutinous rice balls, spring cakes, etc. Among them, cured meat is a must-have delicacy in southern my country, including sausages, cured fish and bacon. Dumplings have always been one of the representative delicacies of the New Year and have a long history. , In addition, rice cake has the meaning of rising every year and is deeply loved by the people.
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".
Rice cakes: Eating rice cakes during the Spring Festival is a custom in many places, including red/white rice cakes in Fujian, water-milled rice cakes in Ningbo, osmanthus sugar rice cakes in Suzhou, mince rice cakes in Beijing, sticky rice cakes in the north, etc.
Because rice cakes are also called "nian rice cakes", which are homophonic with "every year is high", eating rice cakes means that people's work and life are getting better year by year.
Tangyuan: In southern my country, there is a custom of eating glutinous rice balls during the Spring Festival.
The "yuan" of glutinous rice balls means "reunion" and "completeness", symbolizing family harmony and sweet life.