1, dumplings: dumplings is a very long history of China's food, popular among the people, folk "delicious but dumplings" proverb. During the Spring Festival, dumplings are an indispensable meal, in addition, in everyday life, if there is any happy event or have friends as guests, people will often make dumplings to eat.

2, rice cake: rice cake is also a very long history of food, our country in a long time ago began to grow rice, and use rice to make food, the Han Dynasty people on the rice cake, "rice cake", "bait", "mochi" and so on a variety of names. rice cake", "bait", "mochi" and other names, rice cake has the symbolism of high year, so people will eat rice cake in the Spring Festival, to get a good luck.

3, Yuanxiao: Yuanxiao may have originated in the Song Dynasty, it is called a variety of names, but also can be made into a variety of flavors, the Lantern Festival to eat Lanxiao, is to take the "group such as the moon," the meaning of good luck.

4, fish: the Spring Festival diet pay attention to the good moral, of course, fish, generally the last dish on the table, some places this dish basically stayed uneaten, meaning "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.

5, chicken: "no chicken is not a feast" is the mantra of the Cantonese, Guangdong, Hong Kong and the area must eat chicken on New Year's Eve, chicken and Ji pronounced similar to represent the life of the good luck. People in Hubei have to drink chicken soup on New Year's Day, which symbolizes the peace of Qingtai. Chicken wings symbolize the wings to fly, chicken claws meaning "New Year's catching money", eat chicken bones, said "outstanding".