In the north of the New Year's Eve dinner table, dumplings are any mountain delicacies 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, and eating them on New Year's Eve also means "inviting wealth and treasures".

2, fish

Chinese New Year diet pay attention to the good moral, 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 valuable.

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 dates rice cake, Beijing's fruit rice cake, Fujian taro rice cake and red and white sugar rice cake, Ningbo's water milled rice cake, Suzhou's osmanthus sugar rice cake, and so on. Rice cake, which means "year high", is a must-have food for Chinese New Year, which sends people's expectation of "yearly high".

4, dumplings

Sichuan region on the first day of the New Year's breakfast to eat dumplings, dumplings on this day is 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, meaning everything is going well, the family reunion; Shanghai people on the first day of the year breakfast is also eaten dumplings, meaning full, rich and powerful.

5, 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 generally 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".