1. There is an old Chinese saying that "dumplings are as delicious as they are delicious", and as the most representative traditional Chinese food, dumplings are a must at New Year's. People usually wrap the dumplings before 12 o'clock on New Year's Eve and wait until midnight to cook them, which is the time when the new year and the old year come together. Usually before 12:00 p.m. on New Year's Eve, people wrap the dumplings and cook them at midnight (11:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.), which is the time when the New Year and the Old Year meet, so they eat dumplings for the Chinese harmonic sound "更岁交子", which means "to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new". The Chinese never forget to eat dumplings during the Spring Festival, no matter how sumptuous the dishes are.

2. Rice cakes

Rice cakes are also a traditional Chinese New Year dish in Hebei province. In some places, it is also called "nian nian gao" (年年糕), after the Chinese word "nian nian gao" (年年高), which means that people expect their lives to get better and better every year. Rice cakes are usually made from glutinous rice flour and yellow rice flour, and there are yellow and white rice cakes. Rice cakes can be eaten in soups mixed with vegetables and meat, or steamed with osmanthus flowers and roses. It is said that the rice cake was first used only as an offering to ancestors and gods, and then gradually became a Chinese New Year food with a history of more than 2,000 years.

3, wontons

New Year's Day to eat wontons to take its meaning of the beginning. Legend has it that Pangu's opened up the sky and earth, ending the state of chaos, and then the universe came into being. Then take the "wonton" and "Hun hoard" of the harmonies, meaning that the grain is full of hoard.

4, long noodles

Long life noodles, eat long noodles in the New Year festival, meaning that you can live a hundred years. In ancient times, the noodle is called cake, so in the early days of soup noodles are also called soup cake, its practice is to pull the noodles into pieces and throw them into the pot, and now eat in the north of the "crow's head", "monkey ear" and other practices are almost the same. After the Tang Dynasty, began to use the rolling pin, then began to have a long noodle, hanging noodles, short noodles and so on.