1, rice cake
Eating rice cakes on New Year's Day, rice cakes are high year after year, which means that they have higher expectations and gains for the new year. Eating rice cakes on New Year's Day was popular in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, but now it is more popular in the south, especially glutinous rice cakes.
2. Tangyuan
Eating dumplings on New Year's Day means reunion. On this day of universal celebration, people like to get together with their families, eat delicious food and share the harvest of this year, sum up the gains and losses, and imagine the new goals and plans for the new year. Eating glutinous rice balls on New Year's Day also hopes that the whole family will be round and round.
3. jiaozi
Eating jiaozi on New Year's Day originated in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The whole family got together, covered jiaozi, talked about their homeliness, told each other about the unhappiness and grievances they encountered in their work and life, and also shared the joys and gains they encountered. The time passed unconsciously, and the steaming jiaozi was on the table. The warmth of home warmed Guizi's heart. Eating jiaozi on New Year's Day is popular in the north.
4. Fish
People will eat fish on New Year's Day, which is also a very important day. Fish also represents the meaning of having more than one year. Eating fish on New Year's Day, especially braised fish, means that the New Year is booming and has more than one year.
5. Eggs
In some areas of our country, there is also the custom of eating an egg on New Year's Day, which is said to have appeared during the Wu and Jin Dynasties. It is recorded in ancient books that when you swallow a chicken egg raw, it is called practicing shape. Here, practicing form is a Taoist term, which means practicing form and thinking that you can become immortal.