One, eat dumplings

After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, dumplings gradually became the traditional food of the Spring Festival in the North. Because the dumplings are shaped like Yuanbao, there is the meaning of "inviting wealth into the treasure". Dumplings for the Spring Festival are wrapped at 12 o'clock on New Year's Eve, when it is the time of the year, in order to take the meaning of "changing the year and handing over the children".

Two, eat rice cakes

The Spring Festival to eat rice cakes, the meaning of the year wins the year, in order to pray for the year ripe, implying all the best year after year high. Rice cake types are: northern white cake cake, yellow rice cake; Jiangnan water mill rice cake; southwest of the glutinous rice; Taiwan has a red turtle cake.

Three, eat New Year's rice

Jiangnan custom, New Year's Day before the New Year's rice to be done in advance, served in a bamboo basket, above the red orange, Wu Ling, water chestnuts and other fruits and Yuan Bao cake, inserted pine branches, called "New Year's rice". Northern people's New Year's Eve rice, is made of gold and silver rice (yellow and white rice), rice with jujube, chestnut, longan, incense sticks embellished, inserted with pine and cypress branches.

Note on Chinese New Year Behavior:

1. Worship. New Year's Day, should go out to pay tribute to the New Year, to see people to say: good New Year! To the right and left neighbors, but also add a sentence: adults and children are also good! To businessmen to say: congratulations and wealth! In short, to be gentle, respectful, polite.

2, kowtow. New Year's day morning, the younger generation to kowtow to the elders to pay tribute to the New Year, the elders should give the younger generation pressure money. Nowadays, the traditional ones have faded, and there are few adults kowtowing, and the red envelopes are usually only for the little ones.

3, red envelopes. New Year's red envelope is the patent of the children. The first day of the New Year is some of the elders of their own family to give, is the pressure money. From the beginning of the second year, visiting friends and relatives are relatives and friends to give. The red envelope is not in how much, for the sake of a festive auspicious.

4, behavior. New Year's Day to say auspicious words, can not raise their voices, can not swear, can not hit the children, can not break things, can not move things in other people's homes, do not clean and do other work.