What do you want to eat on New Year's Day?

The custom of New Year's Day is to eat jiaozi, glutinous rice balls and rice cakes.

Different places have different customs and eat different foods. New Year's Day is the solar year in China, which means the beginning of a new year. People like to express their desire for the New Year with delicious food. For example, on New Year's Day, northerners would eat jiaozi, while on New Year's Day, the custom of eating jiaozi prevailed in the north of Ming and Qing Dynasties. For example, in the Records of Quwo County in Shanxi during Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty, it was recorded that double-day meals were used to cover gold and invite husbands to compete for happiness.

Eating rice cakes on New Year's Day was popular in Ming and Qing Dynasties, especially in the south. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Volume II of Scenery of the Imperial Capital recorded that it was exciting to wash and eat jujube cakes and rice cakes every day on the first day of the first month. There are three colors of rice cakes: red, yellow and white, which symbolize gold and silver. They are also called rice cakes, which are homophonic year after year, implying that people's work and life are improving year by year.

New year's day source

New Year's Day is a traditional festival in China. Yuan means beginning. The beginning of every number is called Yuan. Dan means day. New Year's Day means the first day. It first called the first month Yuan and the first day Dan.

In different times, New Year's Day refers to different specific times. January in spring is the first month in Xia dynasty, December in winter in Shang dynasty and November in winter in Zhou dynasty. In the Qin Dynasty, October was the first month, and the first day of October was New Year's Day. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, January in spring was the first month, and the first day of January was called New Year's Day, which was used until the late Qing Dynasty.

Today, New Year's Day has become a fixed festival, which is generally organized by groups, such as New Year's Day Gala, hanging slogans to celebrate New Year's Day, or holding group activities. Most rural areas retain the traditional way of celebrating in China. Every New Year's Day, every family gets together to kill chickens and geese to celebrate the New Year.