Beginning of a year in China’s lunar calendar

	jiaozi

The Spring Festival, at the beginning of a year in China’s lunar calendar, is considered as the most important festival by the Chinese. There are many kinds of foods used to celebrate the New Year by Chinese.
Generally, in the northern part of China, the fist meal of the New Year is usually dumplings, or jiaozi. But in the southern part, people would like to eat stuffed glutinous rice balls, glutinous rice flour cake or noodles.
China’s numerous minority nationalities also have the tradition of celebrating Chinese New Year, but with their own unique set of festival foods. The Hui people eat noodles and simmered meat on the first day of the lunar month. The Yi people have “Tuo Tuo Meat”. The Zhuang minority likes to have a large sticky rice cake that weighs more than 2.5 kilometres. The Mongolian minority people gather around the fire to have boiled dumplings, but must leave lots of leftover wine and meat, only then will the coming year be full of prosperity.