What are the different customs of New Year's Eve in different places?

Northerners eat jiaozi for the first meal during the Spring Festival, and jiaozi is quite like an ingot, which means cherishing it. Some fillings in jiaozi are filled with sugar to make the New Year sweet. Some stuffing put peanuts (called longevity fruit), the intention is that people who eat can live longer; There is a kind of dumpling stuffing with a coin, which means that whoever eats it will "get rich". During the Chinese New Year, noodles are cooked in jiaozi, which is called "gold thread penetrates gold ingot".

On New Year's Eve, Chongqing people's "meat deduction" and "sea pepper dumping" are indispensable. In order to prepare this New Year's Eve dinner, it is impossible to prepare some essential traditional main dishes without mentioning the first ten and a half days. Among them, the most important ones are "deduction of meat" and "reclamation of pepper". It seems simple to "buckle meat", but it takes some effort to be really fat but not greasy, tender and refreshing; "Sea pepper" is to mix glutinous rice flour with seasoning, then fill it into the hollowed-out sea pepper, and then marinate it in a pickle jar for half a month. On new year's eve, take it out and fry it in oil, and you can serve it.

In most parts of South China, the first meal during the Spring Festival is to eat "rice cakes", which means "getting better every year", while the Miao people living in Hunan eat sweet wine and zongzi for the first meal during the Spring Festival, which means "life is sweet and the grain is plentiful".