The Spring Festival is the most important traditiona holiday in Chinese festivals. and now I, as a Chinese ,am going to tell you some characteristic food.

Dumplings 

Eating dumplings during new year, but the custom and time of eating dumplings is not the same in some places. there are some northern mountainous areas have the tradition that they eat dumplings every morning from the five days at the begining of the new year,which express their New Year wishes.

Laba porridge
According to historical records, the history of rice porridge to drink can dated back more than a thousand years. The custom began in the Song Dynasty, whether you are rich or poor, and everyone should drink Laba rice porridge that is firstly cooked with red beans and subsequently, by the evolution, coupled with local characteristics, and gradually varied up. Laba rice porridge not only smelled  sweet fragrance, but also is good for your health, so it was popular and highly welcomed by people at that time.

New Year cake
The types of cake:there are white cake, yellow rice cakes and southern rice cake by water mill  in the north; there are waxy Baba and Taiwan red turtle cake in the southwest. the cake has become a perennial supply of snacks available in the market