Other Spring Festival foods

Eight-treasure rice, or babaofan in Chinese,an indispensable food for the traditional New Year's Eve dinner for people in Shanghai, symbolizes reunion, good fortune and health.

On the 20th day of the last month in the lunar calendar, people of the Tujia ethnic group living in West Hunan Province always make glutinous rice cakes, a food that Hakka people also frequently have on the table during the festival.

People in Guangxi enjoy eating rice dumplings, which are also called zongzi, during Spring Festival, either buying them or preparing them at home.

Fu Rui contributed to this story