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Chinese New Year foods are very important to Chinese people. All family members get together to have big and delicious meals at this time. Chinese New Year foods are delicious. Jiao-zi, fish and nian-gao are usually popular and most people like to eat them.
Jiao-zi
Jiao-zi is a traditional kind of food in China, people in North (北方) China love to eat jiao-zi on Chinese New Year's Eve. People make jiao-zi look like Chinese silver ingots (银元宝). It means the more jiao-zi you eat during Chinese New Year, the more money you can make in the next year. So people think you will live a rich life after eating them.
Fish
For Chinese, "fish" sounds like Yu. It's "surplus". Chinese people always like to have a surplus at the end of the year, because they think if they can keep something at the end of the year, then they can make more in the next year.
Nian-gao
In China, nian-gao is a lucky food Gao sounds the same as the word for "tall or high" Nian-gao means "getting higher year by year". For Chinese people, the higher you are, the more money you will have or the better you will do.