New Year goods

Purchasing New Year items is a traditional custom for Spring Festival. Kunshan also boasts various local specialties, including Wansan pork shank, sesame seed cake, sole-shaped flaky pastry and Aozao noodles.

New Year food

During the Spring Festival, Kunshan locals often eat Niangao, which is literally translated as Chinese New Year's cake made of glutinous rice. It is considered to bring good luck. In Chinese, "gao" means 'high' and niangao refers to "higher each year," symbolizing progress and promotion at work and in daily life year by year.

It is also a tradition to eat tangyuan, a Chinese sweet dumpling, during the festival to wish for family reunion. In addition, drinking rice wine and eating fish are parts of the New Year traditions.

Kunshan boasts various local specialties, including Wansan pork shank, sesame seed cake, sole-shaped flaky pastry and Aozao noodles. [Photo/ ks.js.cn]

Eating tangyuan, a Chinese sweet dumpling, conveys the wish for family union during the festival. [Photo/ ks.js.cn]

Drinking rice wine is also part of Kunshan's Spring Festival traditions. [Photo/ ks.js.cn]