The Chinese character for seed (子) also means child, so sunflower seeds symbolize having many sons and grandsons in traditional Chinese culture.
Eating sunflower seeds is a great way to kill time for Chinese people, and they are a necessary snack for the Chinese New Year. Unshelled sunflower seeds can be eaten both raw and stir-fried.
Malt candy, also known as Guandong candy, is a sticky treat made out of glutinous millet and sprouted wheat. It is a traditional snack that Chinese people eat on the Festival of the Kitchen God.
Sugar figure is a traditional folk art in China. The artists carry a pole with stove on one end and ingredients on the other which are usually cane sugar and barley sugar. These fragile figures have a brownish-yellow color, usually with yellow or green pigment added. The timing for sugar figure is the key because it may lose shape when overheated and it is impossible to develop into proper shape if it is cold and stiff. The tools for sugar figure can be as simple as spoon and shovel. The popular figure are people, animals and plants.
Sold by the stick, the dessert-to-go tastes great and looks greater -- bright red haws line up on a skewer in auspicious shapes, their sugary outer layers glimmering in the light.
While waiting for midnight on New Year’s Eve, many people will snack on some dried persimmon. Persimmons represent the phrase “everything goes according to your wishes” because of the pun for the word “shì.”