Travel In China: Lunar New Year dinners across China

A big family with four generations altogether in South China's Chongqing municipality are making dumplings on the first day of 2015 in the Lunar Calendar. While people in the northern part of China usually enjoy dumplings on the Lunar New Year Eve, in the south, dumplings are still not the main course for people

Yang Zilin, a college student, has a big reunion dinner with her family in Chengdu, Sichuan province, on the eve of Spring Festival on Wednesday, February 18, 2015. The dishes shown here are stir-fried pork slices, duck soup and braised fish with red sauce. Sichuan Cuisine, as one of the eight major Chinese cuisines, enjoys a high popularity at home and abroad.

Picture taken on February 18 shows plates of Chinese New Year treats in a town of Zhangjiakou, a city in northern China's Hebei province. Local people have the custom to eat various treats such as dates, nuts, sunflower seeds and candies on the Chinese New Year .They also drink water with brown sugar to start a sweet new year.

Twenty-five-year-old Shuai Lingdong, a girl working in Beijing, enjoys a dinner from her hometown Suizhou, Central China's Hubei province as she finally returns to her hometown for this year's Spring Festival. The photo shows traditional Hubei cuisine including Hubei-style spring roll, fried fish with soy sauce and crisp bones.

The picture taken on February 18 in South China's Chongqing municipality shows three traditional steamed dishes from the Sichuan cuisine including steamed pork steak with sticky rice.