There are customs and habits everywhere. The sixth and sixth seats of Shandong Boshan wedding banquet stipulate that fish is the last course, and the dish is served. The allusion of six bowls of vegetables and six bowls of fish also illustrates this problem, which means the end.

People in Changsha love to eat fish, but there are rules for eating fish. For example, the sixth course on the table in Changsha can't serve fish.

In the past, people in Changsha usually didn't have more than five bowls of dishes at banquets, and fish was served in the sixth bowl, suggesting that everyone should stop stretching chopsticks and drinking fish, and the banquet ended in joy. Later, life gradually improved, and you served fish on the sixth course, which meant to drive away the guests.

There is another saying. In Changsha dialect, six means silly, and fish is the same as silly. If Changsha people see a person who is slow-witted and doesn't speak or do things properly, they generally don't say you are really stupid like northerners, but tell the fish, or six bowls of fish. Therefore, these are also taboos for the sixth course, which can't serve fish.

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Fish is an essential dish on the New Year's Eve table, which symbolizes "more than one year". The custom of eating fish in the New Year seems to have a hidden rule in many areas south of the Yangtze River. Fish is the last dish at the banquet, and it is basically not eaten on the table. As a mascot, it means "more than one year". In some places, when eating fish on New Year's Eve, we should save the head and tail for next year (that is, the first day of the Lunar New Year).

Express the wish of "beginning and ending" in the New Year. There are also exquisite fish: the fish head should show respect to VIPs or elders; The visitor is a scholar, pointing the fish belly at him and praising his good writing; The visitor is a military commander. He turns his back on him and praises him for his courage and can be a backbone. There is also the placement of the fish when it is served. Who is the head and the tail of the fish? After it is placed, it cannot be moved.

People facing the fish head "cut the ribbon" and those facing the fish tail "sponsored". First, two people pack jiaozi a glass of wine, then the person facing the fish head moves chopsticks to eat fish (so-called "ribbon cutting"), and then everyone can move chopsticks. The atmosphere is lively and full of joy.