The implication of eating fish in China in the New Year is auspicious. There are fish (surplus) every year, and there are fish (surplus) in Qing Ji.

China people will definitely have fish on the table during the Spring Festival, which is one of the traditional foods during the Spring Festival. Fish is the last dish at the banquet, and it is basically not eaten when serving. As a mascot, it means "more than one year". In some places, when eating fish on New Year's Eve, we should leave the head and tail until next year (that is, the beginning of the year) to express the wish of "having a head and a tail" in the new year.

Food to eat on New Year's Eve

1, the highest in the year.

Preparing New Year's cake is to show happiness. Because of its homophonic "old age" and diverse tastes, rice cakes have almost become a must-have food for every household. The styles of rice cakes are square yellow and white rice cakes, which symbolize gold and silver and express the meaning of making a fortune in the New Year.

The rice cakes in the north are mainly sweet, steamed or fried, and some people simply eat them with sugar. There are sweet and salty rice cakes in the south, such as those in Suzhou and Ningbo, which are made of japonica rice and have a light taste. In addition to steaming and frying, you can also slice and fry or cook soup. Sweet rice cake is made of glutinous rice flour with sugar, lard, rose, osmanthus, mint, vegetable paste and other ingredients. They are fine in workmanship and can be steamed directly or fried with egg white.

2, the meaning of the New Year's Eve menu-fish: more than a year.

Because there is a traditional saying in China that fish is an essential dish for the New Year's Eve. Eating carp on New Year's Eve is homophonic with "Li", and eating carp in the New Year is very prosperous. Eating crucian carp on New Year's Eve is homophonic with "auspiciousness", and eating crucian carp and crucian carp together in the New Year is good luck. Eating silver carp on New Year's Eve is homophonic with "Lian", and eating silver carp in the New Year is getting more and more every year.

In order to eat more than one year's kindness, you can eat two fish on New Year's Eve, one on New Year's Eve and one on New Year's Eve, which means more than one year's kindness. If you make one, you can eat the terminal on New Year's Eve and the head and tail on New Year's Eve, so there are fish tails every year.

3, the meaning of the New Year's Eve menu-pig hand: making a fortune.

There are many ways to eat pig hands, such as stewed pig hands, vegetable delivery pig hands, peanut pig hands and so on. Because pig hand means to get rich, everything will be smooth and everything will be fine. So this dish is also a favorite auspicious dish in Guangzhou neighborhood.