The Spring Festival is a traditional festival in my country. On New Year’s Eve, families will gather together around the table to have a sumptuous New Year’s Eve dinner to express their best wishes for the new year. On the New Year's Eve dinner table, chicken appears frequently as a home-cooked ingredient. How many chicken recipes do you know? Do you know what the chicken means on the New Year’s Eve dinner table?

Chicken means good luck

"Chicken" has the same pronunciation as the word "ji" for auspiciousness. Chinese people believe that eating chicken represents good luck and good luck. The delicacy of Chinese New Year chicken is indispensable, and the chicken eaten during the Chinese New Year in Guangdong is a relatively complete chicken. Chicken means good luck, and chicken wings mean flying high and becoming successful. Eating it means "family reunion" for the whole family. meaning. Therefore, everyone will choose to eat chicken invariably. I hope that everyone will be safe and healthy in the new year.

Chicken represents strategy

"Chicken" is also the same as "ji", which represents strategy and strategy. Chickens like to fight and fight, which requires strategy. When two roosters meet, there is often a fight. This is also a common phenomenon in daily life. Hens also occasionally fight each other. The Chinese have a saying that "no feast can be complete without chicken", so chicken is an indispensable and important dish in any banquet, big or small, and New Year's Eve dinner is no exception. Having a chicken means "there is a plan", which means that you have a plan to make money and turn bad luck into good luck. There are many ways to cook chicken. For example, the Sichuan and Chongqing regions like to make spicy chicken, and the Guangdong region likes to eat pork belly chicken and white chopped chicken. Chickens from different places have different tastes.

Ancient people used chickens to offer sacrifices

In addition to the areas mentioned above, Hainan people also have their own unique ways of treating chickens. Tourists who have been to Hainan must have eaten Hainan's famous Wenchang chicken. During the Chinese New Year, chicken is also an indispensable dish on Hainanese people's tables. The pronunciation of "Chicken" means "ji", and the ancients also used chickens to drive away evil spirits and offer sacrifices. As early as the pre-Qin period, chickens and chicken blood were used to drive away evil spirits. The ancients believed that chickens and chicken blood could drive away evil spirits and eliminate disasters. Eating Wenchang chicken for New Year's Eve dinner is also for good luck, hoping that the coming year will be smooth and that every family will be safe.