The meanings of the 16 dishes of the New Year’s Eve dinner are as follows:

Eight-treasure rice: family reunion

Steamed sea bass: more than enough every year

Soybean stew Pig's trotters: getting rich

Millet meatballs: reunion

Sweet and sour pork ribs: rising steadily

Beijing sauce shredded pork: flowers blooming and wealth< /p>

Pleurotus eryngii with tomato sauce: the icing on the cake

Baked chicken in the rice cooker: auspicious success

Printed shrimp with a lot of money: a lot of money

Steamed fish cakes: rising every step of the way

Braised pork: booming

Oyster sauce lettuce: good luck

Braised beef: awesome

Roasted chicken wings with green beans ：Four Seasons of Peace

Cordyceps Flower Pork Ribs Soup: Success

Stir-fried Shrimp with Green Beans and Corn: Jinyumantang

Differences in New Year’s Eve Dinner between the North and the South

Due to Due to geographical and climatic reasons, the north is still in the cold winter when everything is closed during New Year's Eve and Spring Festival. In winter, the northern region is covered with ice and snow, and it is basically impossible to grow crops. There are not many ingredients to choose from, so eat more dumplings during the New Year.

The southern region, especially some coastal areas, is basically green all year round. The south has a great advantage in fruits and vegetables and other ingredients in winter, so it has more selectivity in dietary choices; In terms of geographical location, and thanks to abundant water resources and wide distribution, there are various types of fish ingredients. On some important festivals, the food in the south will be richer and more diverse.