During the Spring Festival and Chinese New Year, an indispensable dish on people's table is pig's trotters, also called "getting rich", which means that you can scratch after eating pig's trotters, and wish you more prosperous, richer and happier fortune in the coming year. In ancient China, the pig's trotters also implied the champion. In ancient times, people often sent some pig's trotters to imperial examination candidates to wish them the champion. Legend has it that since the Tang Dynasty, the Jinshi in the imperial examination agreed with each other that if one of them became an official and a leader in the future, this person would ask the calligrapher of the same subject to write the Big Wild Goose Pagoda in red ink. From then on, whenever someone rushed for the exam, relatives and friends gave him some trotters.
"Making a fortune" is one of Guangdong people's favorite auspicious dishes.