2. Shrimp: It means laughing. People in Guangzhou like to eat seafood, and shrimp will be auspicious dishes for the New Year, such as boiled shrimp and fried shrimp, because shrimp eats chicken for the New Year.
3, eat rice cakes in the New Year: getting better every year. The first meal of the Spring Festival in Hunan is to eat "rice cakes", which means "getting better every year", while a few Miao people in Hunan eat sweet wine and zongzi for the first meal of the Spring Festival, which means "life is sweet and the grain is plentiful".
4, eat fried piles in the New Year: gold and silver are full of houses. For Cantonese people, doing pile speculation in the New Year means "boring pile speculation, full of gold and silver". As early as the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Qu Dajun recorded in "Guangdong New Language": "Those who fry piles take glutinous rice flour as the size circle, fry it, worship their ancestors and give it to relatives and friends." In the past, it was a very grand thing to do fried piles. We should drive all the children out of the studio and say auspicious words while frying, so as to pray for a long-term future.