The recipes for South China's New Year's Eve dinner are 10: Zhu Bao Ping 'an (boiled bamboo tube shrimp), Fengdeng (diced cashew chicken), Younian (sweet and sour carp), Climbing higher and higher (fried ribs with sauce), icing on the cake (crab yellow broccoli), Hongfu Qitian (Awu tofu), No.1 scholar jiaozi (lace jiaozi) and Happy Everyone (Awu fried).

New year's eve dinner in the south

There are four kinds of dishes in the Southern New Year's Eve, including chicken, duck, fish, meat, Chinese cabbage, celery, leek and tofu. Chicken symbolizes the dawn and good luck of the golden rooster; Ducks symbolize spring; Fish refers to more than one year; Meat symbolizes prosperity.

"Cai" and "Cai" are homophonic, and cabbage means making money; Celery symbolizes hard work and wealth; Leek, of course, means to get rich forever. Tofu is the homonym of wealth, which means that life is rich.