2. Old hen soup: Chicken is indispensable on a rich dinner table on New Year's Eve. On New Year's Eve, the first dish to eat at dinner in many places is chicken, because it means good luck. There must be a chicken on the dining table for the New Year's food, because "eating chicken starts".
3. Cold preserved eggs: A plate of big fish and meat is filled with the table on the New Year's Eve. It must be accompanied by several refreshing cold dishes, which are cool and refreshing, and can also relieve greasy food, mix with meat and vegetables, and be nutritious and delicious. Cold preserved eggs are delicious and beautiful. The ingredients are cucumber and preserved eggs. Cucumber absorbs the flavor of the juice and preserved eggs are more delicious.
4. New Year's cake: New Year's cake is also a must-eat food. Rice cakes, like "high year", have the meaning of rising year by year, symbolizing that the days are getting better year by year. There are many ways to eat rice cakes, which can be used as both cooking and staple food. Stir-fried rice cakes with swimming crab, shredded Chinese cabbage and tomato, each with its own flavor, are common dishes on the table. Egg rice cake soup and boiled rice cake with green vegetables are also very common ways to eat. The rice cake is not only a kind of delicious food, but also brings new hope to people every year. As a poem in the late Qing Dynasty said, "People's hearts are high, and food is made in harmony, so that the year is better than the year, so as to pray for the year."
5. Braised pork: red is the same as "Hong", and red meat is pork. Eating pork in the Spring Festival symbolizes lucky strike. In thousands of years of traditional customs in China, pork is one of the essential ingredients for major festivals. Killing pigs in the New Year is a custom in many places. On that day, every family will invite relatives and friends to dinner, which is not only a ceremony, but also a reward for people who have worked hard for a year. Pork is also a symbol of abundance. On New Year's Eve, a steaming bowl of braised pork not only means that lucky strike is thriving, but also means that the coming year will be full of wealth.