1, the traditional New Year's Eve dinner is usually four cold dishes and eight hot dishes. There are no special rules for four cold dishes, depending on personal preference. And eight hot dishes are generally four meats and four vegetables. The four meat dishes are chicken, duck, fish and meat. The four vegetarian dishes are Chinese cabbage, celery, leek and tofu.

2. Among the eight hot dishes in the twelve-course traditional New Year's Eve dinner, the chicken means that the golden rooster announces the dawn and has good luck; Chunjiang plumbing duck prophet, so duck means spring; Fish means more than a year; Meat symbolizes prosperity.

3. Among the four vegetarian dishes in the traditional 12-course dinner, "Cai" and "Cai" are homophonic, and cabbage means making clear wealth; Celery symbolizes hard work and wealth; Leek symbolizes permanent wealth; "Rotten" and "rich" in tofu are homophonic, which means that life is rich.

4. Twelve dishes also symbolize eating and drinking every twelve months of the year, and having plenty of food and clothing.

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The annual New Year's Eve dinner is a big meal that the whole family should mobilize. Every household will put on dishes that are rarely seen on weekdays or are auspicious: there are usually dishes such as chicken (meaning there is a plan), fish (meaning there is more than one year), glutinous rice balls (meaning reunion) and lotus roots (meaning cleverness) for good luck in the New Year.

This is also the expectation for a better life in the coming year. New Year's Eve, what you eat is joy, what you taste is affection, and what you smell in the fragrant rice is the taste of home. The annual New Year's Eve dinner is extremely important to the people of China. The whole family respects and loves each other, and they are happy to sit around the dining table.