In the Spring Festival during the New Year's Eve, people's table is a rare dish is pig's trotters, people also call it "hair on the hand", which means that after eating pig's trotters can be scratched, wishing that in the coming year to be able to catch more wealth, to become richer and happier. In China's ancient times, pig's trotters also symbolize the success of the examination. In ancient times, people would often send pig's feet to candidates for the imperial examinations to wish them success in the examinations. Legend has it that from the time of Tang Dynasty, in the temple examination and the first scholar agreed with each other, if one of them will become an official in the future, do the general, this person will ask the same section of the calligrapher with a red pen to the name of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda. Since then, whenever someone rushed to take the examination, his friends and relatives presented him with some pig's trotters.

Fa Cai Jie Hands is one of the favorite auspicious dishes of the Cantonese.