It means all the best in the new year.
Because persimmon fruit is rich and round, and because "persimmon" and "thing" are homophonic, the meaning of persimmon is "all goes well". Moreover, eating persimmon in winter is especially sweet, which also reflects that our life can be sweet and happy.
There are also places where it is believed that dried persimmons, after being weathered by the wind and the sun, are as white as snow in the end, just like lovers, who have been weathered for a lifetime, and finally have white hair hand in hand. Therefore, it is considered that persimmon is a kind of food that most represents love, and its pulp center is red and as passionate as love.
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What are the meanings of common foods?
1. Eating chicken in the New Year means good luck in the coming year. ?
2. The homonym of "fish" and "surplus" means that there is more than one year. ?
3. Four Joy Meetballs's round shape indicates family reunion. 4. Steamed vegetables mean that the family will have a prosperous career, work and life in the coming year. 5. The rice cake is also called "Niannian cake", which is homophonic with "high year after year", implying that people's work and life are improving year by year. 6. jiaozi is shaped like an ingot, and it has the meaning of "making money into treasure" during the Chinese New Year. In addition, jiaozi takes the meaning of "making friends at a younger age", and the word "zi" is "zi Shi", which is homophonic with "jiao", meaning "happy reunion" and "good luck". 7. Eating dates means that spring comes early. 8. Eating almonds means happiness.