The reunion dinner is the highlight of the Spring Festival. It is not only colorful, but also pays attention to the meaning. Worship ancestors or gods before eating the reunion dinner, and eat after the incense sticks are burned. Generally, there are chicken (with a plan), fish (with more than one year), oyster sauce (with a good market), lettuce (with wealth), yuba (with wealth), garlic (with calculation) and so on for good luck.

1. jiaozi: Lucky for Money and Treasure

In Chinese folklore, eating "jiaozi" on New Year's Eve is an important feast that can't be replaced by any delicacies. "jiaozi", also known as "Jiaozi" or "Jiaoer", means the alternation of the old and the new, and it is also a great feast food that must be eaten. Eating jiaozi means "making friends at a younger age", and "zi" means "zi Shi", which is homophonic with "jiao", meaning "happy reunion" and "good luck". In addition, jiaozi, shaped like an ingot, eats jiaozi during the Chinese New Year, which also has the auspicious meaning of "making a fortune".

There is a direct relationship between the choice of dumpling stuffing and its implication. The most common leek stuffing implies a long-term wealth, because a long time means a long time, so it is called a long-term wealth. The typical Chinese cabbage stuffing in winter means a hundred treasures. Mushrooms have the most health-preserving effect. Wrapping them in dumpling stuffing means drum wealth, that is, the drum rises and protrudes. The shape of mushrooms is like an upward arrow, or it means the trend of the stock market, upward and full, which means drum wealth. Finally, there is sauerkraut that Nanjing people love to eat, which is said to have the meaning of calculating wealth.

2. Chicken: There is a plan

On a rich New Year's Eve dinner table, chicken is naturally indispensable. 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". The local Hakka people in Guangzhou worship God and use chickens and geese as "firstborn", and they all choose "walking chickens", which means that survival is fierce.

in order to reduce the intake of fat and calories, peel it before or after cooking. In fact, there is a film between the chicken skin and the chicken, which keeps the meat moisture and prevents the fat from spilling. Therefore, if necessary, chicken should be peeled after cooking, which can not only reduce fat intake, but also ensure the delicious taste of chicken.

3. Pig gizzards: Good luck

Pig gizzards mean good luck all year round, so every New Year, pig gizzards will be rushed to buy by old neighbors!

4. Fish: There is more than enough every year

Because there is a traditional saying in China that there is more than enough (fish) every year, fish is an essential dish for New Year's Eve. Eating carp on New Year's Eve is homophonic with "Li", and eating carp in the New Year is very prosperous. Eating crucian carp on New Year's Eve is homophonic with "auspicious", and eating crucian carp and crucian carp together in the New Year is good luck. Eating silver carp on New Year's Eve is homophonic with "Lian", and eating silver carp in Chinese New Year is more than one year.

in order to eat more than a year's worth of kindness, you can eat two fish on New Year's Eve, one on New Year's Eve and one on New Year's Day, which means more than a year's worth. If you make one, you can eat the terminal on the New Year's Eve and the head and tail on the first day of the New Year's Day, so there are more than one year after another, and there are fish tails.

5, oyster sauce: a good market

In South China, there are many kinds of New Year's Eve dinners, such as chicken, roasted meat, Nostoc flagelliforme, oyster sauce and so on, because "Nostoc flagelliforme" is homophonic with "making a fortune and making a good market". Oyster black bean, also known as "dried oyster", a dried product of oyster (also known as oyster) meat, is a must-eat dish for Guangdong people during the Spring Festival. Oyster soybean is the best food to supplement calcium, which is rich in phosphorus. Because calcium needs the help of phosphorus when it is absorbed by the body, it is beneficial to the absorption of calcium.

6. Shrimp: Ha ha laugh

People in Guangzhou like to eat seafood. Shrimp will be an auspicious dish in the New Year, such as boiled shrimp and fried shrimp, because shrimp means laughing and laughing every day. A shrimp in the New Year makes you laugh and be happy every year.

7. Long-term dish: Longevity

Taiwan Province has a "long-term dish" for the first meal of the Spring Festival, which is a kind of mustard with long stems and leaves and bitter taste. Some also add slender vermicelli to the dishes, which means "continuous, immortal". On New Year's Eve, when people cut vegetables, they cut them longer than usual, hence the name, which means a long time and more income in the coming year. Eating New Year's Eve means that there is a surplus left for the next year, which represents the working people's yearning for a better life and their expectation for the New Year's life.

8. Celery: Diligence

The New Year's Eve dinner is not only a family reunion and a beautiful expectation for the coming year, but also an opportunity to educate children. Celery in long-term dishes is homophonic with diligence, which teaches children to be hardworking, and only hard work can lead a better life.

9. Pig hands: Make a fortune

Pig hands can be stewed, made with vegetables, or peanut, and so on. There are many ways to eat them, because pig hands mean making a fortune, and everything will be smooth and profitable. So this dish is also a favorite auspicious dish in Guangzhou neighborhood!

1. Lettuce: making money

Lettuce is homophonic with "making money" and is a necessary vegetable for the New Year. Put a golden fried dumpling on it, and it will be "gold bars make money".

11. Yuba: Abundance

Yuba means "Abundance" and is also an indispensable dish on New Year's Eve. We all know that yuba is a derivative of soybean. Experts pointed out that compared with soybeans, yuba is more easily absorbed by human body and has richer nutritional value, so it is a good eating habit to eat some yuba frequently.

12, garlic: can calculate

"Laba pickled garlic, eat on New Year's Eve", and the garlic word of Laba garlic is homophone with the word "calculate", which means "can calculate". In the traditional Laba Festival, apart from the custom of drinking Laba porridge, the custom of pickling Laba garlic on the same day is still popular in the northern region. When it is opened on New Year's Eve, Laba garlic with bright white and green will try to eat jiaozi, which is called a compliment.

Laba garlic has the functions of removing greasy and fishy smell, and it tastes sweet and sour, and it can also increase appetite even after eating rice. However, because Laba garlic is pickled with vinegar, eating too much may cause certain corrosion to teeth. In addition, people with bad stomachs should also pay attention to eating Laba garlic, which is not conducive to stomach health.

13. Roasted meat: it is booming

Roasted meat is very popular with Laoguang people, with crispy skin and fragrant meat. Guangzhou people like to have this dish at the New Year's Eve because burning meat means that the skin is red and strong, which means that you are thriving every day. It is a good Italian dish.

14, rice cakes: high every year

To prepare rice cakes during the Chinese New Year is to show happiness. Because of its homophonic "high age" and varied tastes, rice cakes have almost become a must-have food for every family. The styles of rice cakes are square yellow and white rice cakes, which symbolize gold and silver and express the meaning of making a fortune in the New Year.

The rice cakes in the north are mainly sweet, steamed or fried, and some people simply eat them with sugar. The rice cakes in the south are both sweet and salty, such as those in Suzhou and Ningbo, which are made of japonica rice and have a light taste. In addition to steaming and frying, you can also slice and fry or cook soup. Sweet rice cakes are made of glutinous rice flour with white sugar, lard, rose, sweet-scented osmanthus, mint, vegetable paste and other ingredients. They are fine in workmanship and can be steamed directly or fried with egg white.