New Year's traditional food what (to write the meaning)
This year for the year B You, if according to the eight directions of the gossip each take what they need, clever use, but also helpful. The north bit: for the joy of the position, the benefit of the spouse to find a person. Southwest position: the position of the official star, the official wealth, exams. South: the position of your son, wealth and fortune, and seek pregnancy are auspicious. West: for the wealth position, favorable to seek wealth and profit. The rest is not taboo. New Year's Eve dinner should be eaten slowly, (on behalf of longevity), and each dish should taste a mouthful of auspicious, around the stove of the dishes to be selected with auspicious meaning for the best, must eat the dishes as follows example: longevity vegetables: the so-called longevity vegetables are mostly referred to mustard greens, Taiwan, Taiwan, high screen area is represented by the spinach with roots, in the New Year's Eve night before the whole plant of mustard greens will be cooked with water, also known as "the next year vegetables", in the cooking, do not go to the head and tail, take the meaning of the head has a tail! In the cooking process, they are not cut into small pieces, which means that they will last forever. In short, eating Nenburi is a way of wishing for a long life. When you eat them, they should be eaten one by one, one by one, with the head and the tail at the end, not eaten horizontally or chewed off, which means that you are wishing your parents a long life. Chives: The Taiwanese word for leeks, "jiu cai", also means to wish for a long life. Eggplant: It represents vitality, and it is said that "eating eggplant makes you angry". Celery: It means easy money or hard work. Turkey: Chicken is a must for the end-of-year worship and New Year's Eve dinner. If you buy a turkey, boil it in water, and then tear the meat into strips and eat it after paying homage, as in the case of Chicken Rice in Chiayi, couples and family members will eat turkey together, which means that they will "start a family", and the "turkey fire" represents "money". Dried beans: Eating dried beans will make you an official. Meatballs: Symbolizes the success of everything. Fish: Eating fish in Chinese New Year's Eve means that there will be fish and money every year, which means that there will be money left over every year. Generally, people do not dare to eat fish at the New Year's Eve dinner, but leave the fish on the plate until the first day of the New Year to show that they have money left over every year. If you want to eat fish, you should prepare two big fish on New Year's Eve, one for your stomach and one for the first day of the new year, so that you can have a surplus in your stomach. Nian Gao (New Year's cake): In Taiwanese, it is called "sweet rice cake", which represents "sweetness and honey" for a good New Year's Eve, and also has the symbol of "high rise in the year", which is a homonym of "cake" and "high". Fat Pon Kueh: Fat Pon Kueh is a symbol of good luck and wealth. Vegetable cake: it has the meaning of "good luck". Vegetable buns: a good luck for a good start, to pray for gold, silver, treasures, wealth and fortune. Peanut: It is a symbol of longevity. Eat "beans" to live to a ripe old age and live a long life. Melon seeds, ginkgo nuts, chestnuts, etc.: are seeds of fruits, representing a good harvest for plants. Winter melon candy, candies, etc.: "Sweet" means sweet for the New Year. Desserts also represent the hope for a sweet New Year. Jujubes: Representing a good year, as jujube rhymes with good. Citrus: Symbolizes sweetness and good fortune every year. Feng Li: a metaphor for 'prosperity'. Eating a lot of fried food also symbolizes the prosperity of the family.