1. jiaozi: Make a fortune.
Moral: 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".
2. Fish: More than one year.
Moral: Because there is a traditional saying in China that there is a surplus of 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.
3. Chicken: Have a plan
On New Year's Eve, there is naturally a chicken on a rich dinner table. 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".
4. Wonton: full of food
Eating wonton in the new year takes its original meaning. Legend has it that Pangu created the world, making "the light and clear air is the sky, and the heavy and turbid air is the ground", and ending the chaotic state, the universe has four sides. Then take the homonym of "wonton" and "muddy hoarding", which means that food is full of hoarding.
5. Long face: long life.
Also known as longevity noodles, eat it in the New Year and wish you a long life. All pasta in ancient times were called cakes, so noodle soup was also called soup cakes at first. At first, the noodles were not rolled or pressed, but the reconciled noodles were torn into pieces by hand in the pot, similar to the practices of "crow's head" and "monkey's ear" eaten in the north. It was not until the Tang Dynasty that noodles were rolled with chopping boards that long noodles, short noodles, dry noodles, plain noodles, meat noodles and dried noodles gradually appeared.