New Year is a day for families to reunite, not to mention the food and cuisine. However, what "auspicious food" should be eaten in the New Year to meet the occasion and be auspicious? Here are 10 foods you shouldn't miss.
1. Rice cakes: Whether it is sweet or salty rice cakes of various flavors, they symbolize "step by step" and are one of the indispensable foods in the traditional customs of the New Year.
2. Fish: The traditional custom is that in the reunion dinner of Chinese New Year's Eve night, a fish must be prepared, and it cannot be eaten all, and the rest can symbolize "every year there is more than (fish)".
3. Pineapple: Pineapple and Min lai "Wanglai" homophony, with the meaning of wealth, prosperity, good luck, so the New Year must eat pineapple, symbolizing "good luck Wangwanglai".
4. White radish: Every winter is the season when white radish is abundant, and the Hokkien dialect calls it "vegetable head", symbolizing "good color head" (auspicious omen).
5. Orange: "Orange" is pronounced similarly to the word "Ji", symbolizing great auspiciousness; in addition, the orange skin is mostly golden yellow, with a festive taste.
6. Whole chicken: The whole chicken symbolizes "family portrait" and "head and tail".
7. Apple: symbolizes peace and peace; in addition, the skin of the apple is as bright red as ruby, smooth and round, and is also regarded as "auspicious and rich".
The apple symbolizes peace
8. Long-term dish: The leaves of the long-term dish are large and long, symbolizing "long life and a hundred years", and the traditional custom is that eating can lead to longevity.
9. Candy: The Lunar New Year is indispensable to candy and snacks, in addition to being loved by children, candy also symbolizes "eating sweet and making big money".
Candy also symbolizes "eat sweet and make a lot of money"
10. Hair cake: Hair cake takes its harmonic sound "hair", which means to make a fortune; in addition, the hair cake will produce cracks in the process of steaming, and the cracks will open more, symbolizing the more wealth in the coming year.