22 recipes for weddings in rural areas

The number of menus for rural wedding banquets should be even numbers. In general wedding customs, the number of dishes is an even number, and usually eight dishes symbolize wealth, ten dishes symbolize perfection, and twelve dishes symbolize happiness every month. Moreover, the wedding days are usually chosen on the eighth, eighteenth and twenty-eighth days of the double lunar month, implying the auspicious meaning of "if you want to have good fortune, you must never leave eight, add eight to eight, and make another good fortune".

1. Eight cold dishes: roasted bones, fried chicken, red duck, wind fish, sting skin, colored eggs, mushrooms and celery.

2. Eight hot dishes: Ruyi sea cucumber, eight-treasure crispy duck, flower-stuffed mushrooms, three fresh sea balls, lotus chicken minced meat, first-grade jujube lotus, unicorn gift, and family joy.

Dishes should be named with auspicious words as much as possible to express good wishes for the couple, to psychologically please the guests and enhance the atmosphere. For example, we can name the pearl shrimps as Flying Together, the fish balls in milk soup, we can name them as Fish and Water, and the red dates, longan, lotus seeds and peanut soup as Zaosheng Takako. For couples, we usually name them after Yuanyang, such as: Yuanyang Fish Fillet, Yuanyang Chicken Soup, Yuanyang Cake, etc. to express our wishes for harmony and happiness to the newlyweds. In the naming of dishes, names such as Two Dragons Playing with Pearls, One Dragon Panzhu, and Two Phoenixes Chaoyang are relatively taboo.