What is the best thing to eat at a reunion dinner on New Year's Eve?

You can eat some other auspicious food, such as dumplings, fish.

The reunion dinner on the 30th day of the Lunar New Year is very sumptuous, and of course, there is no shortage of chicken. On the night of the New Year's Eve, many people in many places in the dinner, the first food on the table is chicken, eating chicken means "great luck"; chicken, and have "eat chicken" meaning, so many places in the New Year's Eve must have chicken on the table.

"Chicken" and auspicious "Ji" homophonic, the Chinese people believe that eating chicken represents good luck. New Year's chicken is essential to this delicacy, and in Guangdong New Year's chicken are eaten in a more complete chicken, chicken means good luck, chicken wings, meaning wings to fly, flying, eating the whole family has a "family reunion" meaning. So everyone will coincidentally choose to eat chicken, hoping that in the new year, everyone can be safe and healthy.

The Chinese have a saying that "no chicken no feast", so no matter how big or small the feast, chicken is an indispensable important dishes, the New Year's Eve dinner is no exception. Chicken has the meaning of "having a plan", which means having a plan to make money and turning misfortune into good fortune. There are many ways to make chicken, for example, Sichuan and Chongqing regions like to make spicy chicken, Guangdong region likes to eat pork belly chicken, white chicken, chicken are different flavors around the world.

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Dumplings are an indispensable delicacy on New Year's Eve, and they are very easy to eat, and smaller dumplings are very addictive to eat in one bite. Eating dumplings on New Year's Eve is also our traditional* custom, with the intention of attracting wealth and prosperity as well as the transition from the old to the new. Dumplings are a cultural heritage, is the New Year's Eve can not be missing food, for many people, New Year's Eve does not eat dumplings, this year will not be perfect, right?

Eating dumplings has the meaning of celebration and reunion, in addition, the shape of the dumplings is similar to the Yuanbao, so eating dumplings on the New Year's Eve is also the meaning of "inviting wealth into the treasure". Eat dumplings on the New Year's Eve, the filling is also very delicate. For example, leek-filled dumplings mean "long, long, long time" and "long fortune".

Dumplings stuffed with Chinese cabbage mean "swinging money". Many northeasterners love to eat dumplings stuffed with sauerkraut, which means "counting wealth". Celery dumplings represent hard work and wealth. Dumplings stuffed with fish represent the meaning of "year after year" and so on.