What are the traditional dishes for New Year's Eve?

1, the traditional New Year's Eve dinner is usually four cold dishes and eight hot dishes. There are no special rules for the four cold dishes, depending on personal preference. The eight hot dishes are generally four meats and four vegetables. The four meat dishes are chicken, duck and fish. The four vegetarian dishes are Chinese cabbage, celery, leek and tofu.

2. Among the eight hot dishes of the twelve-course traditional New Year's Eve, chicken means that the golden rooster announces the dawn and has good luck; Chunjiang plumbing duck prophet, so duck means spring; Fish means more than a year; Meat symbolizes prosperity.

3. Among the four vegetarian dishes of traditional 12 cuisine, "Cai" and "Cai" are homophonic, and Chinese cabbage means making a fortune; Celery symbolizes hard work and wealth; Leek symbolizes eternal wealth; The homonym of "rotten" and "rich" in tofu means that life is rich.

4. Twelve dishes also symbolize eating and drinking for twelve months of the year, and having plenty of food and clothing.

Extended data

The annual New Year's Eve dinner is a big meal that the whole family should mobilize. Every household will put on rare or auspicious dishes on weekdays: there are usually chicken (meaning planned), fish (meaning more than a year), glutinous rice balls (meaning reunion), lotus roots (meaning cleverness) and other dishes for good luck in the New Year.

This is also the expectation of a better life in the coming year. On the New Year's Eve, what you eat is joy, what you taste is affection, and what you smell in the delicious rice is the taste of home. The annual New Year's Eve dinner is extremely important to China people. The whole family respected and loved each other, and sat around the dining table happily.