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Wedding menu

The banquet menu of the wedding banquet has no fixed form, and generally includes: auspiciousness (stir-fried powder), happy New Year's Eve (boiled shrimp), good news in spring (Yuanyang chicken), growing old together (soup with gingko streaky pork), sinking fish and falling geese (fish chicken soup), Qi Fei (steamed white dove) and golden-waisted pregnant prince (cashew nuts).

Wedding menu

The menu number of the wedding banquet should be even. Usually eight dishes represent wealth, ten dishes represent perfection, and twelve dishes represent monthly happiness.

Weddings are usually held on the eighth, eighteenth and twenty-eighth day of the second lunar month. Homophony should be sent, and the meaning of auspiciousness should be sent.

The name of the dish is also to choose auspicious words as far as possible to bless the new couple, to please the guests psychologically and to set off the atmosphere.