What food should be eaten on New Year’s Eve to bring good luck and fortune?

What food should be eaten on New Year’s Eve to bring good luck and fortune?
Chinese cuisine has always been praised by other countries, and China has a variety of delicious food during every festival. So what food can be eaten on New Year's Eve to bring good luck and fortune? It’s the end of the year before we know it. So what should we pay attention to at the end of the year? The Fortune Teller website will help you understand all the matters concerning the 2018 Chinese New Year and New Year’s Eve.

What food should be eaten on New Year’s Eve to bring good luck and fortune?

Dumplings <br /> are one of China's traditional foods. Also known as flatbread or boiled bun. In ancient times, there were only wontons but no dumplings. Later, wontons were made into crescent shapes and became dumplings. During the Tang Dynasty, the custom of eating dumplings had spread to remote areas of China. On New Year's Eve, as soon as the clock strikes twelve, people start eating dumplings, because this is the hour of Zi, which represents the arrival of the alternation of the old and the new year.
Yuanxiao <br /> Also known as glutinous rice balls, it is more common in the south. It is made by rolling glutinous rice into a round shape (different flavors of fillings can be added to it), and then put into a pot to cook, which symbolizes reunion. Yuanxiao is usually served as breakfast or the main dish of New Year’s Eve dinner. It is a very popular delicacy in restaurants, hotels and at home.
In many places, people eat some side dishes with the New Year's Eve dinner in order to bring good luck. Eat dates (early spring), eat persimmons (everything goes well), eat almonds (happiness comes), eat tofu (family portrait), eat three fresh vegetables (three yangs bring good luck), eat peanuts (eternal youth), eat rice cakes (rice cakes, rice cakes, getting taller every year)... Of course, the variety of New Year’s Eve dinner is even richer, with chicken, duck, fish, meat, delicacies from land and sea, almost all the best dishes you can see in a year are on the table.
Rice Cake <br /> The custom of eating rice cake during the Spring Festival originated in the Song Dynasty and flourished in the Ming Dynasty. Eating rice cakes, which has the auspicious meaning of "higher and higher every year", is interpreted as meaning promotion every year.
Fish <br /> There are some rules for eating fish during the Spring Festival, which indicates that there will be plenty every year, so eating fish during the Spring Festival is a custom of old Beijingers.
Wontons <br /> Eating wontons during the New Year symbolizes a new beginning. Legend has it that Pangu created the world and made "the light and clear air float up to become the sky, and the heavy and turbid air condense down to become the earth", ending the chaotic state and giving rise to the four corners of the universe. Furthermore, the word "wonton" is a homonym of "hun tun", which means a full granary of grain.

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