Generally speaking, you can cook 6 to 8 dishes or 10 dishes for the New Year's Eve, because this number is auspicious. This number 6 means smooth and smooth, and this number 8 is homophonic, indicating development in the coming year. Cooking ten dishes means perfection. However, how many dishes to cook should also be taken into account with the number of people eating at home. Some dishes are more auspicious and can be eaten at the New Year's Eve.
Eating New Year's Eve is a traditional custom in the Spring Festival. Life should have a sense of ceremony, and New Year's Eve is the best embodiment of a better life. Almost every family will show their best things on New Year's Eve. As the saying goes, "a hundred miles of different winds and customs are different", and the customs in each place are different, and this custom is more obvious because of the different regions, but the same thing is that even if everyone can't finish the New Year's Eve dinner, they will fill the table, which can symbolize that there is more than one year.
Common dishes of New Year's Eve.
1, Fish: China people pay attention to good intentions during the Spring Festival, hoping for "more than a year", so "fish" is indispensable on the table during the Spring Festival. Even the name of the fish is particularly auspicious, representing the prosperous pomfret or red-eyed silver carp, red carp, horsehead fish and so on.
2. Chicken: Eating a whole chicken on New Year's Eve means flying high and doing a lot. At the same time, it takes the homonym of "home", which means that the whole family is reunited from the chicken. In addition, whole chicken is also an indispensable tribute to ancestors in Guangdong. Eating chicken in the New Year means good luck. Because the pronunciation of the word "chicken" is similar to that of "Ji", it has become a must for New Year's Eve.
3, ribs: its shape is a paragraph, just like bamboo, so eating ribs in the New Year means steady and rising, ribs are the backbone, which also means that after eating ribs, you can stand up straight and do things.