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Chinese people have a strong family concept and always have family reunions on some important days. Family Reunion Dinner is an essential custom on New Year’s Eve. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
They usually enjoy a big feast this day. Dumpling and fish are must-eat Chinese New Year food during the Family Reunion Dinner on Eve. In some areas, people will put a coin inside one dumpling. The people who eat this dumpling will be thought to be a lucky guy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fish is another must-have dish on the table of Eve’s dinner. But it could not be eaten out because the fish means extra things by partial tone. It represents the wish for a prosperous year with abundant and even extra wealth and luck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are more delicious and meaningful Chinese New Year foods that should be on the reunion dinner table. Let\u2019s see the full list!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Chinese folklore, eating dumplings on New Year’s Eve is a major feast. “Dumpling”, also known as “Jiaozi”, means replacing the old with the new. It is also a delicacy that must be eaten in the sense of God. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The word – \u997a (jiao) means “Happy Reunion” and “Auspicious Ruyi” in Chinese traditions. As a result, eating dumplings indicates that you\u2019ll have a lucky year in the coming year.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition, dumplings resemble ingots. Eating dumplings during New Year\u2019s Eve also has the auspicious meaning of “recruiting fortune and treasure”. Dumplings generally have various fillings with different implications.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The most common chives (\u97ed\u83dc\/Ji\u01d4 C\u00e0i) filling means long-term wealth. Because \u97ed\/Jiu is a homonym of\u00a0 \u4e45\/Jiu, which means long-term in Chinese, while \u83dc\/Cai\u00a0 is a homonym of \u8d22\/Cai, which means wealth in Chinese. So the combination of \u97ed\u83dc\/Ji\u01d4 C\u00e0i has a good expectation that you\u2019ll make a lot of money in your life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Or course, this is just a blessing saying from historical customs, not assures that you\u2019ll be rich after eating chives filling dumplings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another similar example is the meat and cabbage (\u767d\u83dc\/B\u00e1i C\u00e0i) filling. \u767d\/B\u00e1i is a homonym of \u767e\/B\u01cei, meaning hundred in Chinese. With these two words together – \u767d\u83dc=\u767e\u8d22, eating meat and cabbage filling dumplings will earn a lot in the next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fish is a must-have dish on the Chinese New Year Eve\u2019s dinner. There is a saying in Chinese tradition that there is more than last year, because \u9c7c\/Yu is a homonym of \u4f59\/Yu, which means more than last year in Chinese. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you want to continue the good luck of having more than last year for at least two years, you\u2019ll have two options. One is to cook two fishes for Eve’s dinner, eat one of them and keep the other for the Chinese New Year\u2019s dish. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But if you just cook one fish for Eve’s dinner, you can eat the middle but remain the head and the tail for Chinese New Year\u2019s dishes. Both have a good meaning – you\u2019ll have more than one year after the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n