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Celebrations » Chinese New Year » Food
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Chinese New Year Food |
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Importance of food in Chinese society, it is not astonishing that food plays a vital role in Chinese New Year celebrations. "Lucky" foods are served during the two week Chinese New Year party, also called the Spring fair.
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Food is extremely important tradition on the occasion of Chinese New Year. Families and friends come together for big feasts. Before they eat, they put their food on alters and make donate to the gods. The Chinese cheer each other on having passed through another year and dinner together. Evening feast is the most imperative family occasion of the year.
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raw fish salad for good fortune; "fai-hai" an eatable angel hair-like seaweed for wealth and dumplings boiled in water to improve a long-lost good wish for the family.
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Chinese New Year Food RecipesNew Year's Eve feast is generally a dinner of symbolic seafood and dumplings. These contain prawns for energy, dry oysters for all things fine;
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Everybody wears red to ward off wicked spirits and not wears the black and white which symbolize death and grief. For additional symbolism, the fish is served complete, with head and tail connect, this is symbolize the fine beginning and ending for the coming year. Food may have unique importance during Chinese New Year because of the system the Chinese word for it sounds.
In the Chinese new year season sweet, steamed cakes that are so trendy. Cakes like as clammy Rice Cake have symbolic importance on many levels. Their sugariness symbolizes a wealthy, sweet life, while the layers symbolize growing abundance for the coming year. Finally, the round figure signifies family gathering.
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