Dgreetings » Chinese New Year » Chinese New Year Food
 |
Chinese New Year Food |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Chinese New Year celebration is simply incomplete without Chinese New Year food – mainly focused on delicious recipes. A lot of time goes into the preparation for the New Year celebrations, with the season extending to about two weeks. In the Chinese Calendar, this is the most important of all holidays.
As a generic fact, Chinese New year food plays an important role in the New Year festivity. Feasting together with all closed ones (family and friends); the Chinese New Year’s Eve dinner is the most sought after occasion for the entire year.
|
|
Symbolic Chinese New Year food :
The main food of Chinese New Year dinner comprises mainly of seafood and dumplings. The varied items include prawns (denoting liveliness), dried oysters (indicating all good things), raw fish salad (depicts good luck), "fai-hai" (showing prosperity) and dumplings (Wishing recovery of a long-lost good wish for family). With such delicious and fulfilling food in Chinese New year, the celebrations simply help to wipe off evil spirits and avoid the negativities attached.
|
Traditional Chinese New Year Food denotes wealth, good luck, good health and long life for all those who are sitting together at the table. The food at Chinese New Year denotes the age old beliefs, which had been in use for long. Traditional Chinese New Year Food like dumplings, spring Rolls, chicken or similar other dishes could bring good wishes for the coming year.
The Chinese New year food is highly symbolized by a full chicken which denotes family togetherness and strengthens the bond. There are loads of other traditional food items which are a delight to eat and more special because of the symbolism that they portray. |
|
|
During New year, serving noodles is an age-old practice, denoting wishes for a long life. The Chinese does not cut the noodles but prefer serving uncut noodles as a traditional belief as they think cutting the noodles can bring bad luck along with it. The other item on the New Year menu is clams and spring rolls, which definitely is a good taste bud amplifier and at the same time brings along with it wealth.
Fruits are also served in abundance on Chinese New Year, important of them being oranges and tangerines. Also believed to be a symbol of wealth and luck, fruits on New Year does carry special significance.
The other important food item of Chinese New Year is fish – representing abundance. Having food together on Chinese New Year with all these symbolic food items is surely a delight as per the Chinese traditions. All these Chinese New year foods bring about a sense of togetherness and bonding among all family members.
Not only starters and main food items, there are deserts that are also served on this Chinese New year occasion. There is a range of sweet and steamed cakes (like sticky rice cake) and varied other sweet treats, denoting good things from all corners of life in the year to come.
|
|
|
