Chinese people eat foods with the symbols of good luck, prosperity, and happiness during the Chinese New Year.

Fish

Fish is 【小题1】 (common) eaten for New Year’s dinner throughout the country. The Chinese word “fish” sounds like the word for “yu”, 【小题2】 means always having more than you wish. It is custom that the fish 【小题3】 (cook) with its head and tail to ensure a good start and finish.

Chicken

Chicken is a necessary dish on the table because the 【小题4】 (pronounce) of “chicken” in Chinese is the same as that of “jí”. And a chicken served wholly in some places 【小题5】 (bear) the meaning of happiness. So Chinese people eat chicken in the hope of good luck.

Pork

In the countryside of China, it is a tradition to kill a pig for the Spring Festival 【小题6】 (comfort) a year’s hard work. People regard eating pork at family reunion dinners 【小题7】 a symbol of a rich life in the next year.

Shrimp(虾)

Your mouth will look like you are saying “hahaha” when 【小题8】 (say) shrimp (“xiā” in Chinese). People eat shrimp at this most important dinner of the year just to wish for a happy life for 【小题9】 coming new year.

The lunar New Year 2024 is coming, try these traditional 【小题10】 (dish) with promising meanings and have good fortune in the new year.

Little New Year (Chinese: Xiaonian), usually a week 【小题1】 the lunar New Year, falls on Feb 2 this year. It is also known as the Festival of the Kitchen God, the God 【小题2】 oversees the moral character of each household.

There are numerous customs 【小题3】 (associate) with honoring the Kitchen God and determining the date of Little New Year. The date of this holiday 【小题4】 (assign) sometimes according to location, with people in northern China celebrating it on the twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month, 【小题5】 people in southern China celebrating it on the twenty-fourth.

In one of 【小题6】 (distinctive) traditions of the Little New Year is the 【小题7】 (burn) of a paper image of the Kitchen God, sending the god’s spirit to Heaven 【小题8】 (report) on the family’s conduct over the past year. The Kitchen God then is welcomed back to 【小题9】 home through the pasting of a new paper image of him beside the stove. From this vantage point, the Kitchen God will oversee and protect the household for another year.

The 【小题10】 (offering) to the Kitchen God include pig’s head, fish, sweet bean paste, melons, fruit, boiled dumplings, barley sugar, and Guandong candy.

In Beijing this weekend, several young ladies in flowing clothes became the center of attention. They invited passers-by 【小题1】 (complete) ancient Chinese poems written on a board, and people 【小题2】 made it would get a flower. The ladies are hanfu lovers from a club whose aim is to spread the culture of hanfu, a style of clothing 【小题3】 (traditional) worn by the Han people. “We 【小题4】 (hold) several similar events recently in some big cities,” said Fu Jiamei, one of the activity’s 【小题5】 (organizer). “We hope that more people will understand the beauty of hanfu and the culture behind it,” she added.

“The growing popularity of hanfu 【小题6】 the young people comes from their increasing interest in traditional Chinese culture and 【小题7】 (they) desire to wear something Chinese to show their cultural identity,” said Gao Wenjing, 【小题8】 expert at Tsinghua University Art Museum. Gao believes that many young people love hanfu as a result of increased cultural 【小题9】 (confident), while the love for hanfu, in turn, helps them to learn more about Chinese culture and history. “This is 【小题10】 (meaning),” she said.