The Food:
Food prepared for Chinese New Year:
Year Cake - getting promotion every year!
Turnip (White Radish) Cake - good beginning!
Spring Candy - to welcome the arrival of Spring!
Melon Seed - a lot of children
Lotus Seed - having children continuously
Peanut - longevity
Large Tangerine - big luck and big profit (金橘子, jinju)
Spring roll - gold bar
Dumplings - silver ingot (餃子, jiǎozi)
Fish - having surplus every year (魚, yú)
Dragon eye (longan) - wealth and family reunion
Dates - having intelligent children soon
Hair seaweed - having a jockpot
Treasure bar - full of gold and jewelry
恭喜發財
Gōngxǐ fācái
"Congratulations and be Prosperous"
While the first two words of this phrase had a much longer historical significance, in practical terms involve surviving the harsh winter conditions.
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