What is the main dish on your dinner table on New Year's Eve?

It is necessary to eat fish in the New Year, which means more than one year. Therefore, every family should buy fish during the Spring Festival, and it is silver carp. Of course, people who like to eat fish in the New Year will also buy other better fish to cook, such as mandarin fish and crucian carp, which stand for "more wealth" and "more luck" respectively. Fish naturally becomes the protagonist on the Chinese New Year table.

The ancients said: "The taste of fish is the taste of hundreds of flavors." Fish is rich in protein, which is neither oily nor greasy. Adults and children should eat more fish, which not only strengthens nutrition, but also helps to enhance physical fitness and intelligence. More importantly, the homonym "surplus" of fish means surplus, and silver carp means more than one year, wealth and happiness. There is also a saying that fish can keep a family safe: in ancient times, people would put fish patterns on the doors and cabinets of their homes to ward off evil spirits. Therefore, fish has become an essential main course for every household in the New Year.

The practice of eating fish in the New Year is very particular, that is, the fish should be complete, without scales and gills. In the process of frying, fish should not be destroyed, which means perfection and wealth. After the fish is served, the fish head should be aimed at the most distinguished guest or the oldest elder in the family to show respect. The fish's stomach is facing the learned man, which means to boast that the other person has ink in his stomach and is learned. Fishtail should be aimed at young people, hoping that their work and life will be like a duck to water and full of vitality.

Eating fish in the New Year is also very particular. Only the oldest person can move chopsticks first, and others can eat them. When eating fish, the fish can't be finished, which means there is still more than one year. When eating fish, you can't eat the fish head and tail, and the fish can't turn over. Avoid turning over the salted fish. Some people will save the fish cooked on the 30th of a year until the first day of the first year, thinking that it will last more than one year. I only eat braised fish for 30 nights, and it is chopped fish, which means that I am over one year old. The fish card landed and was a great success.