The origin and allusions of eating fish in Chinese New Year.

Northerners must eat fish for Chinese New Year, and for more than one year.

Dehua folk festivals, there should be fish in the family banquet. Among the three animals "meat, fish and eggs" that sacrifice to God, fish is essential. There is a reason why people attach so much importance to fish.

"Dead Body" records that "there is plenty of water in the world, and people teach them to fish". The reason is that the speed of fish reproduction is beyond the reach of ordinary animals on land. Ancient times were sparsely populated, and fish was an inexhaustible natural product of our ancestors.

There is a word "horizontal" in Chinese characters composed of "fish". For marriage or for men and women. During the Yin and Shang Dynasties, the word "horizontal" in bronze inscriptions was made according to the intersection of two fish. The word "Heng" uses fish to form an intuitive image, which contains the symbolic meaning of acacia and reproduction. In Shuang Yutu with a long history, there are auspicious words such as "descendants of Changyi" and "descendants of Junyi". Two fish are used to show the meaning of gender matching and making friends. Because the belly of fish is full of children, it is extremely fertile, so fish is regarded as the mascot of pairing reproduction, which means "having enough food and clothing". In feudal society, the traditional concept of the Chinese nation is that there are many children, many fish and many children, and the reproduction is very fast. People regard fish as the idol of reproduction, which also brings the reproductive culture of fish. Therefore, there are Shuang Yutu in the paper-cut for people to paste at home.

Now the last course of Dehua banquet is fish. "Fish" and "fish" are homophonic, meaning that life is rich and money is more than enough. Eating fish in the New Year means more than one year, which not only contains people's expectations for wealth, but also places their hopes for the prosperity of future generations. The custom of people eating fish can be said to be the oldest and most widespread.