What does it mean to just make fish heads for the New Year?

The fish head represents a head and a tail, and there are more than one year. When eating New Year's Eve, or other festivals and banquets, you should serve a whole fish, not all of it, to express the sustenance of more fish every year. In some places, when eating fish on New Year's Eve, we should leave the head and tail until the beginning of next year to express our wishes for the beginning and end of the new year.

The implication of fish

Fish is homophonic with fish, so fish symbolizes wealth. Paying attention to offering fish at the end of the year and taking advantage of the opportunity of abundant fish every year is a totem worship of fish. In the eyes of literati, the free swimming of fish is a symbol of spiritual freedom.

The shapes and lines of fish, as well as the shapes and lines of fish scales and fish tails, are widely used in traditional jewelry in China. They are not only lively and interesting, but also full of love for life. They symbolize happiness, prosperity, marriage and love, happiness, bright future and luck. Fish have a particularly strong reproductive ability, which caters to the expectations of the traditional people in China for a prosperous and happy life.

The natural phenomenon that fish can't live without water is also the emotional expression of the joy of fish and water, which places the love of men and women, the love of husband and wife and the joy of husband and wife. The mythical story Yue Longmen and Carp refers to the story of a fish leaping onto the Longmen to ascend to heaven, which expresses people's good wishes for a better life and a better career.