20 Auspicious Foods for New Year’s Eve and Day and the Symbolism
Traditions surrounding the New Year are not limited to just decor, but what you put in your body has just as much importance. Here are 20 auspicious foods to eat on New Years’ Eve and Day and what they symbolize.
- Fish: abundance (typically served on New Year’s eve)
- Long grain rice: long life
- Oranges/mandarins: gold plus good health and long life.
- Oysters: prosperous business, good things
- Peaches: longevity
- Pineapple: prosperity
- Pomegranates: children
- Sticky rice balls: symbolizing the family staying together and close
- Noodles: longevity (they should not be cut), long life to the elders
- Chicken: Prosperity and family unity
- Prawns: life filled with laughter and joy
- Duck: if looking for fertility
- Mixed Vegetables: corn for growth, lotus seeds and roots for a full wallet and many sons, black mushrooms for longevity, golden lily buds and/or cashew nuts for wealth, clams or scallops for the opening of new horizons, and white cabbage for 100 types of prosperity luck
- Sweet desserts: symbolizing sweet endings
- Persimmons: happiness and wealth
- Tangerines with leaves intact: long lasting relationships that are fruitful and multiply (as in having children)
- Circular candy tray: candy for sweet, circular for togetherness
- Lettuce: gaining fresh new money
- Celery: symbolizes perseverance and the capacity to work hard
- Dried seaweed, known as “faat choy”: increasing wealth
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