| There are few festivities celebrated around the world | | | | fish, and pomelo. In addition to success whole fish and |
| on the same grand scale that the Chinese New Year | | | | pomelo are believed to bring abundance and |
| is celebrated. This is an occasion that affects people | | | | togetherness (as in marriage or romance) during the |
| all around the world. The celebrations are quite exotic | | | | coming year. |
| and a lot of fun for everyone involved. One thing that | | | | Chicken is the main course if happiness is the goal. In |
| many outsiders may not appreciate is that the majority | | | | addition, chicken is associated with marriage, particularly |
| of the aspects of the Chinese New Year celebrations | | | | when consumed with foods, which are considered to |
| have a very specific purpose and connotation. Even | | | | be dragon foods, such as lobster. |
| the food. | | | | Those wanting children in the not too distant future |
| Whether you are Chinese are not, I 'm sure that you | | | | ought to add eggs, seeds (such as watermelon seeds) |
| could use a bit of good fortune to make things run a | | | | and pomelo - especially the last two, if you want a |
| little more smoothly in your life. | | | | couple of children. |
| When it comes to cooking for a Chinese New Year | | | | Finally, if good luck is what you most need, try to add a |
| celebration there are a few things you have to bear in | | | | tangerine or some seaweed to your plate on this |
| mind. The foodstuffs that are cooked each have their | | | | auspicious day. If your run of luck has been really |
| very own significance and a specific reason for being | | | | atrocious recently, you may want to double up on your |
| prepared. | | | | helping of both. |
| Dumplings are believed to bring wealth in the New | | | | The Internet contains loads of delicious recipes to help |
| Year to those who eat them on this particular day. Of | | | | you commemorate the Chinese New Year as |
| course, wealth is something that most people want to | | | | traditionally as you can. Recipes for foods such as |
| have and there are many means of doing so. Other | | | | Jiaozi (Chinese noodles) and egg rolls are to be found |
| foods that symbolize the attainment of wealth on the | | | | online and they will go some way towards creating the |
| Chinese New Year are bamboo shoots, black moss | | | | right ambiance. Add a few lettuce wraps and longevity |
| seaweed, egg rolls, and oranges. This is just the | | | | noodles and you will have a good starting point for a |
| beginning of the lesson in the symbolic nature of dishes | | | | Chinese New Year meal. |
| for the Chinese New Year. | | | | The only other thing you require then to make your |
| Longevity or long life is something else that the | | | | Chinese New Year celebrations go with a bang (quite |
| Chinese famously yearn for. Eternal youth some may | | | | literally) is fireworks. The Chinese New Year would not |
| call it. The secret, they say, to a long life is the | | | | be the same without them, so choose your food well, |
| consumption of the right food as part of the New | | | | either buy it or cook it (or both) and then let off your |
| Year festivities. Those foods include: noodles, Chinese | | | | fireworks safely for a great winters evening's |
| garlic, chives, and peanuts. | | | | entertainment. |
| Prosperity is attributed to foods such as lettuce, whole | | | | |