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Unity Dinner
The Chinese New Year Dinner
The Chinese New Year’s eve dinner is believed to be the most important family ritual of the year. Food symbolizes abundance, and being together stands for family ties. Abundance, health and happiness of the family are the main focus of the New Year’s Eve dinner. It is said that if a family does not share this all-important meal of the year, the family’s love will grow cold. This is a special event in the year that sibling rivalries and family issues are set aside. Everybody is encouraged to eat well and be merry.
The Chinese New Year’s eve dinner honors both the past and current generations. Ancestors are remembered and honored. They too are included in the fast as food is offered at the family altar, especially for them. Letting the family elders eat first is a sign of respect and love. Before the family sits down to eat together, the family ancestral spirits are served the dinner first, including tea and wine, at the altar. This gesture not only pays respects to the forebears but is also a way of giving thanks. After all, it is believed that the wellness of the ancestors reflect on the family fortune.
The family dinner brings hope for the Chinese New Year. Food served also has many symbols of abundance, health and happiness.
Here are some of the courses offered for the family’s Chinese New Year eve dinner:
- Soup. Favorites are bird’s nest soupd and shark’s fin soup. The bird’s nest soup symbolizes long life and youthfulness. While shark’s fin symbolizes prosperity.
- Jai Choy is a special vegetarian dish that is most appropriate for Chinese New Year. All ingredients symbolize good fortune, long life and abundance. It has:
- dried oysters for good business
- sea moss called fat choy that mean prosperity
- Chinese black mushrooms is about getting wishes granted
- bean noodles called fun see symbolize long life
- lily buds mean 100 years of blissful union
- lotus seeds to have sons
- dried bean curd also symbolize abundance
- cloud ears are good luck
- and snow peas also bring in prosperity.
- Poultry like duck or chicken are served whole (with head and feet) to symbolize unity or wholeness. Missing body parts mean it is broken and are not good symbols, so best have it in 1 complete piece when possible.
- Long, leafy green vegetables such as Chinese broccoli and Chinese string beans are served whole, believed to bring longevity to parents.
- Fish is yu. “Yu” sounds like abundance. This dish is often served last. The head and tail should not be removed from the body to ensure good luck throughout the year. The family should also be careful to not flip the fish over. This superstition stems from the old fisherfolk belief that flipping fish over will also flip fishing boats.
- Rice or long-grain noodles are also eaten with this hearty feast.
Some of the food are deliberately left over to signify abundance through out the year. This is also convenient, as it is custom that animals cannot be killed, even for meals, on the first day of the new year.
Other Chinese New Year beliefs for the new year’s eve banquet are: All utensils and plates should be clean and unbroken. Even a small chip on a plate is not allowed, as this signifies that something will eat into the family fortune. Chopsticks should also be of equal length to represent harmony.
About the Author
Ray Ritchey is the owner of the site ChildBook.com which for over 12 years has been helping Children in the United States learn more about Chinese Culture and Language. You can read more about Chinese New Year at http://www.childbook.com We have sale on Chinese New Year books, pictures, coloring pages, poems and other resources for your child to learn about Chinese festivals while they have fun learning.
im having a big wedding with a judge instead of priest but... 10pts to best answer!?
i am having a big wedding (150+ guests) with an after party reception. since my fiance and i have two different religions (baptist and catholic) but are not religious, we decided to use a judge to marry us.
my question is:
do we have to write out what we want the judge to say? or does he/she already have things written that they are supposed to say?
can i add things for the judge to say? i wanted to do a "unity sand ceremony" and i want the judge to speak about it and during it. we also wanted to write our own vows.
is it possible to write our own vows AND also use the regular everyday vows?
would it be inappropriate to prefer a hispanic or black judge being that my fiance and i are hispanic and black?
do they marry people on any day? im getting married on a tuesday.
should i invite the judge to the reception dinner? or would he leave once he/she marrys off my fiance and i?
10 points to whoever answers ALL of these questions.
I just had the meeting wiht the judge and pretty much I learnt you can do whatever your heart desires lol. She gave us a outline and options of things she/we can say or she said we can write our own or make revisions. She gives you ideas for vows but you can also write your own if you want. She will also give you different ideas...like a hand cermony, rose ceremony or the sand ceremony and for each of those there are different options she can say about it, or you can write your own for that also lol. I think its important you get who you want at your wedding and that isnt a unreasonable request (im just imagining a caucasion asking for caucasion only...o would that fly haha) They marry on any day if u give them enough warning and depending individually on the judge. Im not inviting our judge to the reception. Its costing us $150, which is a service not a favor. She said she does more then one in day usually. If you really want her there..then go for it, but the guest list sure add up and they dont expect to be invited. congrads.
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