Fish

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Written By Alice Gina ︳17022 reads ︳Hong kong  ︳updated: October 17,2020 1:12 pm

        Fish is an indispensable dish for the Spring Festival Eve dinner because "fish" sounds like "surplus" or "abundant" in Chinese. It is for this reason that fish is given as a gift to friends and relatives during the Spring Festival period.  It is said that this symbolic meaning originated from traditional Chinese culture. The Chinese people have the tradition of thrift. They believe that the more they save,  the safer they feel. Today, although people become richer, they still regard thrift as a praiseworthy virtue.