We Chinese name the Eve before our new year's day "Chu Xi Ye", the family reunion, set on fireworks, fires in the open air or at yard to drive the monster "Nian" or stay together to talk and pray for a better new year. Today what I wanna share is our feast in "Chu Xi" and "The Lunar New Year". "Yu" is the keyword of our Spring Festival feast, in English what I tell is "Fish". In even every family's Spring Festival feast you can find the same dishes the Fish. Whatever food in our warehouse or money in the bank are "Yu"(Savings), what I am trying to say is "savings" and "fish" pronounce the same in Chinese as "Yu", in other words Fish stands for harvest, happiness and good luck. That's the reason "Yu"(Fish) is the most important menu in Spring Festival. After you know why we eat Fish in Spring Festival, I wanna tell how we eat Fish: First, we Chinese usually eat fish in whole, we don't cut it in to pieces to cook; The second is we always point the respectable or the elder in the family the grandfather with the Fish Head, usually the grandfather will let a grandchild to eat the Fish Head and then the Fish Tail, that means the grandfather love his grandchild and wanna him to do things with a start and completion. The last but not the least, if you are a guest in Spring Festival you'd better know your host is traditional or not, if he's very traditional my adice for you is don't touch the Fish Dishes because you can eat up the host's good luck of the following year. I heard of using "Wood Fish" to cast guests when Spring Festival, that because the host wanna "Yu" last longer and don't embarrass his guests eaten the Fish up. In Xiangshan County of Ningbo, there is "Fish Dance", very like the Dragon Dance is impressive. "Catfish" in Pinyin is "Nian Yu", it's very lucky which means every year with harvest and savings. Lotus in Pinyin is also "Lian" , so there is the picture below a kind of "Nian Hua" . Before the coming "Tiger" New Year, I bless our customers, friends and families "Nian Nian You Yu, Nian Nian Da Ji". I almost forget that 2010 China Lunar New Year's Day is Valentine's Day, so I hope every pair of lovers are sweet and happy. "Nian Nian You Yu" by Yang Liuqing is the most favorites by Chinese. Read more articals about fish or fishing in China. You can load http://www.jigreels.com/fishing-news.html