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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