Americans eat Turkey on Thanksgiving. What is a must-have on the dinner table for Chinese New Year and other important festival? For a lot of Chinese families, steamed whole fish is a classic dish in Chinese home cooking. Steamed fish is also a dish that represents wealth and good fortune. In Chinese, the character for fish (鱼, yu) has the same pronunciation as that for “surplus” (余, yu), which indicates that a family has a surplus of wealth and food at the end of the year. So fish has become an indispensable dish for the Spring Festival.

来源：美国新泽西城市大学孔子学院