Vegetables - Spring, Wealth

Vegetables - Spring, Wealth

Chinese New Year's reunion dinner menu is not complete without vegetables. Vegetables signify 'spring', 'renewal', 'energy', 'progress', and 'wealth'. There are several traditional vegetables, each of them symbolizes something specific.

Lettuce: In Chinese and Cantonese, a word for 'lettuce' sounds a lot like a word for 'becoming wealthy'. https://amzn.to/47xF895

Baby bok choy: It can symbolize 'wealth' and 'luck' for the year as well as 'good fortune' for the future. https://amzn.to/48nWdnb

Gailan (Cantonese) or jielan (Mandarin), i.e. Chinese broccoli, signifies 'harmony'. https://amzn.to/3vzt3D0