Spring Rolls — Wealth

春卷——财富

Spring rolls (春卷 Chūnjuǎn /chwnn- jwen/) get their name because they are traditionally eaten during the Spring Festival. It is a dish especially popular in East China: Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Fujian, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, etc.

春卷是春节期间吃的传统食物，故此得名。春卷在中国东部很受欢迎：江西、江苏、上海、福建、广州、深圳、香港等。

Spring rolls are a Cantonese dim sum dish of cylindrical-shaped rolls filled with vegetables, meat, or something sweet. Fillings are wrapped in thin dough¹ wrappers, then fried, when the spring rolls are given their golden-yellow color.

春卷是一种广式点心，用薄面皮把蔬菜、肉或甜馅包成圆柱形的卷，然后油炸至金黄色。（寓意：黄金万两）

Glutinous² Rice Cake — a Higher Income or Position

年糕——更高的收入或职位

In Chinese, glutinous rice cake (年糕 Niángāo /nyen-gaoww/) sounds like it means "'getting higher year-on- by year"'. The main ingredients of niangao are sticky rice, sugar, chestnuts³, Chinese dates, and lotus leaves.

在中文里，“年糕”的发音同“年高”，寓意“年年高”。年糕的主要原料是糯米、糖、栗子、枣和荷叶。