The meaning of eating, in some special day, a special kind of food in more or less amount

In the different places of the world take place some events like the New Year. Depending on the day that people celebrate, they eat a dish or another.

In China people eat eight, ten or twelve dishes of food at New Year. It means double the luck. A lot of food at New Year has a special meaning. Seaweed (sheets of dried Porphyra used in soups or to wrap sushi) means good luck and long noodles mean long life. They eat vegetables and don't use knives to cut things, if you use them; it means the end of your good luck.

In Russia, people put a lot of food on the table; it means that the New Year will be happy and plentiful. At 11.59 o'clock people open champagne and wait for the clock to strike twelve. Then they make a toast and they wish good luck and happiness for everyone.

In Spain people eat twelve grapes, one with each chime of the clock at midnight. It means good luck for the New Year.

But I have to tell you that it's difficult to eat twelve grapes in twelve second, people usually have a mouth full of grapes at the end. Surely it has happened you and I recommend you changing the grapes for something sweeter and smaller.

I hope you write your experience!