Preparations are underway for the Lunar New Year at 88 Marketplace in Chinatown, where shoppers find groceries, decorations and things to bring in good luck.
It’s the Year of the Rabbit in the Lunar New Year calendar. The color red is everywhere: lanterns, candies and red envelopes filled with money are given to children and young single adults.
Families will gather to share dinners that include symbolic foods like fish, which represents abundance. Other foods such as dumplings and oranges represent money or prosperity. Tradition also dictates that the house should be clean to welcome company. But according to superstition, do not clean on the actual new year, which is Sunday, or you will sweep away the good luck.It is tradition to eat dumplings within the first 14 days of Chinese New Year because the represent "money bags" or wealth. Dumpling Daughter author Nadia Liu Spellman and her mother show how to make dumplings from scratch.The relatively new store is Chicago's largest Chinese supermarket.
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