Given the importance of food in Chinese culture, it is not surprising that food plays a major role in Chinese New Year celebrations. "Lucky" foods are served through the two week Chinese New Year celebration, also called the Spring festival. What gives a certain food symbolic significance? Sometimes it is based on appearance.

1. Tangerines and Oranges. Displaying and eating these fruits is said to bring wealth and luck. According to the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, the tradition stems from the way the Chinese words for gold and orange sound alike, while the word for tangerine echoes luck.

The fourth sign in the zodiac, Rabbits are considered to be one of the luckiest signs. You're a Rabbit if you were born in 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, or 1999. People born in Rabbit years are thoughtful, clever, and ambitious yet cautious. Famous Rabbits include Albert Einstein, Frank Sinatra, Lewis Carroll, Cary Grant, and David Beckham.

Food offerings are a prayer or a wish and can be addressed to ancestors and other beings such as the Jade Emperor and The Kitchen God. The offering of food serves to bring ancestors and other beings in the other world closer to oneself.

At the start of the new lunar year, Chinese families come together (or tuan yuan, reunite) to celebrate the most anticipated holiday in the Eastern hemisphere, Spring Festival. CCTV reports that 150 million migrant workers in China have already begun their journey, which for many people is the only