During the Spring Festival and Chinese New Year, the indispensable dish on people's table is pig's trotters, which is also called "get rich", which means that you can scratch after eating pig's trotters and wish you more wealth and become richer and happier in the coming year. In ancient China, trotters also implied to be no.1. In ancient times, people often sent some pig's trotters to imperial examination candidates, wishing them to be no.1. Legend has it that from the time of the Tang Dynasty, the Jinshi in palace examination agreed with each other that if one of them became an official and became a leader in the future, this person would ask the calligrapher of the same branch to inscribe the Big Wild Goose Pagoda with a red pen. Since then, whenever someone rushed for the exam, relatives and friends gave him some pig's trotters.
Getting rich is one of the favorite auspicious dishes in Guangdong.