I'm surprised to be greeted Happy Birthday today because it's not really my birthday. Tradition has it that the seventh day of the Chinese New Year is the day human beings were created. "Ren Ri" or the Date of Man is celebrated as everyone's birthday or common man's birthday.
This is the best day to do Lo Hei ( Yusheng ) or Prosperity Toss. People get together to mix and toss as high as possible ( more abundance ) all the ingredients.
I have tried this a few times and I enjoyed doing it. While mixing and tossing, you have to say all the good things. When we did it the other day, I was amused to hear my Manager said "good bonus this year", "obedient children". While eating I told my French colleague, the Lo Hei ingredients have similarities to that of Western salad. There are vegetables, sauce, crackers that is equivalent to croutons. The taste is completely different, though.
Wikipedia article says:
This is the best day to do Lo Hei ( Yusheng ) or Prosperity Toss. People get together to mix and toss as high as possible ( more abundance ) all the ingredients.
I have tried this a few times and I enjoyed doing it. While mixing and tossing, you have to say all the good things. When we did it the other day, I was amused to hear my Manager said "good bonus this year", "obedient children". While eating I told my French colleague, the Lo Hei ingredients have similarities to that of Western salad. There are vegetables, sauce, crackers that is equivalent to croutons. The taste is completely different, though.
Wikipedia article says:
Yusheng, yee sang or yuu sahng (Chinese: 鱼生; pinyin: yúshēng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hî-seⁿ or hû-siⁿ), or Prosperity Toss, also known as lo hei (Cantonese for 撈起 or 捞起) is a Teochew-style rawfish salad. It usually consists of strips of raw fish (most commonly salmon), mixed with shredded vegetables and a variety of sauces and condiments, among other ingredients. Yusheng literally means "raw fish" but since "fish (鱼)" is commonly conflated with its homophone "abundance (余)", Yúshēng (鱼生) is interpreted as a homophone for Yúshēng (余升) meaning an increase in abundance. Therefore, yusheng is considered a symbol of abundance, prosperity and vigor.
While versions of it are thought to have existed in China, the contemporary version is created and popularised[citation needed] in the 1960s amongst the ethnic Chinese community and its consumption has been associated with Chinese New Year festivities in Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore.
Happy Birthday everyone!!!
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