其实是依据地方和籍贯。广东人收官时会买鸭头、海南人是从来不用鸭，原因是鸭叫的声音不好听。通常鸡鱼猪，虾谐音是死，但是还是有人拜。牛是忠心。
Why are offerings generally fruits, a chicken, roasted pig or sheep, and not cows and ducks?
It depends on one’s dialect or hometown. People in Guangdong, for example, will buy duck heads during the harvest season, while people in Hainan never use ducks because they do not like the sound of their quacking. Generally, people offer chickens, fish, pigs, and shrimp, even though the word for shrimp sounds like “death” in Chinese. Some people offer cows, which symbolize loyalty.
