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Xiamen

New year's Eve dinner, called "eat 29 Min", most love to eat hot pot (hotpot), the "stove" family. There are "yipinguo" (the whole pot with one grid), "Yuanyang pot" (with two grids) and "four color pot" (four grids). From "yipinguo", the famous dish "Yipin Fugui" is formed. The soup is pork or chicken duck soup. The main dish is jinyuanbao (egg), yinyuanbao (pigeon egg), and the whole hoof is called "Yituan Heqi". The black thorn and cuttlefish are tied together with kelp called "Wujin Moyu", chicken and duck wings are called "Pengcheng Wanli", winter bamboo shoots are called "jiejie Gaosheng", fans are called "Fushou mianchang", fish balls, meatballs and hairy vegetables It is called "reunion and wealth", chicken head and chicken tail, fish head and fish tail are called "beginning and ending", and ham feet and feet are called "stepping up green clouds". Finally, eating long fruit means "Immortality". Eating citrus symbolizes good luck. The more hot the soup is, the better it boils. Xiamen people attach great importance to seafood, such as silver carp "surplus every year"), oysters, red shrimp, pearl clam, Wang snail, kelp and seaweed tofu ("Facai Duofu") and so on. In recent years, there are beer hotpot, tofu hotpot, meatball hotpot and assorted hotpot.

New Year cake: eat the rice cake, everything goes well, every year high, every year high, every year happy. New Year cake is also called "Nian Nian Gao", which evolved from the homonym of "sticky sticky cake". Xiamen people call the New Year cake "rice fruit". There are many kinds of sweet and salty rice cakes, including white sugar rice fruit, black sugar rice fruit, wax gourd, red dates, peanuts, etc.; the salty ones include pumpkin, radish, sweet potato, taro, pork, shrimp, dried oysters, mushrooms, scallion, etc.; in addition, there are cool rice fruit, fat rice fruit and bowl cake rice fruit.

Pancakes: in Qing Dynasty, some poets wrote poems and chanted Pancakes: "spring comes to the world as a roll", describing the pancake skin as "thin copy cutting the full moon, soft return to the thin tube", and describing the pancake filling as "numerous hidden silk strands, gluttonous and delicious". Pancake is also a great invention of Xiamen people. During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty (1522-1566), Li Chunfang, a former governor of Chaozhou, married his daughter to Cai Fuyi of Caicuo in Jinmen (at that time, Jinmen was under the jurisdiction of Tongan county). Later, Cai Fu became the governor of Yunnan, Guizhou, Huguang and governor of Guizhou Province. He was busy with his official duties, and he often forgot to eat or sleep. Mrs. Cai saw it in her eyes. She was afraid that this would damage her husband's health. So she stewed some fish, meat, shrimp, vegetables, bamboo shoots and beans with a low fire, wrapped them in dough, and put them on her husband's desk to eat and work, killing two birds with one stone. This kind of dish is called "pancake". In Xiamen dialect, "Po" and "Bo" are homonymous, so they are also called "pancakes". It spread from the government to the people, and "Lady pancakes" became "beauty pancakes".

Yuanzai: eat Yuanzi, also known as eating yuanxiao. In some places, it is called Tangyuan or tangtuan. It is said that eating Yuanxiao began at the end of the spring and Autumn period, and was called Yuanzi in the Song Dynasty. A scholar in the Song Dynasty said that this kind of food was "Shu powder wrapped with sugar, fragrant soup bath", and wrote a 16 word praise: "Tuan Tuan Shu powder, a little sugarcane frost; bath with submerged water, sweet and fragrant." Yuanzai, Xiamen, has a mixture of sweet and salty flavors, some white hearts and some stuffing. There are assorted dishes, bean paste, jujube paste, bamboo shoots and lard.

Fuzhou

Heng Chong said that as early as December 24 of the lunar calendar, people in Fuzhou were busy for the new year. According to the tradition of Fuzhou people, no animals will be killed after December 24 of the lunar calendar, so the meat to be eaten in the first month must be prepared before this. The women hang the chickens and pigs on the ceiling, and then stew them after drying, then put them in the urn and marinate them with wine and various ingredients.

Hou hengchong said that such a jar of food is not only a delicacy on the dinner table for reunion, but also can be eaten until the end of the first month.

On New Year's Eve, before the reunion dinner, people in Fuzhou have to offer sacrifices to their ancestors. Among the many offerings, Hou hengchong is most impressed by horseshoe and New Year cake. The horseshoe grows in the field and has strong vitality. It is hoped that the ancestors will protect the descendants of the people concerned by offering sacrifices to their ancestors.

Fuzhou people's new year's cake is different from the common ones in the local market. Its size is like a tray, and its taste is not the same. Therefore, every year, Fuzhou guild hall will order new year's cake for its members, so that villagers can taste the New Year cake with Fuzhou flavor.

When offering sacrifices to ancestors, the New Year cake is sliced and fried, and then placed on the offering table. People in Fuzhou attach great importance to the New Year cake. In addition to ancestor worship, the New Year cake is also a dessert on the dinner table. Even if you don't eat it, you can't do without it. In addition, red distiller's grains chicken, Fuzhou fish ball and meat swallow are also delicious food for Fuzhou people's reunion dinner.

The people of Fuzhou also have an interesting new year custom. After the reunion, parents should wipe their children's mouth with toilet paper, which means that children's words are unrestrained. If the child says something wrong, I hope the gods will not blame him.

On the first day of the lunar new year, people in Fuzhou must sacrifice to heaven before going out to pay New Year's greetings. Rice is served in a container made of bamboo strips, in which a red paper flower is inserted, and chopsticks are inserted around it, which means praying to heaven.

According to tradition, people in Fuzhou have to eat a bowl of Taiping on this day. It's a noodle line soaked in chicken soup with red lees. Two eggs are added to the noodles. Now, some people use quail eggs instead. As the name suggests, Taiping is safe to eat.

Hou hengchong remembers that the Lantern Festival of Fuzhou people is also very lively. The spirit of wandering is a big festival. The sound of drum music, the crowd and the rising and falling firecrackers push the festive atmosphere to the climax.

Hou returned to Singapore at the age of 20 in 1959. In recent decades, due to various factors, the traditional customs of Fuzhou people's new year can not be completely preserved.

Hou hengchong said that for example, many Fuzhou families have joined non Fuzhou members. In order to adapt to the eating habits and preferences of members from different places of origin, these families have to add some non Fuzhou food, which makes the food on the reunion table no longer pure Fuzhou food.

"This is the result of the change of the times. Older people in Fuzhou should not be stubborn. Under the principle of peace first, we should adapt to the times and make appropriate adjustments," he said

Zhangzhou

New year's Eve

According to Zhangzhou custom, on New Year's Eve, the whole family should get together to "surround the stove" and eat new year's Eve dinner. In addition to eating fish balls and meatballs, which symbolize the family reunion, and chicken, which means "starting a family by eating chicken", and Chinese chives with a long life span, as well as fried food, tangyuan and New Year cake with local flavor, especially eating "turtle bean paste cake" (a kind of New Year cake made by pressing a wood mold with turtle shape and wrapped with bean paste stuffing) has the meaning of prolonging life. In addition, there is a kind of salty radish rice cake, which needs to be baked over the fire and then wrapped with laver to eat. It not only has the function of dispelling the fishy smell and adjusting the taste, but also contains the wish of "good color" in the coming year.

On the first day of junior high school: "eat leftovers"

On the morning of the first day of the first month, all the family members have to eat some brown sugar noodle soup. Sugar means sweetness; noodles and thread means longevity, that is to pray for happiness and longevity of the whole family. Red paper flowers are used to sacrifice ancestors with sweet noodles and three bowls of dry rice. Red paper flowers are called "fanchunzhi", in which "spring" and "remnant" (surplus) are homonymous in dialects, implying that there is more food at home.

The breakfast is vegetarian, and the dry rice is supplemented with "perennial vegetables" (made of tofu and whole spinach, leek, mustard, etc.). The long-term dishes in Zhangzhou urban area are to peel off the thick end vegetables one leaf and one leaf (do not cut them with a knife), heat them in water and put them in a bowl to make them sour. On the eve of the new year's Eve, everyone should eat a little, and the rest should be added to the "end of the dish" of the new year's dinner. Mustard is also used to replace thick end vegetables for long-term dishes. Generally do not cook a new meal and eat the new year's Eve specially stewed rice, meaning more than every year.

Quanzhou

In Quanzhou and other areas of Southern Fujian, mustard must be on the table for the new year. Mustard is also called "long-term vegetable" in Minnan dialect. There are also some people who put "leek" on the table. The homophony of "chive" and "jiu" means longevity. The radish bowl made of radish and flour is also indispensable on the new year's table of Minnan people. Minnan people call Radish "caitou", which means "good color head". When you eat vegetables, you usually don't need to cut them with a knife. After washing the whole vegetables, you can cook them with roots to wish your parents and elders a long life.

Putian

"Do a big year" and "white forehead Spring Festival couplets" are the unique customs of Putian, Fujian Province.

Putian and Xianyou counties under the jurisdiction of Putian City belong to Xinghua army, road and government in song, yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, so they are traditionally called Xinghua. In the early morning of the first month of the lunar new year, relatives and friends come to visit each other, which is called "New Year's greetings" and say some auspicious words. This custom is the same throughout China. However, in Xinghua, the custom of "making a big year old" and pasting "white forehead Spring Festival couplets" is still followed——

\"Grow up"

In November of the 41st year of Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese invaders invaded Xinghua, killed and plundered them, and then retreated at the end of the first month of the following year. The city was full of corpses, which was terrible to see.

On the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar, people who have taken refuge abroad come back one after another. They are both happy and sad for the survivors and the dead. At this time, relatives and friends first visit each other, and then dry their tears, celebrate the Spring Festival, make up for the new year, celebrate the recovery.

Because the family did not have a big new year's day, they decided to make up for it in the fourth night of junior high school. Later, in order to commemorate that painful period of history, the folk made an appointment to celebrate the new year's Eve, the fourth day of the first month as the "New Year's Eve", also known as "making a big year" (Xianyou was in the fifth day of the first month). On the second day of the first month, the second day of the first lunar month is the "day of exploring death", which means that we do not visit each other's door to show our mourning for the bereaved relatives.

Later, because of the inconvenience of not visiting each other during the Spring Festival, I changed it to the first day of the first day of the lunar new year. If you have already visited relatives and friends' homes to pay New Year's greetings, there is no need to taboo on the second day of the first day of the new year.

\"Spring Festival couplets with white forehead"

The Spring Festival couplets all over the country are full of red, but Xinghua Spring Festival couplets have a section of two inch long white couplets, red and white, especially eye-catching.

It is said that after entering the pass, the Qing soldiers carried out a high-pressure policy and killed innocent people indiscriminately. Many families pasted white couplets for funeral. It was the Spring Festival, and the Qing government forced every family to paste red couplets to decorate "the country is peaceful and the people are safe.". When someone pastes the red couplets, they intentionally let the white couplets on the door show a small section to show their sorrow. The custom of "Spring Festival couplets with white forehead" has been handed down to this day.

Hakka people in Western Fujian

Hakka people's new year's custom of offering sacrifices to their ancestors

The new year of Hakkas begins on the 24th of the 12th lunar month and ends on the 15th day of the first lunar month. That is to say, the new year starts from the traditional "little new year". After the lunar new year, every family prepares new year's products, such as fried powder skin, rice candy, fried tofu, and the purchase of chicken, duck, fish, incense and firecrackers. In addition, it is necessary to take time to clean the courtyard, wipe the doors and windows, etc. On New Year's Eve, every family pastes couplets and new year's pictures early, and then prepares new year's Eve dinner. One of the most exquisite dishes in the new year's Eve dinner is "new year soup", which mainly includes big meat, radish, meatballs and mushrooms. Two things should be done before eating the new year's Eve dinner: one is to serve the elder with steaming "New Year's soup"; the other is to burn incense to worship ancestors and set off firecrackers. After that, a family of talented people had a happy New Year's Eve dinner. This meal must have some rice, which means that they have reached the "New Year's dinner" and have grown one year old. After a meal, the older person will give the child good luck