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What do you eat in your hometown?

4hw.com.cn: New Year's Eve dinner is the most abundant and important meal in a year. The whole family is eating the new year's Eve dinner in a happy way. What kind of food do you have in your hometown? Here's a list of new year's Eve meals from all over the country. Let's have a look.

Menu of new year's Eve dinner in 2019 Spring Festival

Northeast China

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East China

Central China

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Southwest China

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The new year's Eve dinner is fastidious

Eating dumplings at the turn of the year

The custom of eating dumplings during the Spring Festival was quite popular in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Dumplings are usually made before 12 p.m. on New Year's Eve and eaten at midnight. This is the beginning of the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar. Eating dumplings means "Geng Sui Jiao Zi." Zi means "Zi Shi", which is homonymous with "Jiao". The shape of dumplings is like Yuanbao, which is called "Attracting Wealth". Dumplings are filled with stuffing, which is convenient for people to pack all kinds of auspicious things into the stuffing to express their expectation for the new year.

Rising step by step, eating New Year cake

New year's cake, also known as' New Year's cake ', is homonymous with' high year by year ', implying that people's work life is improving year by year. It is said that in the early days, New Year cake was used for sacrificing gods at midnight and for ancestors during the lunar new year. Later, it became food for the Spring Festival. New Year cake is mostly made of glutinous rice flour. There are many kinds of rice cakes, such as white rice cake in the north, yellow rice cake in the north, Shuimo rice cake in the south of the Yangtze River, and red turtle rice cake in Taiwan.

I eat fish every year

On New Year's Eve, every family has a fish on their dinner table. Fish has a homonym of "Yu" and "Yu" every year. It's auspicious and festive. There are a lot of fish dishes in the north and south of China, such as' poached crucian carp 'in Jiangsu cuisine,' fried minnow 'in Wusuli cuisine,' petaled crucian carp 'in Sichuan cuisine,' fried perch ball 'in Guangdong cuisine,' Qiyang pen fish 'in Hunan cuisine,' vinegar pepper fish 'in Beijing cuisine,' Korean silver carp 'in Tianjin cuisine, and' baisong salmon 'in Northeast cuisine. ​​​​​​​

What are the essential dishes for new year's Eve dinner

fish

It means more than one year. The fish on the dinner are complete

Yuanbaorou

In fact, it's braised pork. It's just pork with bones. It tastes better

Yuanzi

Yuanzi's way of doing things is different everywhere, some sweet potato flour, some meat and vegetables, but all represent the meaning of reunion

cake

It's a symbol of step-by-step height. It's something to eat on New Year's Eve and the morning of the first day of the new year. There are many kinds of steamed cakes, ice-cream cakes and so on

Chinese cabbage

Most of them are made into dumplings in the north, and cabbage in the south is also a seasonal dish

Fans or noodles

Because both of them are very long, the most impressive is the southern fried noodles with shredded carrots, which means a long time