Food is very important in China, especially during the festival. All kinds of special food are absolutely indispensable in the festival. Although the living standard is now high, people can eat whatever they want in their daily life without waiting for the new year. But during the Chinese new year, we will still follow our festival eating customs. People in every place have different tastes, which also leads to differences in food culture. What do Nanjing people eat for the new year? This article will bring you the food customs of Nanjing new year. Nanjing People's new year food customs
Mixed Vegetable
Nanjing citizens usually fry the same vegetable dish called 'assorted dish' for the new year. It is based on winter pickled vegetables, with more than ten kinds of vegetable dishes, such as carrots, golden needles, agaric, winter bamboo shoots, white celery, yellow bean sprouts, dried tofu, thousand pieces, gluten, lotus roots, red dates and peanuts, fried in heavy oil. Assorted dishes not only taste good, but also each dish has its own meaning. Such as' shepherd's purse and & lsquo; Amass wealth & rsquo; Homophonic, the emphasis is to attract money and treasure; Carrots are red in color and have the meaning of prosperity; Lotus root symbolizes the accessibility of the road and wishes the coming year a smooth one; Pickled cucumber symbolizes continuous melons and descendants; Winter bamboo shoots symbolize the continuous growth of bamboo shoots; Portulaca oleracea, also known as Anle food in Nanjing, symbolizes peace and joy. These are all for an auspicious mouth color. These 10 kinds of vegetables should be fried in the same way, and finally mixed together. When the vegetables are cold, add sesame oil.
Make egg dumplings
Nanjing people like to make egg dumplings for the new year. The key to this dish is to make egg skin. First beat the eggs with chopsticks, and then drop a few drops of sunflower seed oil. Then pour the eggs into an iron spoon and bake them above the flame of the gas stove. A layer of egg juice in the spoon evenly covers the inner wall of the iron spoon with the rotation of the wrist, which is only half a minute, A thin egg dumpling skin is ready. Pick some meat stuffing and put it in the middle of the dumpling skin. When both sides are combined, a yellow egg dumpling is ready. It is cooked with seasoning and tastes delicious.
Braised silver carp
A big silver carp is one of the indispensable dishes for the old Nanjing people. After the silver carp is cooked, it is placed on a long plate and solemnly placed on the table. However, this dish is only a decoration and must not be eaten, because it implies' surplus every year 'and can only be eaten after the small new year (Lantern Festival). Because Yu Yu is homonymous, the rest symbolizes that in the new year, life is abundant and more than every year.
Fushou Decoction
Also known as soup, on New Year's Eve, the whole family should get together to eat Fushou soup. Fushou soup is made of 'red jujube, Fujian lotus seed, water chestnut and natural wild Ling, which are combined and boiled', meaning 'Hong Fu Qi Tian'.
Drink Tu Su wine
Old Nanjing people used to drink Tusu wine on the morning of the first day of the lunar new year. Wang Anshi of the Song Dynasty knew Jiangning mansion three times as the prime minister. In his poem, he chanted: "with the sound of firecrackers, the spring breeze warms Tu su." This custom began in the Southern Dynasty. For thousands of years, people in Nanjing have been drinking and formed a set of regulations: when the sun rises, they face the East 'from less to longer times'. Young drink first, old drink later, take the meaning of rising sun and rising day by day.
Tangyuan(glutinous rice ball)
On the morning of the first day of the new year, every family in Nanjing will eat Tangyuan or New Year cake, which means happy, round and round, high every year. It is usually rice balls or rice cakes made of glutinous rice flour. The filling of Tangyuan includes white sugar, jujube paste, sesame, etc.
Happy group sugar water
On the first day of the new year, when guests come home to pay New Year's greetings, they should bow with their hands and bring a bowl of sugar water to the guests, with a 'joy Group' (fry the glutinous rice and rub it into a round ball with sugar), implying sweetness and joy.