The time of the Spring Festival is getting closer and closer. Everywhere is filled with the lively atmosphere of the Spring Festival. The streets and alleys are filled with festive songs of the Spring Festival. There must be delicious food to celebrate the arrival of festivals in China, and new year's Eve is the best time for our family to get together and share delicious food. Eating New Year's Eve dinner has become a part of our traditional customs of the Spring Festival. Do you know what Chinese people pay attention to? What is the significance of new year's Eve dinner? Let's talk about the different meanings of having new year's Eve dinner all over China.
1、 What do Chinese people stress about new year's Eve dinner
1. The whole household must get together. Those who do not return for some reason must leave a seat and a set of tableware to reflect the meaning of reunion.
2. Rich meals, pay attention to 'mouth color', call the New Year cake 'Bu Bu Gao', dumplings' Wan Wan Shun ', wine' Chang Shui ', eggs' Da Yuanbao', and fish 'surplus every year'; This fish is not allowed to eat. It is called 'Kanyu', which must be reserved for the first day of junior high school. In areas without fish in the north, it is mostly replaced by carved wooden fish.
3. The seating order is orderly, mostly for the ancestors. The grandchildren are in the middle, and the parents are in the bottom. All men, women, old and young should drink. At dinner, the house was closed and the excitement stopped.
2、 New year's Eve family banquet dishes have their own characteristics everywhere
In the old days, ordinary people in Beijing and Tianjin cooked rice, stewed pork, beef and mutton, stewed chicken, and then made a few fried dishes.
Shaanxi family banquet generally consists of four plates and eight bowls, four plates are fried dishes and cold dishes, and eight bowls are mainly stewed dishes and cooked dishes.
Only meat dishes in southern Anhui include braised meat, tiger skin meat, meat balls, wood whisker meat, steamed meat, stewed meat, pig liver, pig heart and pig belly products, as well as various fried meat slices and shredded meat.
In the eastern part of Hubei Province, there are "three steams", "three cakes" and "three pills" "Three steams" are steamed whole fish, steamed whole duck and steamed whole chicken; " Three cakes' are fish cake, meat cake and sheep cake; ' Three pills are fish balls, meat balls and lotus root balls.
Ordinary people in Harbin fry 8, 10 or 12, 16 dishes. Their main ingredients are nothing more than chicken, duck, fish and vegetables.
Gannan's new year's Eve dinner is generally 12 courses. Some places in Zhejiang are generally called "ten bowls" to discuss the color of "ten perfection and ten blessings", mainly chicken, duck, fish and various vegetables.
In Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, there are generally more than ten dishes, paying attention to four cold, four hot, eight dishes and two soups.
3、 There are one or several necessary dishes at family banquets on New Year's Eve, and these dishes often have some auspicious meaning.
For example, in Suzhou, there must be green vegetables (euthanasia), bean sprouts (Ruyi) and celery (diligence) on the table.
In central and southern Hunan, there must be a carp of about one kilogram, called 'tuanyan fish', and there must be a pig elbow of about three kilograms, called 'tuanyan elbow'.
There are two fish on the table in central and southern Anhui. One complete carp can only be seen but not eaten. It not only respects the ancestors, but also shows that there is more than every year. The other is silver carp, which can be eaten, symbolizing the prosperity of children and grandchildren.
The first bowl of Qimen family banquet is' neutralization ', which is made of tofu, mushrooms, winter bamboo shoots, shrimp and fresh meat, which means' harmony makes money'.
There is a bowl of 'chicken catching beans' on the dinner table in Hefei, which means' catch money and get rich'. The housekeeper wants to eat a chicken leg, called 'catch money claw', which means to attract money and treasure next year.
Anqing's leaders should eat a bowl of noodles before dinner, which is called 'money string'.
Nanchang must eat new year cake, braised fish, fried rice noodles, eight treasure rice and boiled soup. Their meanings are rising every year, fish every year, grain harvest every year, clusters of rice, eight treasures into wealth and prosperity every year.
4、 New year's first meal
The first meal of the Spring Festival in Hunan should eat 'New Year cake', which means' year by year is better ', while a small number of Miao people in Hunan eat sweet wine and zongzi for the first meal of the Spring Festival, which means' sweet life and bumper grain'.
Some places in Hubei drink chicken soup for the first meal of the Spring Festival, symbolizing 'Qingtai and peace'. In addition, the main labor force in the family also wants to eat chicken feet, hoping to 'catch money in the new year'; Young students want to eat chicken wings, which means they can fly high; The head of the family eats chicken bones, which means "stand out". In Jingzhou and Shashi areas, eggs are eaten for the first meal, which means "real and auspicious". If you meet guests, you should eat two 'poached eggs' that are very tender and can see the egg yolk through the protein, which means' silver wrapped in gold, gold wrapped in silver, gold and silver'.
The first meal in Poyang, Jiangxi Province is to eat dumplings and fish, which means "Jiaozi" and "surplus every year". Some put candy, flowers and silver coins in dumplings, which means "sweet life", "Immortality" and "wealth in the new year".
In some parts of Guangdong, the first meal of the Spring Festival should eat "Wannian food", that is, make enough meals for the family for three days of the Spring Festival, which means "don't worry about eating and drinking". In Chaozhou, we often eat "rotten round" fried with rice flour and dried radish for the first meal, and drink "five fruit soup" boiled with Euryale ferox and lotus seeds, implying the meaning of "sweet life and long history".
Guangxi Zhuang people eat sweets for the first meal of the Spring Festival, which means that life in the new year is beautiful and sweet.
People in Southern Fujian eat noodles for the first meal of the Spring Festival, which means "long every year". People in Zhangzhou eat sausages, Songhua eggs and ginger, which means "the days are getting more and more prosperous".
In some places in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the first meal of the Spring Festival is a 'spring dish' composed of celery, leeks and bamboo shoots, which means' hard work and long time '.
In some places in Anhui, each person should bite a raw radish at the first meal of the Spring Festival, which is called "biting spring", which can be "sterilized, disease prevention and auspicious new year".
In Guanzhong and some parts of Henan Province, the first meal of the Spring Festival is cooked with dumplings and noodles, which are called "gold thread wearing Yuanbao" and "silver thread hanging gourd".
The first meal of Taiwan's Spring Festival is "perennial vegetable", which is a kind of mustard with long stems and leaves and bitter taste. Some also add slender vermicelli to the dishes, which means' continuous and immortal '.
The new year's Eve dinner in southern Henan is eaten until midnight. When the new year's bell rings, a plate of fish is served to show that there is more than enough every year. On the morning of the first day of the lunar new year, dumplings and noodles are cooked together. Noodles represent money strings, which means to get rich.
Shanghainese eat glutinous rice balls, New Year cakes, bee cakes, rice cakes, cloud cakes, etc. on the first day of the new year. The fables are "high every year" and "rising step by step". In addition, eating bean sprouts (also known as' ruyi dish ') symbolizes good luck, and eating sprouted vegetables (soaked with broad beans) means getting rich.
Sichuan usually eats hot pot on New Year's Eve and Tangyuan on the morning of the first day of the lunar new year, which means round and round.