We all know that the new year's Eve dinner is the custom of the Chinese people's Spring Festival. The spring festival begins on New Year's Eve. The new year's Eve dinner is a symbol of reunion. What kind of stress is there in eating the new year's Eve dinner? Let's take a look!
Why eat new year's Eve dinner
1. New year's Eve dinner is also called reunion dinner
On New Year's Eve, family members should be as complete as possible, and many family members who are far away from home always have to rush home before the new year's Eve dinner. Therefore, this new year's Eve dinner is also called 'tuanyan'.
2. Eating New Year's Eve dinner has the habit of keeping the year old
ShouSui starts with the new year's Eve dinner. This new year's Eve dinner should be eaten slowly, and some people have to eat until late at night. According to Zong Yu's record of the age of Jingchu, the custom of eating New Year's Eve dinner existed at least in the northern and Southern Dynasties.
What's special about eating New Year's Eve dinner
1. Fish for new year's Eve dinner
Fish is the most common and essential ingredient on the new year's Eve dinner table all over the country, because its meaning is auspicious and implies' surplus every year ', which means that there is surplus money and food in the new year, and everything is very abundant.
2. Eat dumplings for new year's Eve dinner
Yuanxiao, also known as Tangyuan, is common in the south. It is made by rubbing glutinous rice into a circle (filling with different flavors can be added), and then cooking in a pot, which means round and round.
3. New year's Eve dinner has sweets
Sweets often appear as the last dish of new year's Eve dinner. I wish you sweets in the future.
4. Eat dumplings for new year's Eve dinner
Northerners are used to eating dumplings during the Chinese new year, which means "Jiaozi at the turn of the old and the new". And because the shape of white flour dumplings is like silver ingots, they are served in pots and pans, symbolizing the meaning of "making a fortune in the new year, Yuanbao rolling in". When making dumplings, some people also wrap a few coins disinfected by boiling water, saying that whoever eats them first can make more money. The custom of eating dumplings came down from the Han Dynasty. According to legend, Zhang Zhongjing, the medical saint, saw that the poor people's ears were frozen and rotten in the cold winter and December, so he made a kind of 'dispelling cold and charming ear soup' to treat frostbite for the poor.
Misunderstanding of eating New Year's Eve dinner
1. Drink sweet drinks before meals
I don't know when to start. All kinds of sweet drinks have become an indispensable choice for guests after they sit down. Especially for children, if they can't drink, their parents will indulge them to drink cola, Sprite and other drinks. However, carbonated drinks not only have very low nutritional value, but also hinder the digestion and absorption of food by the gastrointestinal tract. In contrast, pure fruit juice, vegetable juice and fresh soybean milk are good choices, while pure yogurt has a better protective effect on drinkers. Some restaurants make fruit juice, corn juice, pumpkin juice, etc. with fresh taste and fashionable style, it is very worth tasting.
2. Cold dishes and fish play the leading role
When feasting, it is inevitable to order some cold dishes for appetizers. Cold dishes have less fat, meat and vegetables. If we ordered more refreshing vegetarian dishes, we could have balanced the problem of excessive oil and protein in the main dish. However, most diners habitually place fish cold dishes such as sauce beef, which makes the cold dishes lose the role of regulating nutritional balance and aggravate the excess protein. A better choice is to mainly eat raw vegetables and vegetables dipped in sauce, plus foods containing starch (such as buckwheat flour, fern root powder, etc.), rhizome foods (such as lotus root slices, yam, etc.) and fruit salads, plus one or two fish and bean products with less oil.