Xiaonian is a traditional festival in China. We also attach great importance to it. From today on, there has been a New Year atmosphere. Every family is busy preparing things for the new year. What's the best food for the new year? What are the customs and habits for the new year?
Eight traditional cuisines for children
1. years of zongzi
Nanning people have the custom of eating "new year dumplings". The new year dumplings are auspicious symbols of the new year. As the saying goes, "new year dumplings, new year high school (Zong)". It has filling, big and small, long and short, round and flat. After peeling off the leaves, the skin is glutinous rice, and the stuffing is mung beans and pork. Some people also put their favorite food as stuffing.
2. pasta
After the 23rd lunar month, most of the people in Shandong Peninsula are busy making jujube cake (also known as big steamed bread), reunion cake, longevity peach and other flour flowers, which means that the whole family is reunited and lives more than every year. It's troublesome to make this kind of noodle. Wake up after the dough is made, knead and wake up again, and then make all kinds of dough shapes. Wake up again after the dough wakes up, and then go to the steamer. The steamed dough is also called "dough". It's very delicious, but it takes a lot of time.
3. fried corn
In the southeast of Shanxi Province, there is a custom of eating fried corn. There is a saying in the folk proverb that "23. No fried corn, one pot at the beginning of the new year". People like to stick the fried corn with maltose, freeze it into large pieces, and eat it crispy and sweet.
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4. sugar cucumber
The kitchen candy is a kind of maltose, which is very sticky. The candy stick which is drawn into a long shape is called "Guandong sugar". When it is drawn into a round shape, it is called "sugar melon". Put it outside the house in winter, because the weather is very cold, the sweet melon is solid and there are some tiny bubbles in it. It tastes crispy, sweet and crispy, with unique flavor. There are two kinds of sweet melons: sesame and non sesame. They are made of sugar into melon shape or northern melon shape. The center is empty and the skin thickness is less than five points. Although the size is different, the transaction is still calculated by the weight. The large sweet melon weighs one or two Jin, but it is used as a cover and few people buy it.
5. dumplings
What food does Xiaonian eat? Dumplings are essential. Xiaonian in the north is used to eating dumplings in the evening, which means to see off the kitchen god. It means' send off dumplings to face the wind '. At the time of offering, the dumplings should be put on the altar. In addition, there is a folk saying that "delicious but dumplings". Every Spring Festival, dumplings become an indispensable food.
6. kill pigs
In the Langdong of Lianhua, Xinhe of Xiling, shuibin mountain village of Guanyin and other places in Gongcheng Yao Autonomous County, there is a custom of killing pigs for the Spring Festival. After the new year's Eve (December 23 of the lunar calendar), the lively play of killing New Year's pigs will be opened. Select the best meat, stir fry or stew, cook carefully, and fill up with a glass of wine. Invite relatives and friends to share the first fresh meat after the slaughter of pigs - soup.
7. sticky cake
There are folk songs of "23, sticky cake and sticky" in Luxi area of Shandong Province. Every year on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, it is a day for every family to steam and eat sticky cakes, which means to stick the mouth of the kitchen king and let him say good things, not bad things. Sticky cake with yellow rice, red dates and other raw materials, sweet and strong way, soft entrance, take the 'high year by year' meaning of auspicious. In addition, Hainan people use coconuts as ingredients to make coconut cakes for eating and praying, taking the auspicious meaning of "annual high".
8. sesame candy
There is a saying in the northwest of Shanxi that "twenty-three people can't eat sesame sugar and nibble their fingers". It is said that Xiaonian is the day when the Kitchen God goes to heaven. He wants to report to the emperor about the consumption of food and clothing and other things that the emperor wants to know. That is, the report day of the kitchen god? Eating sesame sugar is to make the kitchen god's mouth stuck by sugar, and not to report the delicious and luxurious situation of the world to the heaven, so as to avoid punishment for people who love to eat and drink -- famine in the new year, and looking forward to a safe and fruitful year.
What are the customs of the new year
Window cutting: among all the preparations, window cutting is the most popular folk activity. The contents include all kinds of animals and plants, such as magpie climbing the plum, yanchuantao willow, peacock playing peony, lion rolling Hydrangea, Sanyang (Yang) Kaitai, Erlong playing pearl, luhetongchun (six contract spring), five bats (Fu) holding longevity, rhinoceros looking at the moon, lotus (even) year fish (surplus), mandarin duck playing water, Liuhai playing cicada, hehe Erxian and so on.
Paste spring couplets: every family should write spring couplets. People pay attention to God must paste, every door must paste, every thing must paste, so the number of Spring Festival couplets is the most, the content is the most complete. The couplets in front of the gods are very particular, most of them are for worshiping and praying. Common ones are heaven and earth God couplets: 'heaven's grace is like the sea, and earth's virtue is like the mountain'; land God couplets: 'white jade grows in the earth, and gold grows in the earth'; wealth God couplets: 'God of wealth in the sky, God of wealth in the world'; well God couplets: 'well can reach all over the world, and home can reach three rivers'. The Spring Festival couplets in Mian granary and livestock pen all express warm congratulations and hopes.
Bath: adults and children should have bath and haircut. There is a folk saying that "if you have money, shave your head for the new year". Luliang pays attention to foot washing on the 27th of the twelfth month. That evening, the mother, aunt, Ru and son washed their feet with boiling water. For a girl who is not sensible, adults should also help her clean her feet without leaving any filth. It's said that on the 27th of the twelfth lunar month, all the mothers, aunties and Ruzi wash their feet. One does not wash feet, pus damage water seven months' slang.
Marriage: after twenty-three years, the people think that the gods have gone to heaven and there is no taboo. To marry a daughter-in-law or hire a daughter-in-law without choosing a day is called a disorderly marriage. Until the end of the year, there were many wedding ceremonies. There are folk songs about the busy marriage in the village of nianyan, and the posts of Yichun amuse Chunguang. In front of the lamp, my sister said in private, "this year is the bridal chamber.".