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What's the difference between the South and the north? What do young people in North and South eat r

There are many different customs in the north and south of China. In terms of the small year, there is a day difference between the north and the south. In terms of traditional diet, there are also differences between the north and the south. So what kind of food should the South and the North eat on the new year's day?

What do you eat in the North

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.

Destroy by fire

Many small New Year's Eve meals in northern provinces and cities are gradually dominated by dumplings, but there is another place, Henan. In Henan, every family has to cook their own fire, which is almost equal to Xiaonian.

Dumplings

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.

cake made of glutinous rice flour

There are folk songs of "23, sticky cake and sticky" in Luxi area of Shandong Province. Every year on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, it's a day for families to steam sticky cakes and eat sticky cakes. It means to stick the mouth of the kitchen king so that he can 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.

Fried corn

In the southeast of Shanxi Province, it is popular to eat fried corn. There is a saying in the folk proverb, "23, do not eat fried corn. At the beginning of the year - one pot pour". People like to stir fry corn with maltose, frozen into large pieces, eat crisp and sweet.

Bean curd

The 25th day of the 12th lunar month is "tofu day". The old saying is that tofu can be made, bought and fried. The fried tofu can be stored until the new year. To eat tofu in the new year is just to make a good start for the new year. I hope that the good fortune can be made into a fight. Good or bought fresh tofu is not easy to store, and do not want to be made into frozen tofu, so we take the method of fried preservation, also let the new year's table eat more.

Steamed buns

After the 23rd of the lunar month, every family needs to steam huamo. Generally, it can be divided into two types: worshiping God and walking relatives. The former is solemn, the latter is flower tip. In particular, we should make a jujube mountain for the worship of the kitchen god. 'a family of steamed buns, four neighbors to help'. This is often a great opportunity for folk women to show their dexterity. A huamo is a handicraft.

What do you eat in the South

1, annual rice dumplings

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, rice cake

On the 23rd of the lunar month, the folk is commonly known as "Xiaonian". There is a custom of making rice cakes in Wuxuan, Guiping and other places in Guangxi. Rice cake is made of glutinous rice flour, peanuts, sesame and white sugar. It is made into a round shape by putting it into a mold, and then steamed at high temperature. It tastes unique and has the meaning of "round and round".

3, sugar

Zaowang sugar is a kind of sugar product brewed from malt and millet. It has the shortest selling period and only comes into the market after a small year. This kind of sugar is used to offer sacrifices to the kitchen god. It's intended to stick the kitchen god's mouth with the sugar, so that he can "say good things from heaven and keep peace from the lower world".

4. Sugar cane

Sugarcane is very popular on the day of Xiaonian. Sugarcane is a must for cooking because of its good moral of "saving height". Sugarcane is the ladder for the kitchen god to climb up one by one, and the end of sugarcane belt has an endless meaning.

It is said that there was a poor scholar in Fuzhou in the Song Dynasty who could not afford to sacrifice to Zao on that day, so he had to pick up the sugarcane head lost by others and offer it to Zao Gongzao Po. He also cut a paper horse and wrote: 'a black horse with a whip will send you Zao Gongshang to Qingtian; if the Jade Emperor asks about human affairs, it means that the article is not worth money!' on that day, Zao Gongshang Tian told the jade emperor about this, and the Jade Emperor was very sympathetic and let the scholar win the first prize. Therefore, in the traditional day of sacrificing to the kitchen in Fuzhou, it is still important to keep the sugarcane head intact when eating sugarcane, so as to have the meaning of "thrifty" and "golden list title".

5, Lantern Festival

People in Huizhou call it "Kitchen God", also known as "Kitchen God" and "Kitchen God". On the day of sending Zao Jun, we all need to burn candles, prepare Lantern Festival, orange, carrot, tea, and two sugarcane with tail ends. Yuanxiao, orange and tea are naturally for Zaojun, and Yuanxiao is a must-have, which means to paste Zaojun's mouth, so that he doesn't talk about the right and wrong of ordinary people.

6. Water chestnut

In old Fuzhou, sugarcane and water chestnut are indispensable, which have the meaning of "sweet honey". Chufa, in order to take the homonym of Fuzhou dialect, implies' good luck from the beginning to the end of the year '.

7. The 24th regiment

"Eating dumplings on the 24th night" is a custom in many places in the south of the Yangtze River, which means a happy family. In Suzhou, the "small year" is celebrated on the 24th of the 12th lunar month every year. Making, sending and eating dumplings is a must.

The most important sacrifice in Suzhou people's kitchen is Tuanzi, which used to be called "24 Tuan". "Twenty four regiments" are made of glutinous rice flour. The fillings include fresh meat, bean paste, shredded radish, etc. The steamed dumplings are all printed with round, square and petal shaped impressions to distinguish different fillings.

8, rice cake

The meaning of "year-on-year high" is taken as the homonym of New Year cake. The Lunar New Year is also called Cizao. After eating cakes, he sent the kitchen master to heaven to report his work. Steamed the cake, put on the dates, dip in the sugar to give him sweet shut up, told him to go to the Jade Emperor to talk about the good things of the people.

It is said that when Wu Zixu built Gusu City, the city bricks were not made of clay, but were made of 'bricks' made of glutinous rice flour. The common people used' glutinous rice city bricks' to solve the crisis for a while. Suzhou people commemorate Wu Zixu, and then every winter, they prepare rice cakes. The shape of Suzhou New Year cake is similar to that of City brick, and it is not greasy after cooking, does not crack after drying, and can not be stored for a long time.

The difference between the northern and southern Chinese New Year

After the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, the royal family usually chose to sacrifice the kitchen on the 23rd of the twelfth month. There is a record in the history of the Qing Dynasty that "only on the 23rd of December, the kitchen in the palace is often worshipped". In the Jiaqing and Daoguang years of the middle Qing Dynasty, due to the close distance from the political center, the time of small-scale folk year sacrifice kitchen in the North was gradually changed to the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month under the influence of the official, and most areas in the South followed the old calendar. No matter in the South or in the north, there are fewer and fewer small-scale sacrificial ceremonies. More importantly, they start to clean up and buy new year's products to prepare for the new year's Eve meal. They start to enter the & lsquo; rhythm of Spring Festival & rsquo; from spiritual to material;.

Xiaonian has the tradition of "three officials, three people and four people". That is to say, the Xiaonian of the official family is the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, and that of the common people is the 24th of the twelfth lunar month. Like the north, it was the political center before the Southern Song Dynasty, and was heavily influenced by the official atmosphere. Therefore, most of the young people were on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month; on the contrary, the South was far away from the political center, and the young people were on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month.