But on New Year's Eve, the day of the New Year's Day, breakfast and noon, there really is nothing to talk about.
Telling, is the first to the third of the first three days, the three days of the morning and evening, generally still drink chuang soup, at noon is rice with at least four dishes and a soup, dumplings-based.
And after the third, there is nothing to say. Just go to relatives to receive friends, the main food rice, dumplings, bread-based, but depending on the number of guests, dishes at least to fry six or more.
Hundreds of miles of different winds, thousands of miles of different customs. I'm going to talk about my hometown in southwestern China.
Breakfast
Morning nothing special, normal breakfast, eat dumplings can also be, to thirty days of this day, basically every family New Year's Eve are almost ready to go, what is missing, the morning of this day will certainly rush to the market to buy, more than ten o'clock, basically everyone in the sticker couplets, sticking the God of the old stove, must be rushed to the lunch before the sticker, if not sticking it will be suspected of what happened at home, the elderly, the elderly, the elderly, the elderly, the elderly, the elderly, the elderly, the elderly, the elderly, the elderly, the elderly, the elderly, the elderly, the elderly, the elderly, the elderly, the elderly, the elderly. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a new one, and you'll be able to do that.
Lunch
Lunch is our standard is a pot of vegetables, with meatballs, vermicelli, meat stew pot of vegetables, each family's stew with the same practice, but there must be, there is also a custom is to have to give relatives and neighbors to the elders to send a bowl, and is still the case, and now life is good with a few small dishes, drink a little wine. There is also must eat in their own home, I guess this is a symbol of the reunion of the New Year.
Dinner
After lunch is ready to wrap the dumplings ah, generally more packages, the night to eat and eat on the first day of the New Year should be wrapped out. Before dinner, each family will go to the ancestral graves of the "old grandparents" invited home to spend the New Year with filial piety, and then burn incense and kowtow, and then began to firecrackers to cook dumplings, firecrackers must be in the dumplings in the pot at the same time to light. Dinner is dumplings with garlic or cold vegetables. General dinner is eaten very early, 4:00 pm will hear the sound of firecrackers, means that some people began to eat it, eat dinner, is the vigil to play it, watch the Spring Festival Gala to watch the Spring Festival Gala, playing mahjong playing mahjong, there are friends and family gatherings and drinking vigil, I remember that when I was small, our family is to gather to our home, and now we all take turns to come to your house this year, next year in his family. We all drink and chat, talk about the year's harvest, the next year's intention, looking forward to the arrival of the New Year.
Summary
Now with the change of time, some eating customs are also changing, but no matter how to change, people's expectations of the New Year has not changed, the desire for a better life has not changed.
I am the South, there should be a difference between the North and South, or the customs of each place are different, like in my family, usually in the morning, then will be like the usual, casually eat a little, after eating, clean up the dishes, on the preparation of New Year's Eve dinner, we basically don't eat Chinese food here, because they are getting up late, breakfast and lunch is almost at a point, so the day is only eaten two meals.
After eating breakfast, start to prepare the ingredients for the New Year's Eve dinner, like a lot of people in the family, no matter men and women, young and old, each have their own division of labor, we all talk and laugh together to do, when it is done when you eat, and do not round morning and evening.
Like my family basic good will be in the evening about 6:00 pm, sometimes also in 4:00 pm or so, began to eat New Year's Eve dinner, after eating the family sat in front of the TV to watch the Spring Festival Gala, is also a happy scene.
In the morning, we eat buns, at noon, pad a bite, and in the evening, we eat a big meal is my family's arrangement of three meals a day on the night of the 30th.
New Year's Eve is the happiest day of the year. Because before all the preparations have basically been completed, eat full, wear high up, waiting to change into new clothes to eat. The main thing is that the exhausting work of cleaning and cleaning has also been completed, the top of the Spring Festival couplets.
And after the 30th night, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, you have to be busy paying your respects to the New Year, visiting friends and relatives, taking turns to eat Chunzhi in your family, and your own family will also take turns to entertain the relatives in your family for one day, so the whole holiday season will be very busy, and you can't have any peace and quiet. So only the night of the 30th is most anticipated by me.
On this day you can eat the long-awaited New Year's Eve dinner. That fresh and refreshing chowder soup, that wide array of large platters, that oily and spicy braised large intestine ...... In fact, it is very tiring to make New Year's Eve dinner, there are too many ingredients to be prepared, and there is too much preliminaries to be done, but since my mom makes the New Year's Eve dinner every year in our family, I don't have to do it. Mom works hard (hugs)!
Every year on New Year's Eve, mom gets up very early. Make breakfast, usually a very simple breakfast. For example, hot a porridge, and then heat a few buns, because during the New Year's period, we here every family to steam buns, at least to steam more than 100, each family to eat until after the New Year for a long, long time. During the New Year's period buns belong to the family's most convenient kind of staple food.
When we eat breakfast, my mom would tell us to eat more every time, because we have to be busy with the New Year's Eve dinner, so lunch is usually very late.
Actually, saying that lunch is late is a kind of "cheating" statement, heh. Because - there is no lunch at all, haha! In the morning we eat buns are very top hungry, you know home-made buns are very big, filling is also put in the extra full, one person to eat two buns go down to the midday indeed also not hungry.
One morning's time mom has made several semi-finished products out. For example, chicken soup, to boil out the earliest, to do soup with; soup soup is also done; turnip Wuzi soup is also ready ...... and I, do something to change the egg shelling, slicing, washing shrimp, picking and washing the veggies to play the hands of these small things, busy unknowingly time past noon.
Midday really hungry people basically can not eat staple food, mom will not prepare the day's staple food (sneer) ~ hungry can drink soup, random drink, soup, Wu Zi soup, chicken soup can be, casually pad a mouth can also be. We have a popular word for New Year's Eve here - "nian sati". The meaning of the word is that every day you see the good food is not very hungry, hehehe
By three o'clock in the afternoon, the mother will officially burn the New Year's Eve dinner. The whole process usually takes about two hours. Our family usually start to eat at five o'clock, because the family jokes and chats together, this New Year's Eve dinner is often eaten for an hour or two. After eating, you need to clean up quickly, because at eight o'clock, the Spring Festival party will start!
Our family New Year's Eve dinner is very sumptuous. The dishes are almost the same every year because my mom is in charge of the meal, but every year I eat it, I feel it is very delicious.
My family's New Year's Eve dinner dishes: cold dishes platter, the first chowder soup, stewed glutinous rice meatballs, stewed prawns, radish wuzi vermicelli soup, braised sausage, taro soup, soy sauce beef, sweet and sour spare ribs, braised mutton, stir-fried veggies, deep-fried lotus root cake, deep-fried spring rolls, and finally on the fish, and then a green vegetables and tofu soup to end, which is a symbol of the cleanliness of the smooth and the yearly surplus.
New Year's Eve, a place a custom, in the Northeast in the past New Year's Eve to worship ancestors, paste the New Year's Eve paintings, paste the door right. Morning meal is not very elaborate, in the Northeast, to be in the thirty before the family steamed bean buns, steamed buns, rolls, siu mai, buns, dumplings, because of the cold weather in the north, it is put outside in the vat on top of the cover on a large iron pot, in the north it is called the year chewing goods. Eat time to take out a steam to eat, save time, in the north of New Year's Day has to pay attention to the first day of the first month to the first five, do not move the knife. In addition, it is also a symbol of the New Year. In the Northeast New Year's taste can be enough, people have to visit friends and relatives to worship the New Year, so the family before the New Year's Eve must put the New Year's Eve things to buy good, it is called busy year. Speaking of thirty lunch, the Northeast people have to pay attention to, our parents in the family, to reunite the whole family. Less than one can not start the meal, not eat before the first ancestor worship, seating also has to pay attention to, parents sit in the seat, if there are grandparents in, grandparents sit in the seat. When serving food there are also instructions, first cold and then hot. You can not underestimate the Northeastern people on New Year's Eve, that can be called a delicate, do not look at the previous conditions are not good, but on New Year's Eve, the family can be sumptuous, we used to raise pigs at home, to the New Year's Eve to kill the New Year's Eve pig to do the dishes will be a lot. In my family on New Year's Eve to have chicken, fish, no chicken no fish no mat, meat is not less. There are ribs, slipped meat section, south fried meatballs, pot roast, roll fried, sausage, coleslaw, sauerkraut do kill pig dishes, fresh vegetables in the north on New Year's Eve is very expensive, but the Northeast people will still go to buy there are stir-fried vegetables, fried bean curd, fried peppers, fried garlic moss, fried fish, fried mushrooms Ru, fried fungus, there are people who are careful about the family will also be hung syrup, to do some of the sweet and sour mouth of the dishes, in short, thirty days of this reunion New Year's Eve dinner the most elaborate, the family's fine dishes at least minimum! At least twenty-six to thirty dishes! In short, this meal is the most luxurious and most elaborate meal in the north of this meal there is a kind of wealth grabbing symbolism, whoever grabbed the first firecrackers show that his family is flush, open the meal, the wealth to come. Evening family dumplings called pinch Yuanbao, the whole family together in a while dumplings on the package, children play lanterns to keep the New Year's Eve, such as the issue of New Year's money, the first morning to eat dumplings. After eating to pay homage, in short, the New Year's Eve is the most elaborate New Year's Eve.
Honestly, you want to eat what you eat, do not waste, now living conditions are good, not lack of food and drink, the family is happy and healthy on the good, eat what is not important, and who is with the king
Northeast Jilin people, we thirty morning casually eat a little bit, and then it is to prepare for the afternoon meal, we are generally in the afternoon at 1:30 to two o'clock to start eating, which is also our most important meal of the year.
Coordinates of Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, to answer the question of what our family eat on New Year's Eve!
Breakfast
rice porridge, steamed buns (their own home package)
New Year's Eve is winter, our winter basically every family will steam steamed buns. But this steamed buns, not the kind of big white buns in the north, there is a filling inside.
General: sesame sugar steamed buns, vegetable steamed buns, shredded radish steamed buns (home-grown sesame, green vegetables, large white radish)
Special: bean paste steamed buns, meat steamed buns. These two kinds of a few people's family package.
The steamed buns, the outside looks like a big steamed bun, not the kind sold outside the folds of the buns, is the use of alkaline water fertilizer (fermentation), and then wrapped. I remember this is also need technology, once my father failed once, resulting in that year my family winter no steamed bread to eat.
Chinese food (especially elaborate)
We here at noon on the 30th day of the Lunar New Year is to honor the old ancestors, that is, to burn paper money for the relatives who have died in the family, toasting, kowtowing.
After a few minutes, it is considered that the ancestors have finished eating, and then we start to pack up the burnt paper money, dispose of the ashes, and then we must reheat the food and rice before we can give them to us living people to eat. Chopsticks, wine, and rice must be taken back to the kitchen and put away for a while before they are brought to the table and the family begins to eat the midday meal.
After lunch, the family has to take the leftover paper money to sweep the graves, the same as on the Ching Ming Festival, to visit the deceased relatives.
Dinner (Reunion)
The night of the New Year's Eve is presumably the day of the all-Chinese reunion, and is generally a more sumptuous meal. But because there are more three highs these days, our family really doesn't eat hearty compared to other people's families. It's mostly hot pot, induction hot pot.
Summary
The customs of each place are different, but all have their own characteristics. But no matter what, New Year's Eve is a day of reunion, it is not important to eat well or ugly, what is important is the kind of warmth and excitement of the family together.
New Year's Eve is now the same as usual, not so much to pay attention to. The most important thing is that you have to be able to get the best out of your life, and you have to be able to get the best out of your life.
You can eat whatever you want, there's no need to be so particular about it
There's no need to be so particular about it.