My husband's family is from Liaoning. There must be trotters and chicken feet for all kinds of meat during the Spring Festival. It means "grasping money" to make a fortune. And you can't take care of other people's homes, so it's easy to give away your "wealth". My father-in-law gave my uncle two pig's feet last year, and he also specially explained that you young people have more money and a rich life in my family.
Spring Festival is the most important festival for northerners, commonly known as Chinese New Year.
Chinese New Year must reflect a strong, sweet and reunion flavor. Every family has prepared rich fruits, candies, dried fruits and favorite snacks for their families and guests.
On New Year's Eve, we must eat auspicious dishes, including jiaozi, and get together with our families to have a harmonious and beautiful New Year.
What's so particular about New Year's Eve? First upload a picture of my family's New Year's Eve dinner on 20 18. This is a recipe made by grandma and mom many years ago, and it has been used ever since. This is also the epitome of most families' New Year's Eve dinner in the north. Different families, but basically the same.
First, fish: it means more than one year.
Second, ribs: meaning wealth, wealth and promotion.
Third, elbow: it means walking (elbow homophonic, meaning auspicious).
Fourth, the pig's hand: it means to catch money (it is appropriate to choose the pig's front hand).
Five, meatballs: meaning reunion and perfection.
Six, shrimp: homophonic joy, music.
Seven, apple: meaning peace.
In addition, there are bean sprouts, yuba, lettuce, cabbage, celery and leeks. Eating auspicious dishes and saying auspicious words in the New Year will make a happy family happy.
Besides fish, ribs and other necessities, add a few favorite side dishes. Depending on the number of people, we usually cook 8-20 dishes. The principle must be even, 8, 10, 16 ..... not odd.
According to family preferences, jiaozi, which makes leek shrimp stuffing, leek fish stuffing and celery stuffing, symbolizes wealth and hard work. Usually, I will find some new coins, two peanuts and two sweets and wrap them in jiaozi. Whoever eats it indicates that there will be a rich, high-ranking and sweet lottery leader in the new year.
Jiaozi should be packed before New Year's Eve, which is also the most important part of family reunion. It's especially warm and harmonious for the family to watch TV and chat and pack jiaozi together.
Eat before twelve o'clock, welcome the god of wealth and protect your old age!
There is an old saying in the north, "Call a thousand names and have dinner together for 130 nights". Spring Festival is one of the most important festivals in China. Whenever the Chinese New Year comes, there will be a "homecoming tide". No matter how long people leave, no matter where they are, people will have a reunion dinner during the Spring Festival.
There must be even numbers on the dining table in our family.
I wonder if it is the same in other places. Every year during the Spring Festival, there are always 80 dishes at home, all of which are even numbers. Old people say they mean yes-men. There must be fish on the table. I heard from many friends that northerners always have such a dish at home, which means "more than a year".
When we have New Year's Eve dinner, we always chew a pig's trotter first. Old people say that eating pig's feet will make money at home the next year. I don't know if it's our custom, but as far as I know, several counties around us have the saying of eating pig's feet.
How do northerners leave jiaozi for Chinese New Year? Every new year, the family is always very lively. I can't sleep late. I am busy from morning till night. Although I am tired, I am full of happiness. My family always wraps jiaozi with celery stuffing, and there is a coin in it. Whoever eats it has good luck.
When I was young, I liked Chinese New Year best, because I could get a lot of lucky money. At that time, my favorite sentence was "Here, give it to my children", and the most heartbreaking sentence was "Come, mom will get it for you". I don't know what you pay attention to during the Spring Festival.
Thanks to Wukong for inviting me. Speaking of Chinese New Year, there is a great difference between North and South. After all, it is said that Chinese New Year is a reunion. Family members are busy for one year, and parents are worried for one year. Reunion is the most important thing. According to the custom, we must have jiaozi on the New Year's Eve, and jiaozi in the New Year, that is, jiaozi in the 30th, must be kept, which means there will be savings in the coming year. Custom two, you must pay a New Year call before eight o'clock in the morning, and you must kowtow to the old people at home. There are many customs, and I will tell you one by one when I have time.