Before the Spring Festival, every household will prepare a lot of dishes, mostly to entertain relatives and friends from afar.
There is one must-have dish during the Spring Festival that can be said to be a dish, and that is dumplings. Eating dumplings during the Spring Festival should be a custom in most areas. Think of a big family, sitting together, talking, rolling slices, making dumplings, dividing labor and cooperating. Everyone can do something, and the dumplings that have put in their own labor must taste the most delicious.
In addition to dumplings, one dish that should be served during the Spring Festival must be fish, which means more than enough every year. With fish, chicken is also essential. Chickens also have their own meanings, opportunities, opportunities, plans, etc. In some places, the first dish is chicken, which means the arrival of good luck, having opportunities, seizing opportunities, having plans in mind, and being confident.
I am a northerner. On the northern dining table, apart from dumplings, chicken, duck and fish, the other dish is elbow. Eating elbows during the Spring Festival represents a strong and prosperous new year. There are many ways to make elbows, so I won’t explain them all one by one. The taste of the elbow is soft, and after one bite, your mouth is filled with the aroma of the elbow. Because of this, if you don't master the method well, the elbow will taste very greasy, so there are certain skills to make the elbow taste delicious without being greasy.
In addition to these meats, there are also shrimps, crabs, beef, mutton, etc. Of course there are dishes.
For vegetables, the one I am most familiar with is cabbage. Cabbage is probably the vegetable I eat the most in winter. You can make dumplings stuffed with cabbage during the Chinese New Year, and you can also stir-fry cabbage or vinegar-filled cabbage on weekdays. Moreover, cabbage is easy to store and cheap. I remember when I was a child, my family would buy a lot of cabbage, dig a hole in the yard, store the cabbage in it, and finally cover the cabbage with a layer of plastic film and a quilt. When it's time to eat, take the cabbage out of it.
Chinese cabbage is the vegetable that impressed me the most during the Spring Festival. In addition to cabbage, you can also eat many kinds of vegetables during the Spring Festival. Such as garlic sprouts, peppers, carrots, mushrooms, lotus roots, etc., there are too many.