China New Year means good food. The Chinese New Year is coming, the food should be of good quality, and it is more important to have a good Spring Festival. Different regional cultures in the north and south of the motherland attach great importance to the auspicious meaning of food in the New Year. Let's briefly introduce what food to eat in the New Year.
Delicious Chinese New Year means 1 1, and eating jiaozi in Chinese New Year means getting rich. In China folklore, eating "jiaozi" on New Year's Eve is an important feast that no food can replace. "jiaozi", also called "Jiaozi" or "Joule", means the alternation of old and new, and it is also a must-eat feast food. Eating jiaozi means "making friends when I was young", while "Zi" means "Zi Shi", which is homophonic with "Jiao" and means "Happy Reunion" and "Good luck".
In addition, jiaozi, which is shaped like an ingot, has the auspicious meaning of "making a fortune" when eating jiaozi in the New Year. The choice of dumpling stuffing is directly related to the implication. The most common leek stuffing means long-term wealth, because long time means long time, which is called long-term wealth. A typical Chinese cabbage stuffing in winter means a hundred treasures. Finally, there is sauerkraut that Nanjing people love to eat, which is said to mean calculating wealth.
2. Eating chicken in the New Year is planning. On New Year's Eve, a chicken is indispensable on a sumptuous dinner table. On New Year's Eve, chicken is the first dish for dinner in many places, because it means good luck. There must be a chicken on the Chinese New Year's dinner table, because "eating chicken begins". The local Hakkas in Guangzhou worship God, regard chickens and geese as the "firstborn", and all choose "take the chicken", which means that they are living fiercely.
Eating rice cakes in the New Year means getting better every year. The first meal of the Spring Festival in Hunan is to eat "rice cakes", which means "getting better every year", while a few Miao people in Hunan eat sweet wine and zongzi for the first meal of the Spring Festival, which means "life is sweet and the grain is plentiful".
4, eating fried piles in the New Year means that the house is full of gold and silver. For Cantonese people, doing pile speculation in the New Year means "boring pile speculation, full of gold and silver". As early as the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Qu Dajun recorded in "Guangdong New Language": "Those who fry piles take glutinous rice flour as the size circle, fry it, worship their ancestors and give it to relatives and friends." In the past, it was a very grand thing to do fried piles. We should drive all the children out of the studio and say auspicious words while frying, so as to pray for a long-term future.
5. Eating camphor tea duck in the New Year means neatness. Sichuanese believe that the most important thing in Chinese New Year is family cleanliness, so the dishes are all whole duck (Zhangcha duck), whole fish (fragrant roasted mandarin fish) and whole hoof, which embodies the concept of "whole"; A dish (soup) containing pig ears and oxtail stands for "one head and one tail".
Chinese New Year Cuisine 2 1 jiaozi: The Way to Make Money.
In China folk customs, especially in northern areas, eating "jiaozi" on New Year's Eve is an irreplaceable feast.
"jiaozi", also known as "Jiaozi", means the alternation of old and new, and it is a must-eat feast. Jiaozi is shaped like an ingot. Eating jiaozi during the Spring Festival naturally carries the auspicious meaning of "making a fortune". Jiaozi is more particular about the choice of stuffing, and jiaozi with leek stuffing is a must, because leek is homophonic with time, which means long-term happiness. Chinese cabbage meat stuffing means "hundred treasures" and mushroom meat stuffing means "drum" treasures. On this holiday season, everything goes well.
Of course, the family is sitting around jiaozi, making noise and getting together. This process is often more important than jiaozi itself.
Compatriots living overseas often miss their relatives more than ever during the festive season, and the feeling of homesickness is often a warm scene of rich New Year's Eve dinner and busy work in jiaozi.
2. Tangyuan: Round and round.
During the Spring Festival, jiaozi is eaten in the north and Tangyuan is eaten in the south. The Spring Festival pays attention to family reunion, and eating glutinous rice balls in the Spring Festival means happiness and family reunion.
Tangyuan, also known as Yuanxiao or Tangtuan, is one of the most traditional foods in China. Tangyuan originated in the Han Dynasty and has a long history. The ancients said: "Every family in Ningbo makes glutinous rice balls, and contentment is always happy." There is even a saying among the people that "eating glutinous rice balls is one year older".
There are many kinds of stuffed jiaozi, including sesame, sugar, bean paste, nuts and shepherd's purse. Jiaozi tastes soft, waxy and refreshing. Round appearance, rich and delicious connotation, of course, we must taste the happiness of Chinese New Year reunion.
3, rice cakes: high every year
The rice cake is a traditional food of the Chinese nation and belongs to the seasonal food of the Lunar New Year. Most rice cakes are made of glutinous rice flour and steamed with fire.
The new year cake means that the fire is ripe and the new year is prosperous, and the cake is homophonic, which means that it is high every year. During the Spring Festival, children are getting taller every year, and adults' careers and businesses are booming, and their promotion and salary increase are getting higher every year.
4, fish: more than a year.
Fish is homophonic with "fish", meaning more than a year. In many places in China, chopsticks are allowed to hold a fish on the dining table, because this fish (leftover) is reserved for the Lunar New Year, or this fish is eaten in the middle of dinner and at the beginning and end of New Year's Eve. There is another place where there is a fish on New Year's Eve and another fish on New Year's Eve. No matter what kind of custom, it is an auspicious meaning to have fish every year and have more than one year.
In the choice of fish species, carp, crucian carp and silver carp are the best choices. The pronunciation of "carp" is the same as that of "Li", and the pronunciation of "crucian carp" is the same as that of "Ji". Eating carp and crucian carp in the New Year means "good luck". Eat silver carp on New Year's Eve, because silver carp is homophonic with "Lian", which is also the meaning of all seasons.
5, Nostoc flagelliforme: make a fortune
Nostoc flagelliforme is an algae plant, which is mostly produced in desert areas such as Gansu. It is named for its black and slender color, such as human hair. This is a famous mountain food.
According to records, Nostoc flagelliforme was an export material in the Han and Tang Dynasties, and the dignitaries in the northwest paid tribute to the emperor, including rare Nostoc flagelliforme. Nostoc flagelliforme is rich in nutrients and trace elements, and also has the functions of detoxifying and clearing heat, regulating lung and resolving phlegm, regulating stomach and intestines, lowering blood pressure and so on.
In southeast coastal areas such as Guangdong, Nostoc flagelliforme is an essential ingredient for the Spring Festival banquet. Because Nostoc flagelliforme is homophonic with "making a fortune", it is of course necessary to eat it during the New Year. Congratulations on making a fortune.
6. Oyster sauce: a good market
In the southeast coastal areas, on New Year's Eve, besides laver (making a fortune), there must be oyster sauce (the market is good).
Oyster black beans, also known as "dried oysters", are dried seafood oysters (also known as oysters) and are a must-eat dish for Cantonese people during the Spring Festival. Oyster soybean is the best food for calcium supplementation and is rich in phosphorus. Because calcium needs the help of phosphorus when it is absorbed by human body, it is beneficial to the absorption of calcium.
Nutrient-rich oyster sauce, homophonic "good thing", eating oyster sauce in the Lunar New Year means that the market in the new year is good and bull market. Friends who invest in stocks don't forget to try it.
Nostoc flagelliforme and oyster sauce (rich market)
A master of auspicious dishes for the New Year.
If you order a New Year's Eve dinner in Cantonese restaurants all over the United States, there are bound to be two happy dishes: Nostoc flagelliforme and oyster sauce (a good market for making a fortune).
7. Chicken: Ji
The cock sings that the world is white, and the chicken is homophonic with auspiciousness, which means good luck. Putting a plate of chicken on New Year's Eve is a necessary recipe to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.
In many local folk customs, the whole chicken must be eaten on New Year's Eve, which symbolizes the good luck of the whole family. Old people will avoid the first half chicken or diced chicken because good luck will be "disfigured".
At the Spring Festival banquet, old people often put chicken feet on the pillars of their homes. Chicken feet are used to dig the ground and cut vegetables. They are only tasted in the New Year, which means that you will earn more money in the new year.
8. Orange: Good luck.
The Spring Festival is coming, and Chinese supermarkets all over the United States will provide special products for the Spring Festival: oranges with green leaves, called Nian Orange.
Oranges are golden in color and the green leaves are particularly gratifying. Orange is homophonic with good luck. Golden yellow symbolizes harvest and wealth, and New Year orange symbolizes good luck and good luck in the new year.
During the Spring Festival, seasonal fruits, including oranges and grapefruit, are golden, dazzling and rich in financial resources. Orange is homophonic with "Cheng", which means a successful career in the New Year. Grapefruit is homophonic with "you" Eating grapefruit in the Spring Festival means that wealth will come again and wealth will last forever.
Chinese New Year means food 3 1, fish-more and more rich.
In Chinese, "fish" and "fish" are homophones. China people like to save at the end of the year, so they think that if they can save some wealth at the end of the year, they can earn more next year.
2. jiaozi-Wealth
Some people package jiaozi as a gold ingot (meaning: turning money into treasure). It is said that the more jiaozi you eat in the New Year, the more money you will earn in the coming year.
3, rice cakes-higher income or position.
In Chinese, the pronunciation of rice cakes is the same as "Niangao", which means that more achievements are made year by year. The main raw materials of rice cakes are glutinous rice, sugar, chestnuts, dates and lotus leaves.
4. Tangyuan-the family is round and round.
Tangyuan is the main food of China Lantern Festival. In southern China, people also eat Yuanxiao during the Spring Festival. The pronunciation and shape of glutinous rice balls are related to reunion, which is why people in China like to eat glutinous rice balls on the Lantern Festival.
5. Fruits of Geely-Abundance and Wealth
During the Spring Festival, eat some fruits, such as oranges, oranges and grapefruit. They are chosen as auspicious fruits because they are particularly round, and golden yellow is a symbol of wealth and abundance, but more because of their pronunciation.
Extended data
Jiaozi is not only a kind of food, but also a representative of China cuisine. Every part of it contains China culture, which is a necessary food for every family at ordinary times, and also expresses people's yearning and appeal for a better life.
Dumpling stuffing culture
1, celery stuffing-that is, diligent money is diligent money jiaozi.
Diligence: that is, diligence and diligence; Often diligence (frequency) is constantly flowing, which is called diligence. It is a blessing to endless material wealth; It is also a blessing for hard work and pragmatism.
2, leek stuffing-that is, the meaning of long-term wealth, so it is a long-term wealth of jiaozi.
Long time: that is, over time, it is called long-term wealth. Long-term prayer is a kind of material wealth; It is also a blessing to eternity, hoping that people will live for a long time-health, harmony, happiness and happiness.
3, cabbage stuffing-that is, the meaning of a hundred wealth, so it is a hundred wealth jiaozi.
Hundred: quantifiers, that is, hundreds of meanings, are called hundred treasures. Blessing for all kinds of wealth; Or wish the newlyweds a long life together.
4, mushroom stuffing-that is, drum wealth means drum wealth jiaozi.
Drum: It just rises high and sticks out. Mushrooms are shaped like an upward arrow, or the trend of the stock market, meaning upward and full, which is called drum wealth; Or express good wishes for the younger generation to get ahead.
5, sauerkraut stuffing-that is, counting money, so it is called counting money jiaozi.
Calculation: that is, inspection and settlement. If the money is enough for one night, how much is it? Call it counting money; Or for the blessing of choice, choice is greater than effort, I hope relatives and friends can make a good choice and make a good choice.