Resignation means having a big dinner on New Year's Eve. As the saying goes, it is called "New Year's Eve", and some places call it "reunion dinner", "family reunion", "New Year's Eve wine" and "New Year's Eve wine". The wind of resigning from the old has been very popular since the Jin Dynasty. That night, the flesh and blood were reunited, and the children and grandchildren wrapped around their knees and feasted and talked together. Then there's shou sui.
The local chronicles of the Western Jin Dynasty said: "Sit around the stove on New Year's Eve, and when you wake up, it is called longevity." Many poets have poems praising old age. Meng Haoran wrote: "Draw candles in the morning, and have a long feast in the old-fashioned year." Du Fu once said: "Stay at Yarong's house, and pepper dishes are used to praise flowers." In a word, keep the year happy.
Every family in the south of the Yangtze River has to close for New Year's Eve dinner. They can't talk loudly or knock on bowls and chopsticks. After dinner, clean up the chopsticks on the table before opening the door. This is called closing the door to make money and opening the door to make money.
It is said that this custom was handed down to play tricks on Tie Guai Li.
It turns out that when eating New Year's Eve, every household has its door open. The Jade Emperor wanted to know the sufferings of the people, so he sent Tie Guai Li to visit at this time. Tie Guai Li is a cripple named Hua Xian. Therefore, when the earth was eating New Year's Eve, I limped along the street begging with a basket. After dinner, he showed the jade emperor what he got and knew at a glance who was rich and poor. Accordingly, the rich jade emperor ordered the gods to let him suffer several disasters a year, not to be too rich; If you are poor, let him make some money, not too poor.
This matter slowly spread to the world, and one family was more treacherous than others, and soon thought of a solution. When eating New Year's Eve, the door is closed tightly, and no one in the family is allowed to speak loudly. When Tie Guai Li came to beg, his family had already eaten the New Year's Eve dinner. When he opened the door, the table was empty and there was no way to give alms to Tie Guai Li. Tie Guai Li saw that his family was poor enough to eat for several years, so he put some gold ingots at the door and left. This time, the family is rich, but there is no windtight wall. Other families also saw the reason why his family was rich and followed suit. Who knows that when Tie Guai Li saw everyone eating New Year's Eve dinner behind closed doors, he knew that people already knew his task, so he stopped coming to this world to beg and examine the rich and the poor. However, the habit of closing the door to eat New Year's Eve has spread to this day.
On New Year's Eve, no matter how far apart and how busy the work is, people always want to go back to their hometown for a reunion dinner. Sometimes I really can't go home, so I always leave him a seat and a pair of chopsticks at home to show my reunion with him. This kind of New Year's Eve dinner, also called "Family Fun", is a family pavilion banquet that people attach great importance to. According to Chinese traditional folk customs, the food of New Year's Eve is very particular, usually including wonton, jiaozi, long noodles, Yuanxiao and so on.
Eating wonton in the New Year takes its original meaning. Legend has it that Pangu split the heavens and the earth, making "light clear gas for the sky and heavy turbid gas for the earth", ending the chaotic state and creating the universe. Then take the homonym of "wonton" and "mud hoarding", which means full hoarding of grain.
Jiaozi is one of the traditional foods in China. Also known as eating flat or cooking cakes. In ancient times, there were only wonton, not jiaozi. Later, wonton was made into a crescent shape and became jiaozi. In the Tang Dynasty, the habit of eating jiaozi had spread to remote areas in China.
On New Year's Eve, at 12: 11, we began to eat jiaozi, so this is a year's time, which means that the old and the new alternate, and it's time for a year.
Long noodles, also called longevity noodles, are eaten during the New Year. I wish you a long life. In ancient times, pasta was called cake, so noodle soup was also called soup cake at first. At first, the noodles were not rolled or pressed, and the noodles were torn into the pot by hand, similar to the practice of "crow's head" and "monkey's ear" eaten in the north now. It was not until after the Tang Dynasty that long noodles and short noodles appeared one after another. In many places, some non-staple foods are added when eating New Year's Eve, in order to win a lucky taste. Eat dates (spring comes early), dried persimmons (all the best), almonds (happiness comes), tofu (family photo), three fresh vegetables (three Yang Kaitai), longevity fruit (immortality) and rice cakes (rice cakes and rice cakes are getting higher every year). ...