Preparing New Year's cake is to show happiness. Because of its homophonic "old age" and diverse tastes, rice cakes have almost become a must-have food for every household. The styles of rice cakes are square yellow and white rice cakes, which symbolize gold and silver and express the meaning of making a fortune in the New Year.
The rice cakes in the north are mainly sweet, steamed or fried, and some people simply eat them with sugar. There are sweet and salty rice cakes in the south, such as those in Suzhou and Ningbo, which are made of japonica rice and have a light taste. In addition to steaming and frying, you can also slice and fry or cook soup. Sweet rice cake is made of glutinous rice flour with sugar, lard, rose, osmanthus, mint, vegetable paste and other ingredients. They are fine in workmanship and can be steamed directly or fried with egg white.
2, the meaning of the New Year's Eve menu-fish: more than a year.
Because there is a traditional saying in China that fish is an essential dish for the New Year's Eve. Eating carp on New Year's Eve is homophonic with "Li", and eating carp in the New Year is very prosperous. Eating crucian carp on New Year's Eve is homophonic with "auspiciousness", and eating crucian carp and crucian carp together in the New Year is good luck. Eating silver carp on New Year's Eve is homophonic with "Lian", and eating silver carp in the New Year is getting more and more every year.
In order to eat more than one year's kindness, you can eat two fish on New Year's Eve, one on New Year's Eve and one on New Year's Eve, which is more than one year's kindness. If you make one, you can eat the terminal on New Year's Eve and the head and tail on New Year's Eve, so there are fish tails every year.
3, the meaning of the New Year's Eve menu-pig hand: making a fortune.
There are many ways to eat pig hands, such as stewed pig hands, vegetable delivery pig hands, peanut pig hands and so on. Because pig hand means to get rich, everything will be smooth and everything will be fine. So this dish is also the favorite auspicious dish in Guangzhou neighborhood!
4. The significance of the New Year's Eve menu-celery: diligent
New Year's Eve is not only a family reunion and a good expectation for the coming year, but also an opportunity to educate children. Celery in long-term dishes is homophonic with "Qin", teaching children to be hardworking, and only hard work can lead a better life.
5. The significance of the New Year's Eve menu-oyster sauce: a good market.
In the south of China, there are many kinds of New Year's Eve, such as chicken, barbecue, Nostoc flagelliforme and oyster sauce, because "Nostoc flagelliforme and oyster sauce" are homophonic. Oyster black beans, also known as "dried oysters", are dried oysters (also known as oysters) and are a must-eat dish for Cantonese during the Spring Festival. Oyster soybean is the best calcium supplement food.