What is the meaning of New Year's Eve? The symbolic significance of New Year's Eve.
The significance of New Year's Eve: A family having a reunion dinner means auspiciousness, wealth, perfection and reunion. New Year's Eve, also known as "family fun", is a family dinner that people attach great importance to. As the saying goes, hit a thousand and scold ten thousand, and eat at thirty nights.
The annual reunion dinner fully shows the mutual respect and care among family members in China, which makes the relationship between families closer.
Family reunion often brings spiritual comfort and satisfaction to the head of the family. Old people look after their children and grandchildren, and the whole family has affection. In the past, I was concerned about how happy it was to raise children. The younger generation can take this opportunity to express their gratitude to their parents for their parenting.
What are the characteristics of North-South New Year's Eve dinner?
In this city of Beijing, most dishes are cooked before New Year's Eve at the New Year's Eve dinner of ordinary families. The dishes include all kinds of cold meat dishes, such as cold stewed meat, mutton and cold stewed fish, crucian carp and cold stewed chicken. The soups of these dishes are frozen into pieces because of the cold weather, so people call them "frozen meat", "frozen fish" and "frozen chicken". There are also dishes that are prepared in advance but need to be steamed at the New Year's Eve, such as braised pork, braised elbow strips, red and white meatballs and Four Joy Meetballs bamboo shoots. Then there are green vegetables and finished dishes, such as sweet and spicy cabbage, mustard tuber, diced pork fried salted cucumber, shredded pork fried sour melon, shredded pork fried bergamot, laba garlic and so on. Vegetarian dishes are essential for New Year's Eve dinner, which can be used to dilute greasy and overweight meat food and make people feel refreshed. The main food of the New Year's Eve dinner is jiaozi, with mutton and cabbage stuffing, pork and leek stuffing and three fresh stuffing. This meal must be attended by the whole family, which means family reunion, so it is called reunion dinner. The family got together and tasted the rich and attractive dishes on the table, both hot and cold, all of which were vegetarian dishes. A sense of fulfillment and happiness can't help but arise. At the dinner table, everyone should try to say more auspicious words, so as to create a harmonious and pleasant atmosphere. The wine glasses are staggered, the dishes are fragrant and laughing. The whole family is happy and immersed in happiness and joy. Generally speaking, everyone eats this meal slowly, and some of them have to eat it from lantern time until midnight.
As for the vast southern region, the New Year's Eve dinner is also highly valued. At that time, people will get together as a family and eat together around the table, which is called "New Year's Eve" and "family happiness". This New Year's Eve dinner, the food eaten is basically the same as that of northerners, and it is also chicken, duck and fish. At the dinner table, people should also try to say more auspicious words. Zhou is a famous Suzhou-Hangzhou scholar in Qing Dynasty, and he is the author of Gusu. Zhuzhici said, "Wife and children are talking in the same room, and fish, melons and eggplant are mixed fruit plates. I teach you to always listen to prophecy, and every family has a good book. " . It can be said that it is distinctive in style. Describe the happy and peaceful atmosphere at the New Year's Eve dinner.
In the New Year's Eve dinner in the south, the most local flavor is the number of hi dishes.
According to Jia Qinglu of Qing Dynasty, this kind of happy food is made by soaking dried eggplant stalks in water, adding various fruits and vegetables, and adding various seasonings. Wu people call eggplant, which is homophonic with music. Therefore, this dish is homophonic to pray for Geely's happiness. There is also a warm pot, which is basically the same as the hot pot in the north. Northerners eat hot pot as early as the winter solstice, and it is not fresh on New Year's Eve. Warm pots have become the highlight of the New Year's Eve dinner in the south of the Yangtze River, and they are also favored by people. Some local people write poems to praise them. He said: "The fire is cold and powerful, and the abdomen is warm." On the cold night of New Year's Eve, the family sat around the charcoal stove, and the stove was hot and the soup was fresh, which not only kept out the cold, but also made the festive atmosphere more prosperous and warm.