brief introduction

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 dinner that people attach great importance to. As the saying goes, hit a thousand and scold ten thousand, and eat at thirty nights. According to the traditional folk custom in China, the food of New Year's Eve is very particular, which usually includes wonton, jiaozi, long noodles, Yuanxiao and so on.

wonton

Eating wonton in the New Year takes its original meaning. Legend has it that Pangu created the world, making "light and clear gas for the sky, heavy and turbid gas for the earth", ending the chaotic state, and the universe has four sides. Then take the homonym of "wonton" and "mud hoard" to indicate that the food is full.

Chinese dumpling

It 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 the remote areas of 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 known as longevity noodles, 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 did not roll or press, but were torn into pieces by hand in the pot, similar to the practice of "crow's head" and "monkey's ear" eaten in the north. It was not until the Tang Dynasty that noodles were rolled with chopping boards that long noodles, short noodles, dried noodles, plain noodles, meat noodles and dried noodles gradually appeared. ...

On the fifteenth night of the first lunar month; Lantern Festival; night of the 15th of the first lunar month；Lantern Festival；yuanxiao

Also known as tangyuan, it is more common in the south. It is to knead glutinous rice into a round shape (different flavors of fillings can be added) and then cook it in a pot, which means round and round. Yuanxiao is usually the staple food of breakfast or New Year's Eve, and it is very popular in restaurants, hotels and at home.

In many places, some non-staple foods are also used when eating New Year's Eve, in order to have an auspicious taste. Eat dates (spring comes early), persimmons (all the best), almonds (happiness comes), tofu (family photo), three fresh vegetables (three Yang Kaitai), peanuts (immortality), rice cakes (rice cakes are getting higher every year) ... Of course, the variety of New Year's Eve dinner is more abundant. What is a chicken, duck and fish mountain?

According to traditional folk customs, China's New Year's Eve dinner is eaten in different ways: northerners eat jiaozi, southerners eat zongzi and rice cakes, and Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong eat Yuanxiao on the first day, or fry or cook; People in Zhangzhou, Fujian, eat raw garlic preserved eggs in the morning of the first day; Chaozhou people, Guangdong, ate the local "rotten circle" on the first day; Hui people eat noodles and stew on the first day of the first month, and only eat jiaozi on the second day.

New Year cake; rice cake

The custom of eating rice cakes during the Spring Festival originated in the Song Dynasty and flourished in the Ming Dynasty. Eating rice cakes, from the auspicious meaning of "sticky (sticky) high (cake) every year", is interpreted as the meaning of rising year by year.

fish

Eating fish in the Spring Festival is exquisite, which means more than one year, so eating fish in the Spring Festival is the custom of old Beijingers.

The custom of New Year's Eve is different in north and south.

There are many kinds of New Year's Eve dinners, including jiaozi, wonton, long noodles and Yuanxiao. , and each has its own emphasis. Northerners are used to eating jiaozi during the Spring Festival, which means "making friends when you are young". Because the white flour jiaozi is shaped like a silver ingot, the pots on the table symbolize the meaning of "getting rich in the New Year, and the ingots are rolling in". Some wrapped jiaozi and some coins sterilized with boiling water, saying that whoever ate first would make more money. The custom of eating jiaozi was handed down from the Han Dynasty.

According to legend, Zhang Zhongjing, a medical saint, saw that the poor people's ears were frozen and rotten in the cold winter, so he made a kind of "cold-dispelling Joule soup" to treat frostbite for the poor. He used mutton, peppers and some herbs to dispel the cold and warm, made ear-shaped "dumplings" with flour bags, cooked them in a pot and distributed them to the poor. After eating it, people feel hot all over and their ears are hot. Since then, people have followed suit and spread it to this day. Eating wonton in the New Year is based on its original meaning. Legend has it that the world was in a chaotic state before it was created, and Pangu created a universe with four long faces, also called longevity noodles. Eating noodles in the New Year is to wish you a long life.

Guandong new year's eve dinner

Keeping the ancient customs, Manchu and Han influenced each other: Cao Baoming, a famous folklorist in China, said that New Year's Eve is also called "the Year of the Group" or "family reunion", because after eating this meal, it is necessary to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, so it is also called "another year". In ancient times, people thought that the New Year's Eve dinner also had the functions of expelling epidemic diseases, exorcising evil spirits and strengthening the body. Therefore, the New Year's Eve is characterized by a family reunion dinner, which is attended by men, women and children. For this reunion, the family members who go out must go home before New Year's Eve. If they can't come back in time, they should leave a place on the table for those who haven't come back and put a pair of chopsticks to show family reunion.

The New Year's Eve dinner is usually the most abundant meal in a year among the farmers in Jiuguandong, and it will be ready on the 30th. There must be fish all over the table, which means more money, more vegetables and all the best in the new year. There must also be a bowl of braised meatballs to show family reunion. Cao Baoming said: "According to Zonggu's records of Jingchu times, there was a custom of eating New Year's Eve dinner at least in the Southern and Northern Dynasties."

Kanto people have always said that "the poor celebrate the New Year, the rich celebrate the New Year, and they don't eat jiaozi during the New Year". Changshi of Jilin Folklore Society said that jiaozi appeared as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Around the origin of jiaozi, people have produced different legends and stories. However, Kanto people have always advocated that jiaozi, the first meal of the Spring Festival, should be eaten at midnight on New Year's Eve. This custom is spread all over the urban and rural areas of Guandong and passed down from generation to generation.

Nowadays, many farmers in Northeast China still maintain many ancient customs, such as offering sacrifices to ancestors, setting off firecrackers and eating jiaozi. However, because eating and drinking on New Year's Eve is no longer important, Shi believes: "New Year's Eve has already gone beyond the category of' eating', but lies in the warmth between people, and the warmth is in the greetings and warmth of family members. I have nostalgia for the old year that is about to pass away and hope for the upcoming new year. "

Chongqing Tujia new year's eve dinner

It is essential to "buckle meat" and "pour sea pepper"

Just entering the twelfth lunar month, Xu, a farmer in Hongxing Village, Banxi Township, Youyang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, Chongqing, is busy. In order to prepare this New Year's Eve dinner, it is impossible to prepare some essential traditional main courses ten and a half days before. Among them, the most important ones are "deduction of meat" and "reclamation of pepper". Xu said that "pork-cutting" seems simple, but it really takes some effort to be really fat but not greasy, tender and refreshing. "Sea pepper" is to mix glutinous rice flour with seasoning, then fill it into the hollowed-out sea pepper, and then marinate it in a pickle jar for half a month. On New Year's Eve, take it out and fry it in oil before serving.

Xu told reporters that Tujia people attach importance to these two dishes because it is rare to eat meat several times a year, and glutinous rice is also a rare thing. Therefore, every household regards these two dishes as an opportunity to show their skills on the New Year's Eve, and it is also a reward for their families who have worked hard for a year.

Surprisingly, kelp once became the main course of Tujia New Year's Eve. Because of the difficulty in eating salt and poor medical conditions in Tujia areas in the past, people often suffer from big neck disease due to iodine deficiency. In order to supplement iodine for their families, Tujia people put a kelp on the New Year's Eve dinner to supplement the iodine needed by the human body. Under the conditions at that time, kelp was really delicious for Tujia people, and it was impossible to eat it often, so it became a good dish for New Year's Eve. Nowadays, kelp has already withdrawn from the "stage" of the New Year's Eve.

After Tujia people have eaten the New Year's Eve dinner, each family will light a handful of firewood. Everyone will sit around and listen to the old people telling stories, and they will stay up until dawn, named "Shoutian Ridge" to express their love for the fields.

Korean nation

"Old wine" and "Degu" occupy a special position.

Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in Jilin Province is the main inhabited area of Korean people in China, and the Spring Festival is also the traditional and most important festival for Korean people. Korean New Year's Eve dinner has its own traditional food and characteristics. Cao Baoming, a folk expert, said: "Korean New Year's Eve dinner is very rich, with 70 or 80 plates, large and small, and some families even have hundreds of plates. Among them,' old wine' and' Degu' occupy a special position. " On the eve of the Spring Festival, the reporter saw in the villages of Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture that many Korean villagers were brewing "old wine". 20 12 Jin, a 52-year-old villager in Mijiang Township, Hunchun City, told reporters that Koreans have the custom of drinking "old wine" on New Year's Eve. This kind of wine is mostly brewed before the "New Year's Day". The Lunar New Year is equivalent to the Spring Festival of the Han nationality. "New Year's Wine" is a kind of medicinal liquor with rice as the main raw material and a variety of Chinese herbal medicines. Used for drinking and entertaining guests during the Spring Festival, they think that drinking this wine can ward off evil spirits and prolong life.

The meaning of New Year's Eve:

On this day, people will get together for dinner. The annual reunion dinner shows the mutual respect and care among family members in China, which makes the family relationship closer. 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.