1, braised pork
Braised pork is a necessary dish for ancestor worship. Eating braised pork symbolizes prosperity and wealth. Braised pork is also the best etiquette for rural people to entertain guests from afar. In the former countryside, braised pork was not cooked for no reason, and a pot of braised pork was cooked only when the guests arrived or worshipped their ancestors to show respect for their ancestors and guests.
2. Egg jiaozi
The egg jiaozi is golden yellow and shaped like a gold ingot. Every time I go to the grave to worship my ancestors, every family will wrap eggs in jiaozi, symbolizing wealth. Zhang Ailing wrote in "Half Life": "jiaozi and jiaozi are both gold ingots." Perfect for ancestor worship.
3. Oil tofu
As a fried food of tofu, oily tofu is golden in color, silky inside, delicate and elastic, and is made by grinding, pressing and frying. Oil tofu can be used as the main course of steaming, frying and stewing, or it can be embedded in meat stuffing for stewing. Whether it is a meat banquet or a vegetarian banquet, it is a good product. This kind of bean curd is shaped like a pocket, and there is meat in the pocket, which means that money comes quickly and the bag is homophonic. The older generation said that after eating oily tofu, each generation is better than the next.
4. Chicken nuggets
In the traditional culture of China, both dragons and phoenixes are mythical animals, and the image of phoenixes comes from chickens. "Taiping Magnolia" wrote: "When the Yellow Emperor, the phoenix was a chicken." Legend has it that chickens are Japanese, China and Ukrainian, and crowing at sunrise brings light, which means that monsters can be driven away. Therefore, when you go to the grave to worship your ancestors, you must cook a plate of roast chicken, which means no disease or disaster and good health.
5. Braised crucian carp
Fish is indispensable for ancestor worship or Chinese New Year. Fish and fish are homophonic, meaning more than one year. Therefore, every special time, people will make a plate of fish and use the shape of the fish to represent "more than a year" and "more than a year".