1, Chicken: The homonym of chicken is "auspicious" in folk customs, and the New Year's Eve is indispensable. When picking, if you find that there is a red needle tip behind the chicken wings and it is dark around, you will obviously feel slippery when you pinch the chicken skin with your hands. If you touch it with your hands, you will feel that the surface is uneven, indicating that it is a water-injected chicken. Never buy it.
2. Duck meat: Duck meat now appears on the dinner table of the New Year's Eve mainly because of roast ducks, such as Beijing roast duck, crispy roast duck and salted duck, which are also prepared by northerners during the New Year.
3. Fish: Fish is an essential dish for New Year's Eve. "Fish" and "fish" are homophonic. At the dinner table, you can't finish eating fish, which can last for more than a year. Different areas eat fish in different ways: eating fish without eating the head and tail means "having a head and a tail"; Just look at the watch and don't eat it, or don't eat it all, leave a little bit, which means "more than one year"; Eating crucian carp with carp represents Daji (crucian carp) and Dali (carp); Eating silver carp is to connect children and grandchildren.
4. Pork: Many places have the custom of slaughtering sows in the New Year. Every year1February, at least one village will slaughter its own fat pigs to prepare for the new year's goods, and at the same time, it will also distribute these pork to its neighbors so that everyone can eat pork every year.
The second new year's goods: dried fruit candy
1, melon seeds: on the most grounded roasted seeds and nuts, melon seeds naturally do their job. The varieties of melon seeds on the market are eye-catching. The safest and healthiest choice is to buy original melon seeds. Cream-flavored or green tea-flavored melon seeds are cooked first and then fried, and the fragrance is cooked into the melon seeds. In the cooking process, it is inevitable to add some food pigments or flavors to improve the taste.
2, nuts: on holidays, buy new year's goods, of course, nuts are indispensable. However, everyone should be cautious when shopping. There are four kinds of nuts that must not be bought. First, nuts with heavy taste add too much salt; Second, "beauty" nuts may contain chemical residues; Third, stir-fry nuts; Fourth, moldy nuts.
3. Candy: Not candy, but year. Picking candy is a science. Children like creamy candy with delicate taste, the elderly like crispy candy full of fragrance, and children under 2 years old should not eat soft candy. These are all considerations when buying new year's goods. There are five dimensions in choosing candy: appearance, state, smell, taste and packaging.
4, fruit: during the Chinese New Year, many big fish and big meat dishes are easy to eat stagnation. Fruit is rich in dietary fiber, which can reduce gastrointestinal oil. Simply put, eating fruit can relieve greasy. Good fruits are generally of medium size. There are two colors (such as deep red and dark green) on the fruit that are too different. This kind of fruit is either sour or astringent, or it may be too sweet. If there are black spots and brown spots on the fruit, it is better to give up.
5. Pastry: Many areas in China pay attention to eating rice cakes during the Spring Festival, also known as "sticky cakes" or "rice cakes", which means "getting higher every year". Every household in Guangzhou will steam radish cake, water chestnut cake or rice cake first, which means "step by step"; There are egg cakes, walnut cakes, fried piles and so on. Among them, "fried piles are full of gold and silver", and fried piles are the best.