In fact, this is not a dish, but a practice. Mainly put a lot of delicious food together. Known as the "stove" in Taiwan Province Province, Sichuan hot pot, Guangdong's potted vegetables, Fujian's Buddha jumping wall, Shanghai's family portrait, and northeast braised pork vermicelli. In my hometown of Jiangxi, there is a kind of bacon platter. This "hodgepodge" approach means a bumper harvest, ample food and clothing, and a big bowl of New Year's Eve dinner.
2, braised fish-more than a year.
There is a traditional saying in China that it lasts more than one year, so fish is an essential dish for the New Year's Eve. Eating carp on New Year's Eve is homophonic with "Li" and brings good luck; Eating crucian carp on New Year's Eve is homophonic with "auspicious", which means good luck. Eating silver carp on New Year's Eve is homophonic with "Lian", which has been circulating for many years. If you only cook one fish, you should eat it in the middle of the New Year's Eve, eat the head and tail on the first day of the New Year, and have more heads and tails year after year, which means a bumper harvest and wealth.
3, braised pig's trotters-hand money
This dish is included in many hotel packages and is called "making a fortune", "making a fortune" and "getting it easily". Besides good moral, the trotters rich in collagen are cooked with peanuts and Nostoc flagelliforme, which is nutritious and delicious.
4, meatballs-round and round
In Hubei, the biggest highlight of Chinese New Year dishes is all kinds of meatballs, which symbolize reunion. Other places will also have some meatballs, beef meatballs, Four Joy Meetballs, braised meatballs and glutinous rice meatballs. Besides being cooked separately, it can also be put in the first course to enrich the content and make it more reunion.
5, stir-fried green beans-peace in the four seasons
Mung bean horn, because of its bright color and crisp taste, has become the first choice vegetable for many people's New Year's Eve. In addition, its straight shape is similar to bamboo, so it is usually endowed with the meaning of "reaching the peak", "soaring into the sky", "thriving" and "peace in the four seasons" Moreover, this dish is light and can meet the dietary needs of modern people.
6, ribs rice cake-step by step
Like "getting taller every year", rice cakes have the meaning of getting taller every year. Eating New Year's cake means happiness. There are white rice cakes and yellow rice cakes, which symbolize silver and gold. Rice cakes are sweet and salty. I ate a golden cake inlaid with red dates in Beijing, but it was gone when I came home. There are delicious dishes such as ribs rice cake and hairy crab rice cake in Shanghai and other places.
7. jiaozi-Make a fortune.
Eating jiaozi is an essential dish in the New Year's Eve dinner. Jiaozi is also called jiaozi, which means that the old and the new alternate, and the child is a temporary beginning of a new day. In addition, jiaozi is shaped like a silver ingot, so it also means to get rich and get rich. Jiaozi also pays attention to the choice of stuffing. In general, leeks, cabbages and mushrooms are added to fillings, with leeks homophonic for "nine dishes" and cabbages homophonic for "hundred dishes", both of which represent wealth and mushrooms homophonic for "drums", giving people a full feeling and encouraging wealth.