On the morning of New Year's Eve, most Yuxi people will do something like this: go to the vegetable market or catch a fat castrated cock from their own chicken coop, slaughter it, remove its internal organs, wash it and put it away. In the afternoon, put the whole one in the pot and cook it.
This chicken is an indispensable protagonist of many Yuxi people on New Year's Eve. However, the rooster is not cooked alone. When the chicken is cooked, the radish is put in at the same time. When the radish is ripe in the middle fire, a whole washed green vegetable is put in. It is a whole, uncut, and it is the kind of big green vegetable that is more than a foot long. Mom said, handed down from the older generation, that this dish indicates auspicious words such as "In the coming year, the whole family will be honest and clean, and the whole family will be safe and long." After a pot of food is cooked, it is not busy to eat, and the whole chicken should be placed in front of the ancestral shrine to show its sacrifice. When the New Year's Eve dinner is ready, after setting off firecrackers and burning paper money, you can tear the rooster into shredded chicken by hand, or cut it into chicken pieces with a knife, and serve it on the table with homemade dipping water.
Under normal circumstances, this is an essential dish for many Yuxi people to eat New Year's Eve. Even today, when the living standard has improved, I don't know how many grades, this dish still appears as scheduled every year.
On New Year's Eve, almost everyone in China has an unusual position.
This day is a day to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new; On this day, it is a day of reunion; This day is a day to thank your family. On this day, no matter where we are, we want to go home, return to our loved ones and have dinner together on New Year's Eve.
The New Year's Eve dinner is an indispensable way for every China person who abides by tradition and has a nostalgic complex to celebrate the Spring Festival. Many traditional dishes have also become necessities for the New Year's Eve dinner. So, what traditional dishes do Yuxi people need on the New Year's Eve dinner?
Crisp flesh
Crispy meat is a meat dish that many Yuxi people like to eat on New Year's Eve. Locals like to cut pork into small pieces on New Year's Eve, mix eggs and wet starch into paste, sprinkle edible salt, pepper flour, tsaoko flour and star anise flour into the egg paste, stir well, then dip the cut pork into the egg paste, fry it in boiling oil until golden brown, and take it out. The crispy meat fried in this way, the fat is crisp, not greasy, and the lean meat is soft and chewy. The crispy meat fried on New Year's Eve can be eaten until the end of the Spring Festival, and it is not too greasy.
Boiled vegetables in chicken soup
Every year on New Year's Eve, many Yuxi people will have such a dish on the dinner table: radish, green vegetables, garlic sprouts, Chinese cabbage, leeks and other vegetables, which are cooked into a pot of miscellaneous vegetables with chicken soup left over from previous chicken cooking. Don't underestimate this miscellaneous dish. In the eyes of the older generation, it is one of the traditional dishes that must be eaten during the Chinese New Year.
When Yuxi people have a New Year's Eve dinner together, when they eat radishes, cabbages and vegetables in miscellaneous vegetables, the older generation will say "In the coming year, the whole family will be clean and honest", when they eat garlic seedlings, they will say "the whole family is smooth and profitable", and when they eat leeks, they will say "the whole family is safe and long" and other auspicious words.
Boiled chicken in white water
On the morning of New Year's Eve, most Yuxi people will do something like this: go to the vegetable market or catch a fat castrated cock from their own chicken coop, remove its internal organs, wash it and put it away. In the afternoon, put the whole one in the pot and cook it.
This chicken is an indispensable protagonist of many Yuxi people on New Year's Eve. However, after the rooster is cooked, people are not busy eating it, but they should put the whole chicken in front of their ancestors' graves to show their sacrifice. When the New Year's Eve is ready, after the firecrackers are set off and the paper money is burned, the rooster can be torn into shredded chicken by hand, or cut into chicken pieces with a knife, and then a proper amount of chicken soup left over from the previous chicken cooking is boiled with shredded ginger and chopped green onion, and then served on the table. Usually, this is also a traditional dish that many Yuxi people serve at the end of the New Year's Eve dinner.
You're talking about our Jiangchuan's New Year's Eve dinner, not Yuxi's pork, pig bones, chickens and ducks. Pork can't be cooked in one pot, otherwise the cold white meat won't taste good, and then the lotus root, radish, taro, mountain, green vegetables, mushrooms and so on are served in sequence. Only Jiangchuan people can't cook well. Yuxi people cook ducks with lotus root and mushrooms, which is not like Jiangchuan people. Cook a pot this year for 30 years, and people in Jiangcheng will eat it until the second day of February, when the floats are pulled. Most of them only eat it on the fifteenth day of the first month. Daxin doesn't cook in the first month, but they have to eat the leftovers of the year. This is called inexhaustible. It is not necessary to say that there is surplus every year instead of fish every year. This means that there is plenty of food and clothing. Only Jiangchuan people know this truth.
I think the most essential thing is long dishes, that is, a hodgepodge cooked in chicken soup, which contains green vegetables, green garlic, Chinese cabbage, and some bean sprouts, which means that it is also quite clear, smooth and auspicious, and these dishes can not be cut off, but can only be cooked whole leaves and whole pieces.
The indispensable dish for the New Year's Eve dinner is cabbage soup. No matter whether you have money or not, this dish is absolutely indispensable, otherwise it will not be called New Year's Eve.