On New Year's Eve, no matter how far apart and how busy the work is, people always want to go back to their homes and have a reunion dinner. Sometimes when you really can't go home? The family always keeps a seat for him? Leave a pair of chopsticks to show your reunion with him. This New Year's Eve dinner, also called "Family Fun", is a family banquet that people attach great importance to. As the saying goes, hit 1000, scold 10000, and have dinner at 30 nights. ?
According to the traditional custom of our country, the food of New Year's Eve is very particular? There are usually wonton, jiaozi, long noodles, Yuanxiao and so on. ?
Eating wonton in the new year takes its original meaning. According to legend, Pangu split the sky and the earth, making "the light and clear air floating up is the sky, and the heavy and turbid air is the ground", and ending the chaotic state, the universe is all around. Then take the homonym of "wonton" and "muddy hoarding", which means that food is full of hoarding. Jiaozi is one of the traditional foods in China? . Also known as flat food or boiled cake. In ancient times, there were only wonton and no jiaozi. Later, the 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 our country. ?
On New Year's Eve, as soon as twelve o'clock strikes, we begin to eat jiaozi, so it's the right time? , take its old and new alternation, the meaning of the arrival of the child. ?
We attach importance to the New Year's Eve dinner, that is, we attach importance to tradition and recognize our own identity. In Er Ya Shi Tian, it is said: "The young man is known as the ripe rice, so he is named after the old", and "Year" is regarded as a symbol of harvest, so everyone gets together to cook something good to eat, and this celebration has become the New Year's Eve dinner. ?
More importantly, this meal is in a form. When eating New Year's Eve, every family should have a dish, that is, whole fish, which means more than one year. In the south of our country, fish is the last dish of the whole banquet. People don't really eat it, but just put it on display and leave it for next year, which means that there is plenty of time. ?
In some areas, the whole fish is served as the first hot dish, and it is not until the end of the banquet that everyone symbolically eats a few bites. Fish on New Year's Eve is entrusted with people's good wishes for a prosperous family business and a surplus of money every year. Guangzhou people usually have Italian dishes such as "get rich first" and "get rich in the market" on the New Year's Eve table, but it's just a matter of winning the favor, but everyone still does it earnestly and devoutly. ?
China is big, and the customs vary from place to place. There are obvious differences between the south and the north: in the north, jiaozi is eaten on New Year's Eve, which means "making friends at a younger age" in homonym, and some put sugar in jiaozi to pray for a sweeter life in the coming year; Others wrap a coin in an individual jiaozi, and whoever eats it will make a fortune in the new year. ?
On New Year's Eve in the south, people usually eat Yuanxiao and rice cakes. Yuanxiao is also called "Tangyuan", "Tuanzi" and "Yuanzi", with a lot of sugar in the middle, which means a happy and sweet family reunion. The rice cake is made of glutinous rice, which means "high every year" in homophonic. But on this day, all the people in China rushed to this feast in unison. How can we not be moved? ?
New Year's Eve represents the supremacy. On the 30th of this year, the wise and sage ancestors in ancient times will also pardon prisoners to go home for a New Year's Eve dinner, because this meal represents a person's supreme right to truly live in the world, which is irreplaceable for China people. A few years ago, director Zhang Yuan filmed "Going Home for the New Year", which tells a story of human tolerance through the female prisoners' coming home for New Year's Eve dinner. Finally, the film won back a "humanitarian spirit award" for Zhang Yuan. The New Year's dinner has already gone beyond the scope of "eating", and the things on the table of the New Year's dinner don't have to be eaten for the New Year. The meaning of the New Year's dinner is not the meal, but the warmth between people. ?
The New Year's Eve is a symbol of happiness. No matter how miserable it is, it is worse than Yang Bailao. However, on the 30th of this year, Yang Bailao also wants to buy a red rope for Xi 'er and find a way to have a New Year's Eve dinner. Xi 'er's lyrics of "Dad brought back white flour and celebrated the New Year with joy" let my parents know what "the foreshadowing of tragedy" means in the process of remembering the bitter experience. ?
New Year's Eve means fundamental power, and overseas Chinese should feel the deepest. Indonesia once banned Chinese people from celebrating the Spring Festival. After former Indonesian President Wahid took office, the ban on Chinese people holding religious beliefs and folk activities in public was lifted. After more than 30 years, Indonesian Chinese were allowed to celebrate the Spring Festival without restrictions, re-embodying the joyful atmosphere of the Spring Festival and making this New Year's Eve dinner relaxed and comfortable. ?
New Year's Eve is the core centripetal force of China people, and the warmth of New Year's Eve is just such a kind of warmth that is engraved in the bones of the nation, warm in the greetings of the family and boiling in everyone's blood. This kind of warmth is the mother's nagging under the lamp on New Year's Eve, and it is also the persistence and sincerity of countless wanderers who are rushing home in the cold wind and stepping on heavy snow. People in China are most concerned about their closest relatives and feelings, and are deeply influenced by the "state of etiquette". However, in modern society, many family members go their separate ways for their livelihood and development, and it is rare to get together at ordinary times. What a pleasant thing it is to have a New Year's dinner together, have a family dinner, speak out of turn, tell the story of parting and feeling about life!
Kanto New Year's Eve: Preserving the ancient customs and the interaction between Han and Manchu.
Cao Baoming, a well-known folklore expert in China, said that the New Year's Eve dinner is also called "Year of the Group" or "Family Fun", because after this meal, it is necessary to bid farewell to the old year and usher in the new year, so it is also called "Year of the Year". In ancient times, people thought that the New Year's Eve dinner also had the functions of expelling epidemics, exorcising evil spirits and keeping fit. Therefore, the New Year's Eve is characterized by a family reunion dinner, which all men, women and children should attend. For this reunion, the family members or children who go out must come home before New Year's Eve. If they fail to get back in time, a space should be left on the dining table for those who have not returned, and a pair of chopsticks should be placed to show family reunion.
The New Year's Eve dinner was usually the most abundant meal in a year in the old Kanto farmers, and it had to be cooked on the 30th. There must be fish in the table full of tables, which means that there is more money and food in the new year, and everything is well-off. There must also be a bowl of braised meatballs to show family reunion. According to Zonggu's Record of Jingchu's Years Old, it was customary to have New Year's Eve dinner at least in the Northern and Southern Dynasties.
The Kanto people always have the saying that "the poor celebrate the New Year, the rich celebrate the New Year, and they don't eat jiaozi for the New Year". Jiaozi appeared as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Around the origin of jiaozi, there were different legends and stories among the people. 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 has spread all over Kanto urban and rural areas and has been handed 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 before eating. However, in recent years, eating and drinking on the New Year's Eve is no longer important, and the New Year's Eve has long gone beyond the scope of' eating', but lies in the warmth between people, which is warm in the greetings and warmth of the family. There is both nostalgia for the dying old year and hope for the coming new year.
Chongqing Tujia New Year's Eve: "Pork deduction" and "sea pepper filling" are indispensable.
Just entering the twelfth lunar month, Xu Wenxu, a farmer in Hongxing Village, Banxi Township, Youyang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, Chongqing, was busy. In order to prepare for this New Year's Eve dinner, it is impossible for some essential traditional main courses not to be prepared ten and a half days before. Among them, the most important ones are "deducting meat" and "filling sea pepper". Xu Wenxu said that "deducting meat" seems simple, but it takes some effort to be really fat but not greasy, tender and refreshing. "Filling sea pepper" is to mix glutinous rice flour with seasoning, then fill it into hollowed sea pepper, and then put it in a pickle jar for half a month. On New Year's Eve, take it out and fry it in oil before serving.
The reason why Tujia people attach importance to these two dishes is that it is rare to eat meat several times all the year round, and glutinous rice is also a rare thing. Therefore, every family regards these two dishes as an opportunity to show their skills at the New Year's Eve dinner, and at the same time, they treat their families who have worked hard for a year.
Surprisingly, kelp once became the main course of Tujia New Year's Eve. Because it used to be difficult to eat salt in Tujia nationality gathering areas and the medical conditions were poor, people often suffered 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 good for Tujia people. "Delicious delicacies" is impossible to eat often, so it has become a good dish on the New Year's Eve. Nowadays, kelp has already withdrawn from the "stage" of New Year's Eve.
After the Tujia people have eaten the New Year's Eve dinner, each family will light a 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: "Suijiu" and "Degu" occupy a special position.
Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in Jilin Province is the main inhabited area of Korean nationality in China, and the Spring Festival is also the traditional and most important festival of Korean nationality. Korean New Year's Eve has its own traditional food and characteristics.
Korean New Year's Eve is often rich, with 70 or 80 plates, large and small, and some families even reach hundreds. 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". Korean people have the custom of drinking "New Year's wine" on New Year's Eve. This kind of wine is mostly brewed before the "New Year's Day". The Lunar New Year Festival is equivalent to the Spring Festival of the Han nationality. The "Lunar New Year Wine" is a kind of medicinal liquor with rice as the main 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.
"Degu" is a kind of soup cake, that is, after rice noodles are steamed, they are mashed into large sticky balls, then rubbed into oval round strips, cut into thin slices, poured into chicken, pheasant and beef soup pots, and then some sesame oil or sesame oil and laver are added when eating, which is delicious.
On New Year's Eve, Korean women should wear beautiful national costumes. Most families start making cakes early in the morning. Although there are machines selling cakes now, they still like to make them by themselves with a cake hammer, because the taste is still different.
On New Year's Eve, it is a very happy time for the whole family to get together for dinner. The whole family will stay up all night. Different from the Han nationality, the Korean New Year's Eve dinner will be filled with songs and dances, accompanied by the ancient music of Gaya piano and flute of the Korean nationality to welcome the New Year.
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