The implication of New Year's Eve 12 course
Twelve-course New Year's Eve dinner is usually four cold dishes and eight hot dishes. It embodies three important cultural elements: reunion and family reunion; Celebrate the harvest of the year; Wish and look forward to what to do next year, including the expectations of adults for children. The connotation of reunion in New Year's Eve dinner is actually a way for a country and a nation to increase affinity and cohesion.
The dishes of the New Year's Eve dinner correspond to more "good intentions": yuba means wealth, tofu means wealth, lettuce means wealth, celery means hard work, onion and garlic hope that children can be smart and count, and the New Year's Eve dinner covers people's pursuits, hopes and blessings.
The New Year's dinner has already gone beyond the scope of "eating". The meaning of the New Year's dinner is not the meal, but the warmth between people. 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 engraved in the bones of the nation, warm in the greetings of the family and boiling in everyone's blood.
The New Year's Eve dinner symbolizes the longing for happiness, which comes from parents' exhortation and parents' expectation that their children who are working hard outside will come home and reunite. It is also the persistence and sincerity of countless wanderers who are facing the cold wind and stepping on the snow to get home.
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, where the whole family is drinking and eating, speaking out of turn and whispering, telling their feelings of parting and living.
What are the twelve dishes of New Year's Eve 12?
Of the twelve dishes, four are cool and eight are hot. Four cold dishes can be prepared according to personal preference, usually some cold dishes with wine and refreshing taste, or cooked food platters, braised pork and the like.
Pay more attention to eight hot dishes, including four meats and four vegetarian dishes.
One or four meat dishes should include chicken, duck, fish and meat.
The chicken stands for the golden rooster to announce the dawn, which is homophonic with auspicious meaning. Auspicious; Duck is an animal that heralds spring, which symbolizes this spring and beautiful arrival; Fish is homophonic with Yu, which means that there is more than one year, while meat means that life is rich.
Two, four vegetarian dishes should have Chinese cabbage, celery, leek and tofu.
Because food and wealth are homonyms, cabbage represents a clear fortune; Celery stands for hard work and wealth; Leek is rich for a long time. As for the homonym of tofu and doufu, it means that you can have more blessings and abundance.
Four kinds of cold dishes: cold Flammulina velutipes, braised pork platter, sashimi, cold preserved eggs, dry fried hairtail, cold frozen skin, chicken feet with pickled peppers, dried salted duck, sesame taro roll.
Introduction of New Year's Eve 12 dishes
Fish: Braised carp. Steamed bass, steamed crucian carp, braised silver carp, Sweet and Sour Mandarin Fish. Steamed wuchang fish, steamed fish head.
Chicken: three cups of chicken, saliva chicken, boiled chicken, braised chestnut chicken, glutinous rice eight treasures, saute spicy chicken.
Duck: Steamed Babao Duck, Beijing Roast Duck, Young Ginger Duck, Beer Duck, Cordyceps Duck Pot, Soy Duck and Roasted Duck with Mushroom.
Meat: Braised pork, steamed pork with rice flour, braised pork with plum vegetables, steamed pork ribs with glutinous rice, sweet and sour pork ribs, sauce bone, pot-stewed pork, shredded pork with Beijing sauce, hand-grabbed meat and braised lion's head.
Cabbage: Emerald cabbage roll, sauerkraut vermicelli pot, boiled cabbage, steamed cabbage.
Celery: celery lily, fried celery with fungus, fried dried celery, celery carrot and celery lotus root slices.
Leek: Fried dried leeks, scrambled eggs with leeks, fried river shrimps with leeks, shrimps with leeks, roasted leeks and egg dumplings with leeks.
Tofu: braised tofu, mapo tofu, preserved egg tofu. Fried tofu balls, sixi tofu, tofu soup, pot collapsed tofu.
The significance of New Year's Eve: auspiciousness, wealth, perfection and reunion.
New Year's Eve is extremely important for Chinese people. On this day, people are ready to get rid of the old and welcome the new and have a family reunion dinner. In ancient China, some prison officials even let prisoners go home to reunite with their families for the New Year, which shows how important the "reunion dinner" is to ancient China people. Eating New Year's Eve is the most lively and enjoyable time for every household in the Spring Festival. On New Year's Eve, a table was filled with rich new year's dishes, and the whole family was reunited, sitting around the table, and having a family reunion dinner, the sense of fulfillment in my heart was really unspeakable.
At this time, everyone's chopping boards are busy chopping meat and vegetables. At this time, the sound of chopping boards from every household, firecrackers from streets and alleys, the sound of "crackling" abacus and cadence of firecrackers from shops and shops, mixed with laughter everywhere, came one after another, echoing with joy, interwoven into a cheerful movement on New Year's Eve.
The characteristic of the New Year's Eve is 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 come 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 the family reunion.