But on New Year's Eve, breakfast and noon, there is really nothing to pay attention to.
Pay attention to, it is the first day of the first month to the third day of the first month. In the morning and evening of these three days, it is still generally to drink chuang soup, and at noon, it is mainly rice with at least four dishes and one soup, and jiaozi.
After the third grade, there is nothing to pay attention to. Just visiting relatives to receive friends, the staple food is rice, jiaozi and bread, but depending on the number of visitors, at least six dishes should be fried.
Different winds in a hundred miles, different customs in a thousand miles. There is a situation in one place. Let me talk about the situation in my hometown of southwest Shandong.
breakfast
There's nothing special in the morning. It's ok to have breakfast normally and eat jiaozi. By the 30th, basically every household has almost prepared the new year's goods. If there is anything missing, it will definitely go to the market to buy it this morning. At ten o'clock, basically everyone is posting couplets and pasting God's old stove, so it must be posted before lunch. If it is not posted, it will be suspected that there is something at home. If an old man dies for three years, it will not be posted.
midday meal
For lunch, our standard is cauldron dishes, which are stewed with meatballs, vermicelli and meat. Each family's stew is the same, but it must be served. There is also a custom that relatives, neighbors and elders must be given a bowl, which is still the case today. Now that life is good, we will also have a few side dishes and drink a little wine. Also, you must eat at home, which is probably a symbol of Chinese New Year reunion.
supper
After lunch, you are going to pack jiaozi. Generally, you pack more, and you have to pack everything you eat at night and on New Year's Day. Before dinner, every family will go to the ancestral graves to invite the "grandfathers and grandmothers" home to celebrate the New Year together to show filial piety, then burn incense and kowtow, and then start to set off firecrackers to cook jiaozi. The firecrackers must be lit at the same time when jiaozi is cooking. Dinner is jiaozi with garlic or cold dishes. Generally, dinner is eaten early, and the sound of firecrackers will be heard at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, which means that some people start to eat. After dinner, they just watch the Spring Festival Evening, watch the Spring Festival Evening, play mahjong, and have a party with relatives and friends to drink and watch the vigil. I remember that when I was young, all my family members gathered at our house. Now everyone takes turns to come, and this year they will be in your house and next year they will be in his house. Let's drink and chat, talk about the harvest of one year, plans for next year, and look forward to the arrival of the New Year.
summary
Now, with the changes of the times, some eating customs are changing, but no matter how they change, people's expectations for the New Year and their yearning for a better life have not changed.
I am from the south, so there should be differences between the north and the south, or the customs of different places are different. For example, in my family, I usually eat a little in the morning as usual. After eating, I put away my dishes and chopsticks and prepare for the New Year's Eve. We basically don't eat Chinese food here, because we all get up late, and breakfast and lunch are almost at the same point, so we only eat two meals a day.
After breakfast, we began to prepare the ingredients for the New Year's Eve dinner. If there are many people in the family, men, women and children have their own division of labor. Everyone is talking and laughing together, and we can eat them when they are ready, not in the morning or evening.
For example, when my family is basically ready, it will start eating New Year's Eve at around 6 pm, and sometimes at around 4 pm. After eating, the family will sit in front of the TV and watch the Spring Festival Gala, which is also a happy scene.
Eating steamed stuffed buns in the morning, taking a bite at noon and having a big meal at night are the arrangements for my family to have three meals a day for thirty nights.
New Year's Eve is the happiest day of the year. Because all the preparatory work was basically completed before the year, I was full of food and hung up high, just waiting to put on new clothes and eat. The most important thing is that the exhausting cleaning work has also been completed, and at most, a Spring Festival couplets will be posted.
After 30 nights, on the first day of New Year's Day, I have to be busy paying New Year's greetings, visiting relatives and friends, eating spring branches in turn in my family, and it will be my turn to entertain my relatives at home. The whole holiday will be very busy and I will not be able to relax. So only thirty nights make me look forward to it.
On this day, you can eat the long-awaited New Year's Eve dinner. The delicious and refreshing chowder, the dazzling platter, and the spicy braised large intestine ... In fact, it is very tiring to prepare too many ingredients and do too much preliminary work, but because my mother cooks the annual dinner in our family, I don't have to do it. Mom has worked hard (give me a hug)!
Every year on the 30th, my mother gets up very early. Make a good breakfast, which is usually a very simple breakfast. For example, hot a porridge, and then heat a few steamed buns, because during the Chinese New Year, every family here has to steam steamed buns, at least 100, and every family has to eat them for a long time after the New Year. During the Chinese New Year, steamed stuffed bun is the most convenient staple food at home.
At breakfast, my mother always tells us to eat more, because we are busy with the New Year's Eve dinner, so lunch is usually very late.
In fact, saying that lunch is late is a kind of "cheating" statement, huh. Because-there is no lunch at all, haha! We are very hungry when we eat steamed buns in the morning. We should know that the homemade steamed buns at home are very big and the stuffing is particularly full. One person who eats two steamed buns is really not hungry at noon.
Mother has made several semi-finished products in one morning. For example, chicken soup should be boiled out at the earliest and used as soup stock; The soup is also ready; Radish soup is also ready ... And I, just do some small things like changing eggs, peeling shells, slicing, washing shrimps, picking and washing vegetarian dishes, and I'm busy before I know it. It's noon.
People who are really hungry at noon can't eat the staple food basically, and mom won't prepare the staple food for this day (snickering) ~ When you are hungry, you can drink soup, soup, black soup and chicken soup, and just take a bite. A fashionable word-"full year" is popular here during the Chinese New Year. I am not hungry when I see delicious food every day, hehe.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, my mother officially cooked the New Year's Eve dinner. Generally the whole process takes about two hours. Our family usually starts eating at five o'clock, because the whole family is laughing and chatting together. This New Year's Eve dinner is often eaten for an hour or two. You need to pack up quickly after eating, because the Spring Festival party will start at eight o'clock!
Our family's New Year's Eve dinner is very rich. Because my mother cooks every year, the dishes are almost the same every year, but they are particularly delicious when eaten every year.
My family's New Year's Eve dishes: cold dish platter, mixed soup for the first course, braised glutinous rice meatballs, braised prawns in oil, radish and black bean vermicelli soup, braised large intestine, taro soup, beef sauce, sweet and sour pork ribs, braised mutton, stir-fried vegetables, fried lotus root cakes, fried spring rolls, and finally fish, followed by a green vegetable and tofu soup, which means innocence, smoothness and abundance every year.
New Year's Eve is a custom in one place. In the past 30 years in Northeast China, ancestors were worshipped, New Year pictures were posted and doors were pasted. Breakfast is not very particular. In the northeast, every family should steam bean buns, steamed buns, flower rolls, steamed buns and jiaozi before 30. Because the weather in the north is cold, they put them in a big vat outside and cover them with a big iron pot. In the north, they call it Nian Chewing Goods. When eating, take it out and steam it and eat it, which saves trouble. In the north, there are exquisite first days of the first month to the fifth day of the first month, without moving the knife. It is also a symbol of Chinese New Year. In Northeast China, the Spring Festival is full of flavor, and people have to visit relatives and friends to celebrate the New Year, so every family must buy good things for the New Year before the New Year, which is called busy year. When it comes to lunch at 30, the northeast people are particular about it. When our parents are here, we want the whole family to reunite. You can't have dinner without one. Before you eat, you should worship your ancestors, and the seats are also exquisite. Parents sit in the main seat. If there is any milk, I will sit in the main seat. When serving food, we also pay attention to it, cooling it first and then heating it. Don't underestimate the northeast people for the New Year. It can be called a stress. Although the conditions were not good before, every family can be rich in the New Year. In the past, we raised pigs at home, and there were many dishes to kill pigs before the New Year. In my family, there must be chicken and fish in the Spring Festival, and no chicken and fish will be a feast, and meat is indispensable. There are pork ribs, minced meat, south fried meatballs, pot-stewed meat, fried pork rolls, sausages, cold dishes and pickled vegetables. Fresh vegetables are very expensive in the North during the New Year, but people in the Northeast will still buy fried vegetables, fried beans, fried green peppers, fried garlic moss, fried fish, fried mushroom shavings, fried fungus, and cultured people will hang paste and cook some sweet and sour dishes. In short, this meal is the most luxurious and exquisite. In the north, this meal also has the meaning of robbing money. Whoever set off firecrackers first means that his family is here, dinner is ready, and money is coming. In the evening, the whole family wrapped jiaozi's treasure, and the whole family went into battle together for a while, and jiaozi wrapped it. The children played with lanterns to celebrate the new year's eve and distributed lucky money, and they wanted to eat jiaozi in the morning of the first day. After eating, you should pay New Year's greetings. In short, New Year's Eve is the most important thing for Chinese New Year.
To tell the truth, you can eat whatever you want, and don't waste it. Now that living conditions are good, there is no shortage of food and drink. It is good for the family to be happy and healthy. It doesn't matter what you eat, and who you are with is king.
Jilin people in Northeast China, we eat casually in the morning of 30, and then prepare the afternoon meal. We usually start eating at 1: 30 to 2: 00 in the afternoon. This meal is also our most abundant meal of the year. After dinner, those who can play mahjong and poker start to play, and the ladies at home start to prepare jiaozi and vegetables for midnight. Our family cooks six dishes in the middle of the night, including jiaozi!
Coordinate Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, to answer what our family eats on New Year's Eve!
breakfast
Rice porridge, steamed bread (wrapped at home)
New Year's Eve is winter, and we basically steam steamed buns in every household in winter. But this steamed bread is not the kind of big white steamed bread in the north, it has stuffing inside.
General situation: sesame sugar steamed bread, vegetable steamed bread, shredded radish steamed bread (sesame seeds, vegetables, white radish grown at home)
Special: bean paste steamed bread, meat steamed bread. These two kinds of minority bags.
This steamed bread, which looks like a big steamed bun outside, is not the wrinkled steamed bun sold outside. It is fattened (fermented) with alkaline water and then wrapped. I remember that this also requires technology. My father failed once, which led to my family having no steamed bread to eat in winter that year.
Chinese food (especially exquisite)
At noon on the 30th of the New Year's Day, we should respect our ancestors, that is, burn paper money, toast and kowtow to the relatives who died at home.
After a few minutes, I thought that my ancestors had finished eating, and then I began to clean up the burnt paper money and dispose of the ashes. Then I had to reheat the dishes and rice before I could give them to us living people. Chopsticks, wine and rice should be taken back to the kitchen, put away, and then served on the table, and the family began to eat lunch.
After lunch, the whole family will go to the grave with the remaining paper money, just like Tomb-Sweeping Day, to visit their dead relatives.
Dinner (reunion)
The night of New Year's Eve is estimated to be the day for all China League members, and they usually eat a lot. However, because there are more three highs in these years, our family really doesn't eat as much as others. Mainly eat hot pot, induction cooker hot pot.
summary
The customs of each place are different, but they all have their own characteristics. However, in any case, Chinese New Year is a time for reunion. It doesn't matter whether you eat well or ugly. What matters is the warmth and excitement of a family together.
Now the Chinese New Year is the same as usual, and there is not so much stress. At most, there will be more meat and vegetables at the reunion dinner.
Eat whatever you want, not most of them pay attention to it.