During the holidays, cook a meat dish with your children. The folklore story "On the twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, kill pigs and cut off the New Year's meat" refers to the main preparation of meat for the New Year on this day.

Pig killing means killing the pigs raised by one's own family; meat cutting means that poor families who do not raise pigs go to the market to buy meat for the New Year.

There is stewed meat in folk custom because people with underdeveloped farming and social economy can only eat meat during the annual New Year's Day, so it is called "New Year Meat".

"New Year's Meat" means eating braised pork, which means that the coming year will be prosperous and affluent. My parents recalled killing their parents when they were young, and their economic conditions were limited when they were young. They didn't usually eat meat. But on the 26th, they could finally eat "New Year's Meat".

-A steaming bowl of braised pork with the aroma of meat is what many people look forward to most on the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month. Early in the morning, grandparents take the children to the market to cut meat, and then come home to make braised pork, pork stew and vermicelli.

Stewed pork with dried plums and vegetables, etc. The aroma of stewed meat will fill an alley or a street. The tempting aroma will make people who are short of oil in their stomachs drool involuntarily. Today's children want to eat big meat to satisfy their craving.

Nowadays, our children eat meat and vegetables every day. Meat is no longer so rare. There is less expectation for meat, but there is more fun for parents and children to cook a meat dish together. Ingredients for braised pork: pork belly; white sugar:

Light soy sauce; star anise, cinnamon bark: bay leaves, minced garlic: green onion segments, dried chilies. Wash and cut the pork belly into pieces. Set aside. Place in a cold pot and stir-fry the pork belly. Keep stirring over low heat until all the fat from the pork belly comes out. Take it out and put a small amount of water in the pot.

Add white sugar and stir-fry over low heat until the sugar turns into caramel color. Add in the pork belly and stir-fry until the pork belly is evenly coated with sugar color. Add a little water to cover the pork belly. Add star anise, bay leaves, cinnamon, garlic cloves, green onion segments and dried chili peppers.

, bring two spoons of light soy sauce to a boil over high heat, then turn to medium-low heat and simmer. When the water is almost dry, turn to high heat to collect the juice.