When Hunan people celebrate the New Year, they should start with New Year’s Eve. On New Year’s Eve, they will definitely eat three kinds of chicken, meat and fish, and it must be big fish and meat.

The chicken should be stewed whole, and the rooster should be chosen. After stewing, put the chicken head upright; after the fish is steamed, sprinkle red chili on top, and do not finish the fish on the 30th night, save it until

Eating it on the first day of the lunar month symbolizes abundance and good harvests every year. Of course, chili peppers represent prosperity.

After eating some snacks on the morning of the first day of the new year, you need to prepare the rice wine made the day before, also called sweet wine.

The ingredients for sweet wine include glutinous rice, gauze, and wine seeds specially brought from Hunan, which have similar properties to all our fermentation yeasts.

A sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner is an indispensable part of every household. As we all know, there is a saying that people in Jiangxi are not afraid of spicy food, people in Sichuan are not afraid of spicy food, and people in Hunan are afraid of spicy food. The purpose of playing with words is to describe the eating habits of Hunan people who are addicted to spicy food.

Hunan cuisine loves to use chili peppers. Chili peppers can be said to be the spiritual totem of Hunan culture. There are also various preparation methods. The word spicy is the most important, and the color, aroma and taste are also taken into consideration. After eating, diners will be sweating, their lips and teeth will be spicy, and they will have a long aftertaste!

The famous dishes in this Hunan cuisine are all ordinary things, such as stir-fried chicken with ginger, fish head with Xiangtan peppercorns, Mao-style braised pork, etc. They are all economical and affordable. The price and taste are both approachable, so they are widely popular among diners.

Popular. A dish that every household will cook: Fragrant dry fried bacon. There is also a tradition of eating bacon during the Chinese New Year in Hunan. However, unlike Sichuan people who eat steamed bacon, Hunan people like to mix bacon with dried sweet beans or dried beans and stir-fry it.

, it tastes oily and fragrant, with a unique chewy texture.

Sometimes, winter bamboo shoots are also stir-fried with bacon, which gives it a fresh feeling in addition to the salty aroma.