How to eat during the Spring Festival in old Beijing: Beijing folk song: "When the new year comes, sugar melons are sacrificed to the stove, and the first thing to enter is the festival food." Tang melons are sacrificed to the stove, and jelly candies made from snacks such as Guandong sugar are sweet and slightly sour. Children live in less affluent times.
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Tanggua and Guandong sugar at home indicate that the Spring Festival is not far away.
Of course, the "Kitchen God" does not eat the smoke and fire of the world. This is the hope of the "Kitchen God", "God has created good security and peace" and "bribed the lower world to speak for" the natural children.
Old Beijingers pay special attention to "Celebrating the New Year", so they will appear: Wife, wife, don't be greedy. During the Laba Festival, it is the New Year Laba porridge. Drink it for a few days, with sticky sugar melons. Lililala 23, 24, 24, clean the house, 25, fried tofu,
Twenty-six, mutton stew, twenty-seven, kill the cock, the second 28, surface fat, 29, steamed buns, stay up all night 30 night, New Year's Day twist... "The ballad. The ballad lists porridge, fried tofu, stew
Mutton, etc., are all Chinese New Year delicacies. Today, these are common meals in old Beijing, but they were only a feast for the New Year in the 1950s and 1960s. Of course, the above foods were only available during the Spring Festival.
At that time, it was not only the food of the Manchu and Mongolian ethnic minorities in Beijing, but also the ancient custom of eating fish on New Year's Eve.
It is a fish delicacy product associated with carp, originally based on the name of the ritual and later the auspicious saying of "abundance and good luck".
As for New Year's Eve, dumplings are used to make vegetarian offerings and eat dumplings with vegetarian fillings. Everyone eats meat, and those who live in wealthier places use meat and vegetable fillings.
Even the poorest people's "program" of eating dumplings in the New Year is not small.
Dumplings, rice cakes, these well-known delicacies of "Old Beijing", they have cold dishes such as "soy sauce---pork skin, tofu, soybeans, mung beans, water, mustard, etc.", such as amber color, similar to "aspic".
In addition to "mustard dumplings", which are used to accompany wine and appetizers. During festivals, it is easier to "light a fire" when eating greasy food, and "phlegm" dishes can make up for this shortcoming. Various meat and vegetable dishes
Now Beijingers also prepare candies, nuts, seeds and salads for children. The so-called "salads" are today's various candied fruits. These small foods are used when people sit around the fire and celebrate the New Year's Eve's speech at the age of
gourmet food.
Today, the sacrificial offerings and traditional foods worshiped by the ancestors of this name are almost entirely preserved, but not so obvious.
As for today's Chinese New Year, the table can only summarize Sichuan and Shandong cuisine as "rich". Fresh seafood will appear in ordinary people's homes and on the table on New Year's Eve.
People who emphasize "new varieties" will go to the front of the big restaurant "to celebrate the Chinese New Year! Eat Laba porridge on the Laba Festival: the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, which is also considered a festival in old Beijing. For this day, the most important thing for every household is of course
There are several different versions of the origin of Laba porridge: some say it is to worship Shen Nong, some say it is to commemorate Yue Fei, and some say it is passed down from the emperor. However, the most widely circulated is that it is regarded as a commemoration of Buddha.
According to the Buddhist "Pu Yao" records, Sakyamuni became a monk and escaped from the palace. He was obsessed with studying the scriptures and hid in the mountains for six years. When he graduated from school, he was full.
In China, this begins in the twelfth lunar month of the twelfth lunar month, as is generally said in Buddhism.
""Cause and Effect" records Sakyamuni's six years of asceticism. In addition to personal food and clothing, he could only eat wheat and wheat, and could not feed himself all the year round. He graduated from the study period, a man in straw clothes and shoddy shoes, haggard. He walked tiredly
Under his Buddha Mountain, sitting in a Nepalese even riverside village begging, the Cowherd gave the Bangladeshi women in the village a bowl of milk, cooked food, and soon restored the Buddha to Sakyamuni.
Muni Buddha's body. After the prosperity of Buddhism, in order to commemorate this event, the ancient Indian people prescribed "Zhaiseng" and relief to the poor and charity every day on this day.
Buddhism was introduced to China, and on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, charity gradually became a custom-cooked "Laba porridge".
On the morning of December 8th, Shidong of the Song Dynasty sent Qibao-flavored porridge to various monasteries in Beijing.
"Seven treasures and five flavors porridge" refers to "Laba porridge" written in the Ming Dynasty, saying "Heaven". Some temples cook "Laba porridge" to commemorate the story of Sakyamuni, and Niger connected the bank of gopher women to relief. In addition to cooking Laba porridge for food
The people of the Buddha gave it as a gift among friends and neighbors. In ancient times, the ingredients of Laba porridge were red beans, glutinous rice, and later gradually increased. "Wulin Old Things" in the Southern Song Dynasty said: "Made with walnuts, pine nuts, milk, and so on."
Mushrooms, persimmons, shiitake mushrooms, persimmons, and chestnuts are like porridge, that is, "Laba porridge". So far, most people in the Yangtze River, Northeast, and Northwest of China still retain the custom of eating Laba porridge. There are many ingredients used in Laba porridge.
Kidney beans, peas, red beans, cowpeas, mung beans, millet, rice, sorghum, rice beans and rice are mixed together, add red dates, chestnuts, and other dried fruits to cook, and when drinking, add brown sugar, white sugar, rose, osmanthus and other seasonings.