Shaanxi family banquets are generally four bowls and eight bowls. Four bowls are stir-fried dishes and cold dishes, and eight bowls are mainly stewed dishes and cooked food.
Only meat dishes in southern Anhui include braised pork, tiger skin, meatballs, moo Shu pork, steamed pork, stewed pork, pork liver, pork heart and pork belly products, as well as various fried pork slices and shredded pork.
Eastern Hubei is "three steamed", "three cakes" and "three pills". "Three steaming" means steaming whole fish, whole duck and whole chicken; The "three cakes" are fish cakes, meat pies and sheep cakes; "Three pills" are fish balls, meatballs and lotus root balls.
Harbin people generally fry eight dishes, 10 or 12 and 16, and the main ingredients are nothing more than chicken, duck, fish and vegetables.
Gannan's New Year's Eve dinner is usually 12 dishes.
Some places in Zhejiang are generally the "top ten bowls", seeking "perfect" colors, mainly chicken, duck, fish and various vegetables.
Nanchang, Jiangxi generally has more than a dozen dishes, paying attention to four cold dishes, four hot dishes, eight big dishes and two soups.
The food in every place is different!
In Suzhou, there must be vegetables (happy food), bean sprouts (Italian food) and celery (diligence) on the table.
There must be a carp weighing about 1 kg in central and southern Hunan called "Tuannian Fish" and a pig elbow weighing about 3 kg called "Tuannian Elbow".
There are two fish on the dining table in central and southern Anhui. One is the whole carp, which can only be seen but not eaten. It shows respect for ancestors and means more than one year. The other is silver carp, which is edible and symbolizes the prosperity of children and grandchildren.
The first bowl of Lai in Qimen family banquet is "Zhonghe", which is made of tofu, mushrooms, winter bamboo shoots, shrimp skin and fresh meat, meaning "harmony makes money".
There is a bowl of "chicken catches beans" on the dining table in Hefei, which means "catch money and get rich". The housekeeper wants to eat a chicken leg, which is called "grasping the money claw", which means making a fortune in the coming year.
The person in charge of Anqing should eat a bowl of noodles before meals, which is called "money standard".
Nanchang area must eat rice cakes, braised fish, fried rice noodles, eight-treasure rice and boiled thick soup, which in turn means rising year by year, with fish, abundant grains, string rice and eight-treasure rice getting rich year by year.
The first meal of the new year
The first meal of the Spring Festival in Hunan is to eat "rice cakes", which means "getting better every year", while a few Miao people in Hunan eat sweet wine and zongzi for the first meal of the Spring Festival, which means "life is sweet and the crops are plentiful".
In some places in Hubei, the first meal of the Spring Festival is chicken soup, which symbolizes "peace and tranquility in the Qing Dynasty". In addition, the main labor force in the family has to eat chicken feet, which means "grasping money in the new year"; Young students should eat chicken wings, which means they can fly very high; When family members eat chicken bones, it means "getting ahead".
Jingzhou, Shashi area, the first meal to eat eggs, meaning "well-deserved reputation, good luck." If you meet a guest, you should eat two half-cooked "poached eggs". You can see the yolk through the egg white, which means "silver is wrapped in gold, gold is wrapped in silver, and gold gets silver".
The first meal in Poyang, Jiangxi is to eat jiaozi and fish, which means "making friends" and "more than a year". Some people put candy, flowers and silver coins in jiaozi, which means "sweet life", "immortality" and "getting rich in the new year".
In some areas of Guangdong, the first meal of the Spring Festival is to eat "grain for ten thousand years", that is, to prepare enough food for a family to spend the Spring Festival for three days, which means "not worrying about eating and drinking". In Chaozhou, the first meal is often "rotten round" fried with rice flour and dried radish, and "five-fruit soup" boiled with Euryale ferox and lotus seeds, which means "life is sweet and history is long".
Zhuang people in Guangxi eat sweets at the first meal of the Spring Festival, which means that life in the new year is beautiful and sweet.
People in southern Fujian eat noodles for the first meal during the Spring Festival, which means "growing old every year". Eating sausages, preserved eggs and ginger in Zhangzhou means "the days are getting more and more prosperous".
In some places in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the first meal of the Spring Festival is a "spring dish" consisting of celery, leeks and bamboo shoots, which means "long-term hard work".
In some places in Anhui, everyone should take a bite of raw radish at the first meal of the Spring Festival, which is called "biting spring" and can "sterilize and prevent diseases and make the New Year auspicious".
In some areas of Guanzhong and Henan, the first meal during the Spring Festival is jiaozi's rice and noodles cooked together, which is called "gold thread running through ingots" and "silver thread hanging gourds".
There is a "long-year dish" in the first meal of Spring Festival in Taiwan Province Province, which is a kind of mustard with long stems and leaves and bitter taste. Some even add slender vermicelli to the dishes, which means "endless and immortal".
The New Year's Eve dinner in southern Henan was eaten until midnight. When the New Year bell rang, a plate of fish was served to show that it was more than a year. On the first morning, jiaozi cooked noodles together, which means money-oriented, which means making a fortune.
Shanghainese eat dumplings, rice cakes, bee cakes, rice cakes and cloud cakes. On the first day of New Year's Day, the fables are "getting higher every year" and "getting higher step by step". In addition, eating soybean sprouts (also called "ruyi cuisine") symbolizes all the best, and eating sprouted vegetables (soaked with broad beans) means getting rich.
On New Year's Eve in Sichuan, people usually eat hot pot. On the morning of the first day of junior high school, they eat glutinous rice balls, which means reunion.