The reunion dinner is the highlight of the Spring Festival, which is not only colorful, but also very meaningful. Worship ancestors or gods before eating the reunion dinner, and burn incense before eating. Generally, chicken (with a plan), fish (with more than one year), oyster sauce (with a good market), lettuce (with a fortune), yuba (with a fortune), garlic (with a calculation) and so on represent good luck.
1, Jiaozi: Make a fortune.
In China folklore, eating "jiaozi" on New Year's Eve is an important festival that no food can replace. "jiaozi", also known as "jiaozi" or "Joule", means the alternation of the old and the new, and it is also a major holiday food that must be eaten. Eating jiaozi means "making friends when you are young", while "Zi" means "Zi Shi", which is homophonic with "Jiao" and means "reunion" and "good luck". In addition, jiaozi is shaped like an ingot, and eating jiaozi in the New Year also has the auspicious meaning of "making a fortune".
The choice of dumpling stuffing is directly related to the implication. The most common leek stuffing means long-term wealth, because long time means long time, which is the so-called long-term wealth. A typical Chinese cabbage stuffing in winter means a hundred treasures. Mushrooms have the most health-preserving effect. Wrapping them with dumpling stuffing means drum wealth, that is, drum rises and protrudes. Mushrooms are shaped like an upward arrow, or it means the trend of the stock market, upward and full, which means drum up wealth. Finally, there is sauerkraut that Nanjing people love to eat, which is said to mean calculating wealth.
2. Chicken: There are plans.
On New Year's Eve, a chicken is indispensable on a sumptuous dining table. On New Year's Eve, chicken is the first dish for dinner in many places, because it means good luck. There must be a chicken on the dinner table of the New Year's Eve, because "it begins with eating chicken". The local Hakkas in Guangzhou worship God, regard chickens and geese as their "firstborn", and all choose "take the chicken", which means that they are fierce in survival.
In order to reduce the intake of fat and calories, please peel it before or after cooking. In fact, there is a film between the chicken skin and the chicken, which can keep the moisture of the meat and prevent the fat from overflowing. Therefore, if necessary, the chicken should be peeled after cooking, which can not only reduce the fat intake, but also ensure the delicious chicken.
3. Pig gizzard: Good luck.
Pig gizzards represent a prosperous year, so every New Year, pig gizzards will be bought by old neighbors!
4. Fish: More than one year.
Because there is a traditional saying in China that there are surplus fish every year, and fish is an essential dish on New Year's Eve. Eating carp on New Year's Eve is homophonic with "Li", and eating carp in the New Year is very prosperous. Eating crucian carp on New Year's Eve is homophonic with "auspiciousness", and eating crucian carp and crucian carp together in the New Year is good luck. Eating silver carp on New Year's Eve is homophonic with "Lian", and eating silver carp in the New Year is getting more and more every year.
In order to eat more kindness for one year, you can eat two fish on New Year's Eve, one on New Year's Eve and the other on New Year's Day, which means eating more kindness for one year. If you make one, you can eat the terminal on New Year's Eve and the head and tail on New Year's Day, so there are fish tails every year.
5. Oyster sauce: a good market
In the south of China, there are many kinds of New Year's Eve, such as chicken, barbecue, Nostoc flagelliforme and oyster sauce, because Nostoc flagelliforme and oyster sauce are homophonic. Oyster black beans, also known as "dried oysters", are the dried meat of oysters (also known as sea oysters) and are a must-eat dish for Cantonese during the Spring Festival. Oyster soybean is the best food for calcium supplement, which is rich in phosphorus. Because calcium needs the help of phosphorus when it is absorbed by human body, it is beneficial to the absorption of calcium.
6. Shrimp: Laughing.
People in Guangzhou like to eat seafood. Shrimp will be an auspicious dish for the New Year, such as boiled shrimp and fried shrimp, because shrimp means laughter and laughter every day. A shrimp in the New Year makes you laugh every year.
7, long-term dishes: longevity
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". On New Year's Eve, people cut vegetables longer than usual, hence the name, which means longer time and more income in the coming year. Eating New Year's Eve means that there will be surplus next year, which represents the yearning of working people for a better life and the expectation of life in the new year.
8, celery: diligent
New Year's Eve is not only a family reunion and a good expectation for the coming year, but also an opportunity to educate children. Celery in long-term dishes is homophonic with "Qin", which teaches children to be hardworking, and only hard work can lead a better life.
9, pig hand: make a fortune.
There are many ways to eat pig hands, such as stewing pig hands, sending vegetable pig hands, peanut pig hands and so on. Because the hand of a pig means getting rich, everything will be smooth and profitable, and everything will be rich. So this dish is also the favorite auspicious dish in Guangzhou neighborhood!
10, lettuce: making money
Lettuce is homophonic with "making money" and is an essential vegetable for Chinese New Year. Put a golden fried dumpling on it, and you will make money with gold bars.
1 1, yuba: abundant
Yuba, which means "abundance", is also an essential dish on New Year's Eve. We all know that yuba is a derivative of soybean. Experts pointed out that compared with soybean, yuba is more easily absorbed by human body and has richer nutritional value, so it is a good eating habit to eat some yuba regularly.
12, garlic: it can be counted.
"Laba pickled garlic is eaten on New Year's Eve", and the garlic word of Laba garlic is homophonic with the word "calculate", meaning "can calculate". In the traditional Laba Festival, in addition to the custom of drinking Laba porridge, the custom of pickling Laba garlic on the same day is also popular in the northern region. When it is opened on New Year's Eve, bright white and green Laba garlic will try to eat jiaozi, which is called a compliment.
Laba garlic has the function of removing greasy and fishy smell, tastes sweet and sour, and can also stimulate appetite when eaten with rice. However, because Laba garlic is pickled with vinegar, eating too much may cause certain corrosion to teeth. In addition, people with bad stomachs should also pay attention to eating Laba garlic, which is not conducive to stomach health.
13, roasted meat: booming.
Barbecue is very popular with the old people, and the skin is crispy and the meat is fragrant. People in Guangzhou like to eat this dish on New Year's Eve, because burning meat means that your skin is red and firm, which means that you are thriving every day. This is a good Italian dish.
14, rice cake: high every year.
Preparing New Year's cake is to show happiness. Because of its homophonic "high age" and diverse tastes, rice cakes have almost become a must-have food for every household. The styles of rice cakes are square yellow and white rice cakes, which symbolize gold and silver and express the meaning of making a fortune in the New Year.
The rice cakes in the north are mainly sweet, steamed or fried, and some people simply eat them with sugar. The rice cakes in the south are sweet and salty. For example, the rice cakes in Suzhou and Ningbo are made of japonica rice and have a light taste. Besides steaming and frying, you can also slice and fry or cook soup. Sweet rice cake is made of glutinous rice flour with white sugar, lard, rose, osmanthus, mint, mashed vegetables and other ingredients. They are fine in workmanship and can be steamed directly or fried with egg white.