New Year's Eve dinner is also called reunion dinner. New Year's Eve is extremely important for Chinese people. On this day, people are ready to get rid of the old and welcome the new and have a family reunion dinner.

Introduction

Family is the cornerstone of Chinese society, and the annual reunion dinner fully shows the mutual respect and love of Chinese family members, which makes the family relationship closer. Family reunion often comforts and satisfies the head of the family spiritually. The old people see their children and grandchildren in full house, and the family is happy. The care and hard work of raising their children in the past have not been in vain. What happiness it is. The younger generation can also take this opportunity to express their gratitude to their parents for their parenting.

When the children are playing and setting off firecrackers, it is also the busiest time for housewives in the kitchen. The New Year's food has been cooked a few days ago, and the New Year's Eve dinner is always cooked by the chef on the 3th. In the north, jiaozi on the first day of the Lunar New Year will also be packed out on the 3th night. At this time, everyone's chopping boards are busy chopping meat and vegetables. At this time, the sound of chopping boards coming from every household, firecrackers coming from streets and alleys, the sound of "crackling" abacus and the cadence of reimbursement coming from shops and shops, mixed with laughter everywhere, are one after another, echoing with joy, interwoven into a cheerful movement on New Year's Eve.

recipes

Eating New Year's Eve is the most lively and enjoyable time for every household in the Spring Festival. On New Year's Eve, a table was filled with rich New Year's food, and the family got together, sat around the table and had a family reunion dinner. My heart felt really full. People not only enjoy the delicious food on the table, but also enjoy the happy atmosphere. There are big dishes, cold dishes, hot fried dishes and snacks on the table. Generally, two things are indispensable, one is hot pot, and the other is fish. The hot pot is boiling, steaming, warm and sultry, indicating that it is booming; "Fish" and "Yu" are homophonic, which is a symbol of "more than auspicious" and also a metaphor for "more than yearly". There are also radishes, commonly known as vegetable heads, wishing you good luck; Lobster, fried fish and other fried foods, I wish my family prosperity, such as "cooking oil with fire". Finally, I will have a dessert, wishing the days to come to be sweet and sweet. On this day, even if I can't drink, I will drink a little. In ancient times, people paid great attention to the quality of wine when drinking during the Spring Festival. Some wines are gone now, leaving only many touching names, such as wine, Lanwei wine, Yichun wine, Mei Huajiu, peach blossom wine and so on.

Eating Custom

On New Year's Eve, no matter how far apart or how busy the work is, people always want to go back to their homes and have a reunion dinner. Sometimes when it is really impossible to go home, the family always keeps a seat for him and a pair of bowls and chopsticks to show their reunion with him. This New Year's Eve dinner, also called "Family Fun", is a family banquet that people attach great importance to.

as the saying goes, hit a thousand, scold ten thousand, and have dinner at thirty nights. According to the traditional folk custom of our country, the food of New Year's Eve is very particular, usually there are wonton, jiaozi, long noodles, Yuanxiao and so on.

Eating wonton in the New Year takes its original meaning. According to legend, Pangu split the sky and the earth, making "the light and clear air floating up is the sky, and the heavy and turbid air is the ground", and ending the chaotic state, the universe is all around. Then take the homonym of "wonton" and "muddy hoarding", which means that food is full of hoarding.

jiaozi

is one of the traditional foods in China. Also known as flat food or boiled cake. In ancient times, there were only wonton and no jiaozi. Later, the wonton was made into a crescent shape and became jiaozi. In the Tang Dynasty, the habit of eating jiaozi had spread to the remote areas of our country. On New Year's Eve, as soon as twelve o'clock strikes, we begin to eat jiaozi, so it is the time of the year, which means that the old and the new alternate and the time of the year comes.

long noodles

are also called longevity noodles. Eat them in the New Year and wish you a long life. All pasta in ancient times were called cakes, so noodle soup was also called soup cakes at first. At first, the noodles were not rolled or pressed, but the reconciled noodles were torn into the pot by hand, which was similar to the practice of "crow's head" and "monkey's ear" eaten in the north now. It was not until after the Tang Dynasty that the chopping board was used to roll noodles that long noodles, short noodles, dry noodles, plain noodles, meat noodles and dried noodles gradually appeared ...

Yuanxiao

, also known as glutinous rice balls, is more common in the south. It is made by rubbing glutinous rice into a circle (stuffing with different flavors can be added to it) and then cooking it in a pot, which means round and round. Yuanxiao is usually the staple food for breakfast or New Year's dinner, which is very popular in restaurants, hotels and at home.

In many places, some non-staple foods are added to the New Year's dinner, in order to get a lucky taste. Eat dates (spring comes early), persimmons (everything goes well), almonds (happiness comes), tofu (family photos), three fresh vegetables (three Yang Kaitai), long-lived fruits (immortality), and rice cakes (rice cakes and rice cakes are getting higher every year) ... Of course, the varieties of New Year's Eve are more abundant now. What are chickens, ducks and fish?

According to the traditional folk customs, the eating customs of New Year's Eve in different parts of China are different: northerners eat jiaozi, southerners eat rice dumplings and rice cakes, and Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong eat Yuanxiao on the first day, or fry or cook; People in Zhangzhou, Fujian eat raw garlic and preserved eggs on the first morning of the first day; On the first day of chaozhou people, Guangdong, he ate the local "rotten circle"; Hui people eat noodles and stew on the first day of the first month, and only eat jiaozi on the second day.

wonton

Eating wonton in the New Year takes its original meaning. According to legend, Pangu split the sky and the earth, making "the light and clear air floating up is the sky, and the heavy and turbid air is the ground", and ending the chaotic state, the universe is all around. Then take the homonym of "wonton" and "muddy hoarding", which means that food is full of hoarding.

rice cakes

The custom of eating rice cakes during the Spring Festival originated in the Song Dynasty and flourished in the Ming Dynasty. Eating rice cakes, from the auspicious meaning of "sticky (sticky) high (cake) every year", is interpreted as the meaning of rising year by year.

Fish

Eating fish in the Spring Festival is exquisite, which indicates that there is more than one year, so eating fish in the Spring Festival is a custom of old Beijingers.