The customs of Cantonese people on the 3th of this year are: burning paper treasures to worship the gods and ancestors, setting off firecrackers, putting up Spring Festival couplets, eating New Year's Eve, keeping the old age, and paying dividends.
1. There is "fish" every year.
Fish is an essential dish at the Spring Festival dinner. "Fish" and "Yu" are homophonic, and you can't finish eating fish at the dinner table, so that you can have more than one year.
2. White-cut chicken
Since ancient times, there is a saying that "there is no feast without chicken". There are many kinds of chicken dishes. The most famous dishes in Foshan are Zhuhou Chicken, White-cut Chicken and Soy Sauce Chicken, which will be liked by more people during the Spring Festival.
3. Fried Dumplings
In Guangzhou for the New Year, you must eat fried dumplings. Huang Deng's fried dumplings are like a big fat boy, touched a little, and then rolled away. Therefore, there is a saying in Guangdong: "Fried piles are full of gold and silver", which means that eating fried piles can bring wealth to the family.
4. Roasted goose
In Guangdong people's impression, roasted goose is a traditional famous dish, with crisp skin, tender meat, fragrant bones, fat but not greasy, and mellow taste. If it is served with sour plum sauce, it will be more distinctive.
5. celery
celery means "diligence", which means to work diligently and live in peace in the new year.
6. Pig's feet
Pig's hands mean to get rich, and everything will be smooth and profitable, and everything will be rich. So this dish is also a favorite auspicious dish in Guangzhou neighborhood!
7. oil angle
Guangzhou people want to fry oil angle in the New Year, and they take the meaning of "wok" in order to make the next year as oily and rich as that wok. In the past, people in Guangzhou, rich or poor, always boiled oil at the end of the year. The size of oil angle indicates a safe family. The auspicious meaning of oil angle's symbol: it is shaped like a "purse", that is, a wallet.
8. Lettuce in oyster sauce
Lettuce means "making money" and "making money" in Cantonese. "Oyster black bean" is a dried oyster with high nutritional value, which is very popular in Laoguang. Used to make Italian starter "lettuce and oyster sauce", which means "making money and making a good market" in business.
9. Egg rolls
People in Guangzhou also fry egg rolls during the New Year, which is famous for its crispness. Legend has it that once during the Spring Festival, when every family prepared peanuts, sesame seeds, sugar and other fillings for oil angle to cook, one family was too poor to buy fillings, so they squashed the dough originally used to make oil angle into a frying pan.
Eating the family reunion dinner in China during the Spring Festival often becomes the main activity of most people during the festival. Sitting around the steaming dinner table, the whole family is full of joy and excitement, which can be regarded as the biggest feature of the folk Chinese New Year in China. The phrase "food is the most important thing for the people" seems to be more reasonable in the traditional Spring Festival.
the custom of reunion dinner in the north and south of China
Jiangnan custom
About ten days before the festival, people began to buy new year's goods, such as chicken, duck, fish, tea, wine, oil sauce, roasted seeds and nuts in the north and south, and fruit with sugar bait. New Year's rice should be prepared in advance before the New Year's Day, and placed in bamboo baskets, with fruits such as red oranges, Wuling, water chestnuts and gold ingot cakes on them, and pine and cypress branches inserted, which is called "New Year's rice". ?
Chinese New Year's food should be in auspicious terms. People in the south of the Yangtze River make tea for guests in the New Year, and put two olives in the tea tray or bowl cover, which is called "treasure-free tea". When eating in the new year, there must be fried vegetables, saying that eating "kissing hot"; Must eat bean sprouts, because soybean sprouts are shaped like "ruyi"; You must eat fish heads at every meal, but you can't eat them all. It is called "there are fish (surplus) every year".
Northern custom
A folk song says, "Candied melons offer sacrifices to the stove, and the New Year is coming". The first food to enter the festival is candied melons, Guandong sugar and other snacks used for "offering sacrifices to the stove", which are made of colloidal maltose and slightly sour in sweetness. This is an excellent food in times when life is not very rich. Moreover, there are candied melons and Guandong sugar at home, which indicates that the Spring Festival is not far away.
Of course, "Kitchen God" doesn't eat human fireworks, and this kind of "bribe" in the hope that "Kitchen God" will say good things in heaven and keep peace in the lower world "naturally becomes a thing in children's mouths.