Folk proverb: On the first day of jiaozi, the zygotes turn home on the third day, and on the fourth day, they stir-fry eggs with pancakes, and on the fifth day, they pinch the villain's mouth, and on the seventh day, they eat birthday noodles.
New Year's Day
1. New Year's Cake-New Year's Cake has almost become a necessary food for every family because of its homophonic "high age" and varied tastes. 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.
2. Wannian Grain —— In some areas of Guangdong, the first meal during the Spring Festival should be "Wannian Grain", that is, enough meals should be prepared for the family for three days during the Spring Festival, which means "not worrying about eating and drinking".
3. jiaozi —— Eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day is a custom of northerners, but now many southern Renye Fang have joined the ranks of eating jiaozi. Eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve means "having good luck in the coming year", while eating jiaozi on New Year's Day means having good luck in the coming year.
4. Tangyuan-the breakfast tangyuan on the first day of the New Year's Day must have more special significance. Its meaning is: everything goes well and the whole family is happy.
5. Noodles-long noodles, also called longevity noodles, are eaten on the first day of the Lunar New Year, which means "long life every year" and wishes a hundred years of longevity. Many elderly people still maintain this custom.
6. Chicken soup-drinking chicken soup on the first day of the New Year symbolizes "peace". In addition, the main laborers in the family have to eat chicken feet, which means "grasping money in the New Year".
7. sweets-eating sweets on the first day of the new year means that life in the new year is beautiful and sweet.
On the second day of New Year's Day
1. Noodles for the second day should be made with jiaozi noodles for the first day. And this side must be cold soup. That is, after the noodles are cooked, they are soaked in cold water, which is called cold soup.
Nowadays, people usually make noodles with gravy or fry some sauce to make noodles with gravy or Zhajiang Noodles. But it must be soaked in cold water to keep the custom of "noodles on the second day of junior high school"
2. On the second day of the Lunar New Year, my daughter (son-in-law) goes back to her parents' home to pay New Year greetings. Generally, you must eat things left over from the New Year's Eve, such as chicken. You should keep your head, wings, feet and tail on the New Year's Eve, but you can eat them on the second day of the lunar new year.
If you have a big dinner, you should cook it more and leave it for the second day of the New Year's dinner. There must be bacon sausages, fish and noodles.
3. In the north, the God of Wealth is sacrificed on the second day of the first month. On this day, both commercial shops and ordinary families will hold activities to sacrifice the God of Wealth. Sacrifice should use five major offerings, namely whole pig, whole sheep, whole chicken, whole duck, red live carp, etc., hoping to make a fortune this year.
New Year's Day
1. It is thought that millet is the birthday on the third day of the first month. On this day, sacrifices are made to pray for the New Year, and rice is not allowed.
2. As the saying goes, in the third grade, the zygote turns home. The zygote is a kind of Chinese pasta, which is popular in northern China, especially in Beijing and Tianjin. Leek, fennel, eggs and pork are more common, and the combination of leek+eggs, fennel+pork and leek+pork is the most common and popular.
generally, the dough of zygote does not need fermented noodles, but hot noodles and cold water noodles. The zygote is very popular because of its thin skin, big stuffing and delicious taste.
3. In some places in the north, it is popular to eat jiaozi on the third day. Because some people need to go out early at this time and rush to work, the famous saying of folk customs and folk customs is: "Go out of jiaozi and enter the facade". That is to say, when relatives leave home, they will eat jiaozi to keep them safe and reunite next year. The blessings of relatives at home are all wrapped in jiaozi.
on the fourth day of the lunar new year's eve
-on this day, the whole family gets together to eat folding baskets. The so-called folding basket is a hodgepodge of leftovers from the first to third grades.
In the past, people were not rich, and the leftovers on the first day were reluctant to pour, and the leftovers were "folded" together the next day. The leftovers had a special taste and some people liked them.
On the fifth day of Lunar New Year's Eve
jiaozi-eating jiaozi on the fifth day of Lunar New Year's Eve bears the implication that people look forward to good luck and happiness.
Old Beijing pays attention to it. When you eat jiaozi's meat stuffing, you must chop it yourself, as well as the vegetable stuffing. In this case, it indicates that everything will go smoothly in the coming year. Chop everything that doesn't go well. Jiaozi, who broke the fifth grade, paid attention to the fact that the stuffing was a meatball. The shape of jiaozi is oblate, which is very similar to that of an ancient gold ingot symbolizing wealth. Having a family reunion to eat "jiaozi" means that in the new year, we can increase our wealth and live a better life.
The Lunar New Year's Eve
has passed, and everything is back to normal life. So you can eat anything as usual.
eat birthday noodles on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month
The "Year Pass" on the sixth lunar month has passed, and everything has returned to its usual life, so you can eat anything.
The seventh day of the first month is "People's Day". It is said that Nu Wa first created the world, and after she created animals such as chickens, dogs, pigs, sheep, cattle and horses, she created people on the seventh day, so this day is the birthday of mankind. People eat "soup" made of seven kinds of dishes every day, which is called "seven treasures soup" In addition to eating "seven-dish soup", there are also foods such as "the first porridge" and "noodles" that symbolize good luck and progress.
eating noodles
in addition, some places have the custom of eating noodles on this day, which means to wrap the legs of the years with noodles to get longevity. In addition, the 17th and 27th days of the first month are also regarded as "personal days". The seventh, seventeenth and twenty-seventh days of the first month are the "days" for children, adults and the elderly respectively. Whoever wants to live the "days" will eat noodles.
Eating jiaozi
On this day, women are forbidden to do needlework in Linqing and Jinan. Eating jiaozi in Shan County in the morning is called "squeezing the mouse's mouth", and it is said that the mouse can't be lit at night, so as not to harm the people. Zichuan eats small tofu on this day, symbolizing eating mouse brains.
Chinese New Year's Eve
On Chinese New Year's Eve, people are released to pray. On the eighth day of the first month, there is a "release" activity, that is, some fish and birds raised at home are taken outside and released into the wild. The release on the eighth day of the eighth lunar month not only embodies the ancient people's morality of respecting all things in nature and living in harmony, but also expresses their good wishes for the prosperity of all kinds of creatures in the world at the beginning of the new year.
Beef and mutton on the eighth and ninth day of the eighth lunar month
Practice:
1. Cut the beef brisket, add cold water to boil it, turn off the fire after 3 minutes, and rinse it with warm water.
2. Cut the beef tendon, put it into a pressure cooker, add water, cook until it reaches SAIC, then turn to low heat, and turn off the heat after 2 minutes.
3. Remove the beef tendon after natural venting and rinse it with warm water.
4. Slice the onion and ginger, peel the garlic, and fry in the oil pan for fragrance.
5. Pour in old bittern or clear water, fragrant leaves, star anise, tsaoko and cinnamon, and boil.
6. Add beef brisket and beef tendon, and add cooking wine, soy sauce, soy sauce and rock sugar after boiling.
7. Turn to low heat and stew for about 2-3 hours until beef and beef tendon are tender and tasty.
drink stick porridge on the tenth day
Practice:
1. Wash a proper amount of rice.
2. Peel off the corn and wash it.
3. Put the corn and rice in the pot.
4. Pour in proper amount of water.
5. Boil on high fire, and simmer on low fire for about 2 minutes. Cooked corn porridge is sticky, beautiful and more delicious.
the 11th day of the first month (February 18th)
On the 11th day of the first month, it is dedicated to Zigu. Legend has it that Zigu was somebody else's concubine, and was jealous of her original match. She was killed in the toilet on the 15th day of the first month, and God showed mercy and named her Ce Shen. Zigu represents the oppressed women in feudal society and is regarded as the protector of weak women.
Eating fish is the beginning
Eating fish in the New Year pays attention to "having fish (surplus) every year". Besides, fish is not only delicious, but also has high medicinal efficacy.
Practice:
1. Wash the fish.
2. Add ginger slices into the hot oil.
3. Pour in the fish and stir fry.
4. Add some soy sauce.
5, put a little sugar.
6. add water and boil for a while.
7. Drop a few drops of delicious food before cooking, and sprinkle with chopped green onion.
the twelfth day of the first month (February 19th)
On the twelfth day of the first month, a light shed was built. Folk commonly known as "Twelve Lantern Sheds" means that the Lantern Festival is approaching. From this day on, the village managers will gather skilled craftsmen and young adults to prepare lanterns and do all kinds of preparations for Lantern Festival viewing.
There are ducks at table 12
People in many places in China like to eat ducks. For example, Beijingers like roast duck, Nanjing people like salted duck, and Sichuan people like camphor tea duck. How can ducks be missing from the table during the New Year?
Practice:
1. Wash the duck meat and cut it into medium-sized pieces to facilitate the taste. Remove the fat duck skin.
2. Put the duck into a bowl, add cooking wine, salt, soy sauce, ginger slices and onion slices, and marinate for 2 minutes.
3. Put the fat from the duck skin into the pot.
4. Press the small fire with a shovel and slowly squeeze out the duck oil.
5. When both sides of the duck skin turn golden, a lot of duck oil will come out and duck skin will be served.
6. Pour dried Chili into duck oil and stir-fry pepper.
7. Pour in the salted duck and stir-fry until cooked.
8. Pour in the soy sauce, stir-fry and color.
9, pour a bottle of beer, duck meat, slow fire.
1. Slowly collect the juice, pour in the green pepper and stir fry.
the 13th day of the first month (February 2th)
On the 13th day of the first month, lights are lit under the stove, and Yuanxiao is put in advance. On this day, people have to light a lamp under the kitchen stove, which is called "lighting the stove lamp". In fact, because the day of the lantern festival on the fifteenth day of the first month is approaching, the lamps made by all families are called "lamp holders".
Practice:
1. Wash and drain the shrimp.
2. Soak shrimps in onion, ginger and cooking wine for 5 minutes, and turn them several times in the middle to make them evenly soaked with seasoning.
3. Pour out the juice and keep the onion and ginger.
4. Pour a little oil and stir-fry the shrimp in a hot pan.
5. Stir fry slowly until the shrimp turns red, and add salt.
6. Add soy sauce and cook for one minute.
7. add green and red pepper rings.
8. drain the soup, mix well and take out the pot.
the 14th day of the first month (February 21st)
On the 14th day of the first month, the birthday of "Empress Linshui" was celebrated. Niangniang was born on the 14th day of the first month, also known as "The Lady of Shuntian". Legend has it that the empress surnamed Chen was a native of the Tang Dynasty, and later became a fairy to save dystocia women. Therefore, a folk shrine is set up to offer sacrifices, which is called "Our Lady of Shuntian".
Fourteen bowls of Zhajiang Noodles
When making Zhajiang Noodles, old Beijingers generally only recognize Liubiju and Tianyuan sauces. Handmade noodles should be used, hot in summer and cold in winter, accompanied by eight dishes that old Beijingers pay most attention to when eating Zhajiang Noodles, including shredded cucumber, shredded water radish, chopped Chinese toon, chopped celery, green beans, shredded Chinese cabbage and chopped green garlic. If you bite a few more. Pay attention to wechat "sea traveler"
Practice:
1. Dice pork belly, shred cucumber and radish.
2. Put a proper amount of oil in the wok, put the fat into the wok first, stir-fry the oil and then add the lean meat. Add a small amount of light soy sauce and cooking wine after the pot is fragrant. Put diced meat out of the pot.
3. Deep-fried sauce with stir-fried meat. First, boil the sauce until it glugs, and then slowly glugs with a small fire.
4. fry for about 1 minutes, then pour in the stir-fried diced meat, stir-fry for several times, and sprinkle chopped green onion when it is almost out of the pan.
5. Then it's time to cook noodles.
6. Then, put the dishes in boiling water for a while and take them off.
the fifteenth day of the first month (February 22nd)
On the fifteenth day of the first month, the silkworm (God) is illuminated at night. According to legend, the 15th day of the first month is the birthday of Lei Zu, the silkworm god, so this day has become a day for people to sacrifice to the silkworm god. Silkworm worshippers use rice congee and meat fat as offerings, and at the same time, they use a bamboo pole to carry a candle and stick it in the field, which is called "according to the silkworm in the field" (it is said that observing the color of the lamp can judge the abundance and sorrow of a year). This activity has gradually become a source of the Lantern Festival custom for future generations.
Fifteen families have Lantern Festival
On the fifteenth day of the first month, they go out to enjoy the moon, light lamps and set off flames, enjoy solve riddles on the lanterns and eat Lantern Festival. At first, people used to call this kind of food "Fu Yuan Zi", and later it was called "Tang Tuan" or "Tang Yuan", which means reunion and symbolizes family reunion, harmony and happiness.
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