--Eating soup dumplings on the first day of the Lunar New Year Breakfast on the first day of the Lunar New Year, Yangzhou people attach great importance to. Although Yangzhou people have to the teahouse to eat morning tea, but the first morning is an exception, people generally do not go out, to be at home with the family, eat a bowl of steaming soup dumplings. Yangzhou soup dumplings in a variety of ways, there is a kind of dumplings called "four happy dumplings", is a favorite in the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, this dumplings with four kinds of filling made of vegetables, bean paste, sesame sugar and minced meat. The taste is good, but the name of the dumplings is more important to people, because the meaning of these "Four Happiness Dumplings" is: "Everything is as it should be" and "Family Reunion". Similar to the "Four Happiness Dumplings", Yangzhou people in the old days also had the custom of eating "lucky eggs" on the morning of the first day of the year. Yangzhou commentary "Pi five spicy" chapter 27 there is a narrative: to the fourth day of the night, the cold is heavier. At this time, someone shouted from afar: "Sell ----- good luck eggs!" What is a good luck egg? That is, the eggs are cooked, the eggshell painted with figures and landscapes, with red and green colors; or write some words, what "good luck and good luck", "year after year, as you wish" ...... this egg is called good luck and good luck eggs. Once upon a time, during the New Year's Eve, there were eggs for sale everywhere, and every family had to buy them. The buyers came and sent good luck on behalf of the family members. The head of the family, lying on the bed with his face turned to the sky, the woman put the lucky egg on the door of the man's heart and said something about good luck! "Good luck, good fortune, good luck"! All things go well ah! ...... and so on, and then asked the man to eat the egg, the year as expected. ...... The vendors who sold the "lucky eggs" have long since disappeared, so most people in Yangzhou today don't know what the "lucky eggs" are all about, which is a great pity. According to the description in the Yangzhou commentary, there are also figures and landscapes painted on the eggshell, so it is not so much a lost seasonal food as a lost folk craft. --- on the lamp rounds fall lamp noodles Lantern Festival Lantern Festival on the 15th of the first month, Yangzhou area has "on the lamp rounds fall lamp noodles," said that this refers to the first month of the 13th of this night is on the lamp, on the lamp to eat dumplings, the first month of the 18th of the night is to fall lamps, falling lamps to eat noodles. Why this food custom? The people's explanation is that eating dumplings to symbolize "full circle", eat noodles to symbolize "smooth smooth smooth". The "dumplings" here are also known as the "Lantern Festival". Nowadays, Yangzhou people call the solid glutinous rice ball "Yuanxiao" and the glutinous rice ball with filling "Tangyuan". Not so in the old days, there is filling also called "Lantern Festival", "Zhenzhou bamboo stick lyrics quoted" said: "Lantern Festival, rolling glutinous rice flour, wrapped in cinnamon brine in the ball, so like the moon also." It seems that because "like the moon is also", Yangzhou people will be "Lantern Festival" called "dumplings". The meaning of "fullness" is also derived from eating soup dumplings. Eat noodles is in the first month of the eighteenth night of the lamp, "real state bamboo stick lyrics citation" also cloud: "eighteen day lamp, people eat noodles, commonly known as on the lamp on the lamp round face. Also home for the feast, to celebrate. Nineteen days to worship Tibetan images, wash away the joy, joy commonly known as hanging music, proverb: family tear hanging music, everyone looking for the whereabouts. Scholar is to attack the book, the workers are back to the restaurant, and the year to finish." This passage does not directly explain why the eighteenth day of the first month to eat noodles, but the answer is already implied: the eighteenth day of the first month, "the year to finish", from now on to "everyone looking for the whereabouts", "the scholar is to attack the book, the workers are Return to the restaurant", eat a bowl of noodles, is to wish people in the upcoming career, all things can be like eating noodles, "smooth smooth smooth". Eating soup dumplings or eating noodles is Yangzhou people's self-design and self-arrangement of daily life. Being able to find the meaning of auspiciousness and good fortune from the simple image of food is what makes Yangzhou people unique. --In the first month of the lunar year, Yangzhou people also have the custom of "inviting the spring goblet" and "making a meeting with the God of Fortune". There is a poem "Inviting Spring Goblet Wine" in Volume 5 of Generali 300 Purines, which reads: "Once the spring breeze arrives, it will be prosperous, and I will be busy making a spring plate to boast of the different flavors. The spring breeze is very prosperous when it arrives, and I am busy making the spring plate full of different flavors. I am very happy to be flushed with spring colors, and I am happy to be at your home this year." The citation of this poem says it more clearly: "Yangcheng banquet is full of, before and after the New Year's Lantern Festival banquet friends and relatives, the name is: spring doom." In the "Introduction to the Bamboo Words of Zhenzhou", it is also written: "Gentlemen banquets are said to 'invite the spring goblet'; shopkeepers banquets are said to 'do the God of Wealth'." The goblet is an ancient wine container. In modern language, "Inviting the Spring Goblet" means inviting guests to a banquet during the New Year. Only in the "Introduction to the Bamboo Shoots of Zhenzhou", the people who gathered for the feast were divided into two categories, one was the gentlemen and the other was the shopkeepers, and the purpose of the feast was different, but the form was the same. Nowadays, people don't divide them into two categories. "Inviting the spring goblet" and "making a meeting with the God of Fortune" are all called "inviting the New Year's Eve wine". In fact, "inviting wine for the New Year Festival" is an ancient custom that has existed since the Tang Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, the monk Daoshi said in Dharma Garden Pearl Forest: "The custom of Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty was that after New Year's Day, people were invited to drink wine and invited each other to meet, and this was known as the "Passing of the Wine" (Qingjialu, Volume 1). (Qingjialu, Volume 1) Today, more than a thousand years later, the custom of "inviting New Year's Day wine" is still prevalent, especially in the countryside, people in the second day of the first month of the first friends and relatives and neighbors began to invite each other, you invite me, and then I invite you back, and have to invite each other to the eighteenth day of the first month of the first month. The "New Year's Day Wine" is a kind of etiquette of the New Year, but also a need of the people's practical life. The meaning is threefold. First, it is a special respect for the guests during the New Year when they are invited to the New Year's Eve. The second is that during the Spring Festival, there are more dishes at home, and the treats are more plentiful at this time. Thirdly, Yangzhou is a commercially developed city since ancient times, Yangzhou people and foreign contacts, work in foreign countries, folks usually rare to meet, please "New Year's Day wine" is to facilitate the gathering of everyone. Of course, nowadays people are more likely to take the opportunity of inviting wine to exchange business information and discuss ways to make money. In this sense, it is still reasonable to say that inviting "New Year's Day Wine" in the "Introduction to Bamboo Words of Zhenzhou" is a "meeting of the God of Wealth". --There is a proverb that says, "On March 3, the caper flowers are like peonies." There is a proverb that says, "On the third day of March, shepherd's purse flowers are as beautiful as peony flowers. In the old days, some women especially liked to put caper flowers in their hair as a fashionable headdress. Of course, Yangzhou people pick and dig chestnut in early spring, not simply for the flowers to look good, this chestnut is also a favorite wild vegetables. The young plants of capers can be eaten, with capers made of spring rolls, spring pancakes, etc. are seasonal food. Shepherd's purse is wild in the field, mostly born in the ridge, riverbanks, corners, roadsides, Yangzhou suburbs almost everywhere in the wild. When spring comes, shepherd's purse blooms tiny white flowers, very eye-catching in the wild. New Year's Yangzhou people and the custom of countryside trekking, trekking, many women and children while viewing the new spring scenery, while picking and digging chestnuts, both pleasing to the eye, but also to get the benefits. Farmers of course, also want to pick and dig chestnut, in addition to their own taste, more is picked on the street to sell. At the same time on the street to sell the Malan head, Chinese wolfberry buds and toon buds, these are early spring wild vegetables. Nowadays, people eat wild vegetables, is to change the taste, but the old wild vegetables is the main food of people in the spring famine. Ming Dynasty, there is a prose song everyone called Wang Pan, is a person in Gaoyou, his famous song [Chaotianzi] "Wing Horn": "...... official boat to and fro chaotic as hemp, all rely on you to raise the price of sound". It has always been known to people. In his time, the spring shortage is common, in order to facilitate the poor picking wild vegetables for desertion, he intentionally pay attention to a variety of edible grasses, like Li Shizhen tasted all kinds of grasses, the preparation of the "Compendium of Materia Medica", Wang Pan is also the grasses one by one, eye test, taste, and finally compiled a "recipe for wild vegetables". This "Wild Vegetable Spectrum" total **** included fifty-two kinds of wild vegetables, in addition to the caper, Malan head, wolfberry head, there are Artemisia vulgaris, horsetail, gray ash, dandelion and so on. The whole book adopts the organization of the accompanying text with pictures, detailed introduction to the wild vegetables of the harvesting time and eating methods, a little literate people can understand at a glance. For example, the white drum nail is known as dandelion, which can be found in all seasons, except on extremely cold days, when it is small and usable, and is picked and cooked for food. At the end of the text, there is also a short poem, the name of the wild vegetables to rise, lamenting the plight of the people, such as: -- hold Niang Artemisia hold Niang Artemisia, knot root firm, do not unravel, such as paint glue. You don't see yesterday's child sold on the passenger ship, the child hugged his mother crying and refused to let go. The same wild vegetables, nowadays is to taste fresh, the ancients is to degree of desertion. The taste in the mouth, worlds apart. --Duanwu Zongzi and twelve red Zongzi is the food of the Dragon Boat Festival, initially the Dragon Boat Festival in the dragon boat as a sacrifice to the river. Why should the dumplings be scattered into the river? Folk have a variety of explanations, some say it is to worship Qu Yuan; some say it is to expel the dragon, the argument is not the same. As a widely spread, long history of folklore phenomenon, a variety of explanations coexist is a normal phenomenon. Yangzhou people have always taken zongzi as seasonal food, and around the Dragon Boat Festival, almost every family has to wrap zongzi. Ganjiang 300呤" Volume IX introduced the package of ham dumplings method: dumplings with glutinous rice plus Ruo package, the northern province to fruit and chestnut and rice boiled, cold food. Yangzhou is to chopped ham and rice wrapped, once cooked, Shen immersed lush carry. It was followed by a poem: a string of rice dumplings, the name of the Corn Tong. Dolphin steam and round-grained rice, white and creamy through the fiber red. Fine Ruo green wrapped, thick fragrance particles melt. Lanjiang pickled preserved expensive, know the flavor of easy teeth with. Now Yangzhou people wrapped zongzi method more, glutinous rice in addition to mixed into the ham, according to the taste of each person, like meat can be mixed into salted meat, fresh meat, etc., with shrimp soy sauce and mix. Like vegetarian can be mixed into red beans, fava beans, dates, etc., food can also be dipped in sugar. Shape is also diverse, are using bamboo Ruo, but can wrap out the axe-shaped, small foot-shaped, cylindrical, triangular, and pay attention to the tight package, wrapped solid, the more compact flavor the better. Yangzhou people pack zongzi is mostly women hands, after the package is often zongzi as a gift to each other. People taste the flavor of the zongzi and appreciate the women's craftsmanship. Dragon Boat Festival this day, Yangzhou people's lunch table, will be served on the table called "twelve red" dishes, the so-called "twelve red" is burnt red with soy sauce, mixed with red or natural red dishes, there are four bowls of eight dishes, four bowls of: braised yellow croaker, braised beef, braised trotters The four bowls are: braised yellow fish, braised beef, braised pork knuckles, and braised chicken. Eight dishes, four cold and four hot. Four cold: salted eggs, sausage, lettuce, flowers and radish. Four hot: fried amaranth, fried shrimp, fried rice noodles, fried eel. Here is only a list, life is not fixed, but there are coarse and fine points. When it comes to "burning yellowtail", Yangzhou people seem to be particularly favored, and even have "when the pants, buy yellowtail" folk proverb. Zhenzhou bamboo stick lyrics" in the "buy yellowtail" a word, Yun: "return to low with the fine gentleman said, new to the yellowtail market clamor. I am afraid that there is no place to buy them when they are out of date, so I would like to teach them to be Ruan Lang pants." Pawn off the pants to buy yellowtail, only an exaggeration, but also shows that the yellowtail is indeed a delicious seasonal dish, loved by Yangzhou people. --Mid-Autumn Mooncake Mid-Autumn Mooncake, now is the major shopping malls and food stores seasonal commodities, colorful varieties, in recent years, some of the star-rated hotels also joined the ranks of the mooncake competitions, have launched their own special mooncake. Yangzhou people around the area and more like sweets, sweet moon cakes have become the Yangzhou people Mid-Autumn Festival gifts, visiting friends and relatives always carry a few boxes. In the old days, mooncakes in Yangzhou were produced by tea stores with a long history. Zang Gu, a Qing dynasty scholar, wrote in his "Renewal of Yangzhou Bamboo Shoots": "Several mooncakes are the most famous, and I hope that they will not be sold at the Mid-Autumn Festival. Crispy ham and dried vegetables are beautiful, and the price per catty is clear." This is the mooncake produced by this kind of tea store. Yangzhou's traditional mooncake is the Soviet-style, Soviet-style mooncakes have pretzels, five kernels, ham, bean paste, on the vegetarian and many other varieties, which is characterized by a crispy outer skin, soft filling, sweet and oily. Nowadays, Yangzhou mooncake varieties are more, in addition to the Soviet-style mooncakes, there are Cantonese-style mooncakes, Beijing-style mooncakes, etc., more varieties of dazzling. Yangzhou people also have the custom of wrapping their own sugar cakes, radish cakes and rotten flour biscuits, of which there must be an extra-large piece, called "Palace Cake", also known as "reunion cake", which is a piece of cake that is shared by the whole family after the women pay homage to the moon. The sugar cakes and pies in Yangzhou people's homes are probably a remnant of the ancient "moon cakes". A poem by Su Dongpo of the Song Dynasty reads: "Small cakes are like chewing the moon, with crisps and syrups in them." Huang Dingming of the Qing Dynasty wrote in his poem "Looking at the South of the Yangtze River": "Yangzhou is good, and the twilight scene is the Mid-Autumn Festival. The size of the tower lamps star flame spit, group Luan Palace cake moon marks stay, song blowing bamboo west ghost." Probably all refer to the people of Yangzhou home of this sweetened and crispy small round cake. About moon cakes, Yangzhou, there are several folk legends. One is that at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang called on the people to revolt, hiding the flag of righteousness in the mooncake under the mutual transmission, to the Mid-Autumn Festival, every household hung out the flag of the Ming Dynasty, the Yuan soldiers were defeated without a fight. There is another story related to Zhang Shicheng. Zhang Shicheng organized a peasant revolt in the salt farms east of Yangzhou and occupied Gaoyou in Yangzhou, where he established his state under the name "Zhou". Zhang Shicheng's uprising took advantage of the custom of giving mooncakes to each other during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and put a small piece of paper underneath the mooncakes with the words "Kill the Tartars in Mid-Autumn", so the people received the mooncakes and saw the note, and then rose up on the night of Mid-Autumn. Therefore, to this day, mooncakes in Yangzhou are lined with a small piece of paper underneath. Today, people's standard of living has improved a lot, the food pay attention to taste, pay attention to nutrition, Yangzhou's traditional mooncake is high in oil and heavy sugar, is not suitable for high-quality life needs. However, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, Yangzhou's traditional mooncakes are still very popular among the people, which shows that the folk custom has a relatively solid inheritance. --Chrysanthemum Cake In the 1960s and 1970s, during the Cultural Revolution, even the Chrysanthemum Cake was rare, and the Chrysanthemum Flag inserted on the cake was even more extinct, and many young people didn't even know what the Chrysanthemum Flag was all about. Since the eighties, the street has been back to the yelling of Chongyang cake, and in recent years, Chongyang flag is flying high again. Chrysanthemum cake is a seasonal food unique to Yangzhou around the Chrysanthemum Festival, just like dumplings at Dragon Boat Festival and mooncakes at Mid-Autumn Festival. Cake is made of rice flour, steamed and ready to eat, slightly sweet, fluffy and refreshing, especially for the elderly and children. Cake shape is also very interesting, square, small and coquettish, dyed red dots. The seller puts a number of small cakes into a pile, with a small paper flag inserted at the top. Small flag red and green, triangular, but also poked a lot of small holes, poked holes, board hard paper will be much softer, the wind can also be fluttering, which is the so-called "Chrysanthemum flag". In fact, here the narrative of the Chongyang cake has been much inferior, the old Yangzhou Chongyang cake than today's more delicate. Zhenzhou Bamboo Note" in the narrative: "September 9, Chongyang, the popular cake, Xiao Beauty cake, famous for a while, the descendants are still the world of its industry." Here, "Xiao Beauty" seems to be a shopkeeper to do Chrysanthemum cake, how "famous for a while" it, the author did not say, but he said later: "Hexi Street steam store, small chrysanthemum cake, the legacy of its system. Cake inserted on the red and green paper flag, known as the Chongyang flag, like the raw store system kiosk, there are a number of (only) face pinch goat, Chen (standing) standing in between, known as the Chongyang Terrace." From this record can be seen at that time Yangzhou Yizheng people more creative, there are small flags, there are small pavilions, there are small sheep, and different forms, it is simply a work of art. Analyzed from the perspective of folklore, "cake" harmonizes with "high", "small flag" and "small pavilion" mean field The "Little Flag" and "Little Pavilion" mean climbing up to a high altitude in the field, while several "little goats" harmonize with "Chongyang". All of these are synergistic with the many customs of Chung Yeung, which not only contain people's auspicious desire to pray for prosperity, but also show the optimism of people's love of life and creation of life. --Winter wind pickle "real state bamboo stick lyrics citation" has a record: "after the snow, people pickles, said 'cold vegetables', ...... storage to winter. " Yangzhou people after winter, almost every family to pickle a variety of vegetables and fish, the most common is pickled cabbage, pickled radish, pickled salted meat, pickled salted fish. In addition to "pickling", there is also "wind". Can wind vegetables, but also wind chicken, wind meat, etc., all of which, Yangzhou people collectively referred to as "winter wind pickling". In the old days, the people of winter wax wind pickling is to "store to winter", nowadays abundant food supply, there is no need to "store to winter". Nowadays, winter wind pickling is a method of food processing, because winter wind pickled food has a special "wax fragrance", which is loved by Yangzhou people. Winter wind cured fish and meat "cold vegetables" is also called "salted vegetables", suburban vegetable farmers grow this kind of vegetable seems to be specially used for pickling, vegetable head fat, vegetable stem long and thin, vegetable leaf broad, stem white tender, leaf green green, one or two feet high, two or three pounds, it is also called "big vegetables". It is also called "Big Vegetable". This kind of vegetable takes its tender one to burn and eat, also very fresh, because of its tender, once burned on the soup overflowing, so it is also called "soup vegetable". Wang Zengqi is a writer, but he will also pickles, he is in an essay "hometown food" in the title "pickled cabbage mushroom soup", dedicated to the pickle pickling and eating method, read quite interesting: a snowy day, our family drink pickled cabbage soup, I do not know what is the reason. Is it because you can't buy vegetables on snowy days? That does not necessarily mean that the vegetable sellers can not go out, otherwise they will always be listed to sell vegetables. This is probably just a habit. When I woke up early in the morning and saw snowflakes, I knew: today's lunch is savory cabbage soup! The savory cabbage is the green vegetable pickle. ...... bok choy resembles rape, but much taller. In the winter, pickles, when the green vegetables are fat. Buy the green vegetables into a quart, wash, dry off the moisture, under the tank. A layer of vegetables, a layer of salt, yard solid, that is. Eat as you go, you can eat until the next spring. Pickled four or five days of the new pickles are very tasty, not salty, fine, tender, crisp, sweet, hard to compare. Wang Lao in another essay "my grandparents" also talked about pickled mustard: winter,...... pickled mustard. Pickled "spicy vegetables" ------ cabbage to dry off the water, into the mustard with the pickle, New Year's altar, the color is like light gold, spicy taste nose, very fragrant and beautiful. Since leaving home, I have never eaten this delicious pickles. Wang Lao in addition to pickles, probably also wind chicken, in "my grandparents" he also said how to wind rooster: wind chicken ------ rooster without hair, rubbed into the coarse salt, wrapped in lotus leaves, hanging in the ventilation, about 20 days that is, longer the better. Wang Lao is Yangzhou Gaoyou people, in his novels and essays written in many places in his hometown Gaoyou home dishes, Wang Lao not only can eat, but also know how to eat, so Wang Lao called the gourmet can also be. In recent years, some people have compiled Gaoyou's "Wang's Recipes" based on the various dishes and foods mentioned in Wang's articles. This is really fantastic and creative, and it is said that this "Wang's recipe" is still very influential in Gaoyou. In the Qing Lin Pu's "Yangzhou Xishan Xiaozhi" in a poem, also talked about Yangzhou's pickles, the poem: surplus shoulder greens full of frost, more than the autumn woad flavor longer. Beng Beng family boasts of the purpose of storage, counting all the dung scum fragrance. There is a note at the end of the poem that reads: "Before and after the snow, every family pickles vegetables, and they are all picked and sent by the gardeners. On weekdays, people collect dung to irrigate the garden, to the vegetables to pay for it." This poem records another custom in Yangzhou during the winter wind pickling - Mazi vegetables. Mazi is a dialect of Yangzhou, also called "horse bucket". In the old days, every morning in Yangzhou, you could see farmers pushing manure carts to each house to collect manure from the toilet and transport it to the farmland for fertilizer, which was called "pouring the toilet" in Yangzhou. Farmers into the city "pouring toilet" is a fixed area, not allowed to grab, this fixed area is called "manure nest". Proverb: Fertilizer is a farm treasure, planting is indispensable. Therefore, farmers attach great importance to this "dung nest". Few of them give it up, and even if they transfer it to others, they are paid for it. Farmers in the "manure nest" to get fertilizer, they think to return, return what mile? Naturally, they grow their own vegetables. So every pickle season, will pick up a load of "big vegetables" to the host family, this is the so-called "horse vegetable". Yangzhou send "horse dish" originated when, due to the lack of records, it is difficult to say for sure, but at least the Qing Dynasty that is this custom. Recently, I have seen some folklore information in foreign countries, there are farmers in foreign countries to the city "pour horse" a custom, but foreign "pour horse" is not a farmer to the host family to give back the "horse dish", but to the But in foreign countries, "pouring horse" is not a gift of "horse food" from the farmer to the host family, but a monthly cleaning fee, called "monthly money", to the host family. For example, in Beijing during the late Qing Dynasty and early Civil War, each household had to collect 10 to 50 cents, and "festival money" was added for the Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Chinese New Year, and "wine money" was extorted on cold and rainy days. Every family has a horse, every day to urinate and defecate, not down how? By a bit of blackmail also had to endure. In contrast, Yangzhou's "horse food" is very rich in human flavor, "counting all the dung scum incense" meaning can be understood. --- year steam and year dish Yangzhou people before the arrival of the Spring Festival, to be busy with a lot of things, but all crowned with the word "year". The real state of the bamboo stick lyrics quote "pointed out this feature of Yangzhou people, which said: before and after the winter solstice pickled salted goods, to the time of cooking, said" cooking year dishes ". Butchers please gang to help, said "help year". Sacrifice the stove after the development of annual affairs, said "annual account". Relatives of the poor, sent to the charcoal cost, said "year of respect", to and from the feeder, said "year gift". ...... although firewood and rice, also said "year firewood", "year rice", not crowned with a "year" word, in order to imply the meaning of the evening festival. Yangzhou's various "year", the most important is "year steam". The most important of the various "New Year's events" in Yangzhou is the "New Year's Steam". "New Year's Steam" is steamed dim sum, which is steamed before the festival and stored in the home to be enjoyed during the festival. In Yangzhou, the steamed snacks are mainly buns, which are similar to the dumplings made in the north. Some scholars have studied the dumplings in the north, pointed out that the dumplings are called hundun, and said "hundun" and through the "chaos", meaning that the world was generated at the beginning of the state of chaos, due to the Pangu opened up the sky and the earth, there is a world of four sides of the earth and sky, so New Year's Day to eat hundun with the beginning of the new year! Therefore, eating wontons in the New Year has the meaning of the beginning of a new year. By analogy, Yangzhou people's dumplings seem to have a more analogous image than dumplings, with the outer skin of the dumpling symbolizing the sky and the inner filling symbolizing the earth, which is more symbolic of the opening up of the sky and the earth, isn't it? In fact, Yangzhou people's another practice is more realistic, some people will be steamed buns, steamed buns and pastries, a little drying, they are neatly like a pyramid, placed in a conspicuous place at home, and must wait until the New Year to eat. The people explained that this is called "pile of treasures", symbolizing the new year, the new spring to attract wealth and prosperity. Yangzhou family New Year's Eve, whether sumptuous, or simple, there are a few vegetarian dishes are essential. One is pea shoots, peas, Yangzhou, also known as beans, fried on a plate of beans shoots, meaning "peace and security". Secondly, there should be watercress, watercress stems are tubular, the next year's career can be "LuLuTong". The third is tofu, with tofu, the next year can be "steep rich". These are all from the dialect on the harmony and image of the will, after the people's reasonable imagination, will be attached to the good wishes. There are dishes that are not virtual wishes, but have practical significance and local characteristics, which are "ten fragrant dishes" and "Anle dishes". "Ten fragrant vegetables" is mainly salted vegetables, mixed with shredded carrots, bamboo shoots, dried bean threads, peanuts, soybeans, etc., is a simple and easy to make homemade small dishes, families have to fry. New Year's people eat a lot of meat dishes, too greasy, eat this kind of mixed fried vegetables, doubly fragrant and delicious, so the name is "ten fragrant vegetables". The raw material of "An Lei Cai" is horse tooth vegetable, also called amaranth. Wang Zengqi also made a study of this dish, he said: "Amaranth is divided into human amaranth, horse amaranth. Human amaranth is today's amaranth, and horse amaranth is amaranth. My grandmother used to pick tender and fat amaranth in summer and dry it to make buns for New Year's Eve." Yangzhou Xishan Xiaozhi also corroborates Wang's claim, saying, "In April and May, we take the amaranth and store it in pickles, called "Anle Vegetables", and then make buns with the filling at the end of the year." The horse's toothwort is an annual fleshy herb, and can be used as a medicine to treat dysentery. In the New Year, the dishes are mixed, it is inevitable that there will be negligence.