The New Year's Eve dinner is also known as the reunion dinner.

The day of New Year's Eve is extremely important to Chinese people. On this day people prepare to get rid of the old and welcome the new by having a reunion dinner. In ancient China, some prison officials even let prisoners go home to spend the New Year's Eve with their families, which shows how important the New Year's Eve dinner was to the ancient Chinese.

The family is the cornerstone of Chinese society, and the annual New Year's dinner fully demonstrates the mutual respect and love of Chinese family members, which makes the relationship between the family closer. Family reunion often makes the head of the family in the spirit of comfort and satisfaction, the elderly see children and grandchildren, the family size *** to talk about the family, the past care and raising children to pay the effort is not in vain, this is how happy. And the younger generation, but also can take this opportunity to express gratitude to the parents of the grace of parenting.

Children playing with firecrackers, but also the housewives in the kitchen is the busiest time, New Year's dishes are done a few days before, and the New Year's Eve dinner is always in the New Year's Eve on the day of the kitchen to do out. In the north, the dumplings on the first day of the New Year are also wrapped up on the evening of the thirtieth. At this time the cutting boards of the families are thumping and busy chopping meat and vegetables. At this time, every household out of the cutting board sound, the streets and alleys out of the sound of firecrackers, small stores and stores out of the "chopping and popping" sound of the abacus and the rhythmic sound of the report, mixed with the sound of laughter everywhere, one after another, the ocean full of ears, interwoven into the New Year's Eve joyful music.

Speaking of the knife and anvil sound of New Year's Eve, Deng Yunxiang wrote the "Yanjing Native Records" but recorded a very bleak story of New Year's Eve: the poor people in the old society have a hard time living, thirty nights is a pass. In one family, the husband had not yet returned with the money by the late evening of the 30th, "the bottles of corn at home were exhausted early, and there was nothing for the New Year's goods. Woman at home to put the children to bed, at a loss, heard the neighbor's anvil sound, pain to the extreme, do not know whether the husband can take some money or something back, do not know how to live tomorrow this year, but also afraid of their own home no anvil sound to make people laugh, then take a knife to chop empty anvil, while thumping the chopping, while the tears weeping down ......, this story makes people listen to it. The story makes people listen to it.

Eat New Year's Eve dinner, is the Spring Festival families the most lively and enjoyable time. New Year's Eve. Abundant New Year's Eve dishes on the table, the whole family reunion, sitting around the table, *** eat a reunion dinner, the heart of the fullness is really difficult to describe. People are enjoying the table full of delicacies, but also to enjoy the happy atmosphere, the table has a big dish, cold pots, stir-fry, snacks, generally less than two things, one is the hot pot, the other is the fish. One is fish. Hot pot boiling, steaming, warm and inviting, indicating that the red hot; "fish" and "Yu" resonance, is a symbol of "good luck", but also a metaphor for "year after year". There are also turnips, commonly known as "choy tau", wishing good luck; lobster, popping fish and other fried food, wishing prosperity for the family, such as "blazing fire cooking oil". Finally, more for a sweet food, wishing sweet days ahead, this day, even if you do not drink alcohol, but also more or less drink a little. In ancient times, New Year's Eve drinking, pay close attention to the quality of wine, some wine is no longer available, leaving only many moving wine names, such as "wine", "orchid cocktail", "Yichun wine", "Plum Blossom Wine", "Peach Blossom Wine", "Tusu Wine" and so on.

[edit]Origin of Folklore

On New Year's Eve, no matter how far apart and how busy they are at work, people always want to return to their homes and have a reunion New Year's Eve dinner. Sometimes when you can't go home, your family will always leave a seat for you and a set of chopsticks to show that you are reunited. This New Year's Eve dinner is also known as the "family reunion", which is a family banquet that people attach great importance to.

As the saying goes, playing a thousand, scolding ten thousand, thirty nights to eat a meal. According to the traditional habits of Chinese folk, the New Year's Eve dinner food is very delicate, usually have wontons, dumplings, long noodles, Lantern and so on.

New Year's Day to eat wontons to take its meaning of the beginning. Legend has it that the Pangu's open sky and split the earth, so that "the light of the gas clear upward floating for the sky, the heavy turbid gas under the condensation for the ground", the end of the chaotic state, there is a universe of the four sides. And then take the "wonton" and "muddy hoard" of the harmonies, meaning food full of hoards.

Dumplings are one of the traditional foods in China. Also known as flat food or boiled meat and potatoes. In ancient times, only wontons and no dumplings. Later, the wontons made into a crescent-shaped dumplings. In the Tang Dynasty the habit of eating dumplings had spread to the remote areas of China. On New Year's Eve, once the clock strikes twelve, the dumplings are eaten, so it is the time of the day, taking the meaning of the change of the old and the new, and the coming of the time of the day.

Long noodles, also known as longevity noodles, eat it on New Year's Day, wishing for a long life of 100 years. In ancient times, all pasta is called cake, so the soup noodle at first also called soup cake, the beginning of the noodle sheet is not rolled or pressed into, but will be and good noodles, hand to the pot to tear pieces, and now eat the north of the "crow's head", "monkey ear" and so on, almost the same practice. After the Tang Dynasty began to use the board to roll out the noodles, there are gradually long noodles, short noodles, dry noodles, vegetarian noodles, meat noodles, hanging noodles ......

Lantern, also known as dumplings, more common in the South. It is made of glutinous rice rolled into a round shape (to which different flavors of fillings can be added), and then put into a pot to cook, meaning reunion. Lanterns are usually eaten as a breakfast or a staple of the New Year's dinner, whether it is a restaurant or a hotel or at home, this cuisine is very popular.

Many places in the New Year's dinner with some side dishes, to get a lucky mouth. Eat jujube (spring to early), eat persimmon cake (things as expected), eat almonds (happiness to come), eat tofu (the whole family blessing), eat three fresh vegetables (Sanyangkaitai), eat the fruit of longevity (longevity), eat rice cakes (rice cakes rice cakes, a year more than a year higher) ...... Of course, nowadays, New Year's Eve dinner varieties are even richer, what chicken, duck, fish, meat, mountain treasures, sea food. About the best dishes you can see in a year are on the table.

[Edit Paragraph]Evolution

According to the traditional folk habits, China's New Year's Eve dinner food customs vary from place to place: the north eat dumplings, the south eat rice dumplings, rice cakes, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian and Guangdong and other places to eat on the first day of the Lantern Festival, or deep-fried or boiled; people in Zhangzhou, Fujian, the first day of the morning to eat raw garlic and eggs; people in Teochew, Guangdong, the first day of the first day of the local special " The Hui people eat noodles and stewed meat on the first day of the first month, and only eat dumplings on the second day of the first month. Wonton New Year's Day to eat wontons to take its meaning of the beginning.

Legend has it that the Pangu's open sky and split the earth, so that "the light of the gas clear upward floating for the sky, the heavy turbid gas under the condensation for the ground", the end of the chaotic state, there is the universe four sides.

And then take the "wonton" and "muddy hoard" of the resonance, meaning that the grain is full of hoard. Dumplings in ancient times only wontons and no dumplings, and later made the wontons into a crescent-shaped dumplings.

In the Tang Dynasty, the habit of eating dumplings has spread to the remote areas of China. On New Year's Eve, as soon as the clock struck twelve, the dumplings were eaten, so it was the time of the day, taking the meaning of the change of the old and the new, and the coming of the time.

The custom of eating rice cakes in the Spring Festival, emerging in the Song Dynasty, flourished in the Ming Dynasty. Eating rice cakes, from the "year (sticky) high (cake)," the meaning of good luck, interpreted as the meaning of rising year after year.

[Edit Paragraph]New Year's Eve Dinner Auspicious Recipes

With the changes of the times, people on the New Year's Eve dinner dishes are also a variety of practices, but the purpose is that the meal should represent auspicious, symbolizing the New Year's new year, a new year, to be all right. New Year's Eve dinner recipes pay attention to the name of auspicious, dishes to do out to color and flavor, the following is a few New Year's Eve dinner practices, for everyone to do New Year's Eve dinner reference!

Five Blessings

Five Blessings main ingredients: cabbage (white stalks) 600 grams of pork belly 200 grams of grass shrimp 250 grams of squid (fresh) 100 grams of sea cucumber 50 grams of ham 75 grams of mushrooms (fresh) 50 grams

Seasoning: Salt 5 grams of pepper 4 grams of each appropriate amount

Method: 1. Cabbage washed, cut a large piece of oil with 2 tablespoons of oil to stir-fry softly, and then put into the stew pot;

The method: 1. cabbage, cut a large piece of oil to fry softly, put it into a stew pot. Stew pot;

2. pork belly cut into strips;

3. squid cut flowers and blanch out;

4. sea cucumber washed, first deodorized and then cut into thick slices;

5. ham boiled and then take out the slices;

6. mushrooms softened, remove the tip, and were placed in the cabbage on the top of the;

7. grass shrimp cut off the whiskers and feet, blanch out. Standby;

8. the seasoning into the stew pot, transfer to the electric pot or steamer for 40 minutes, and then into the grass shrimp and then steamed for 5 minutes can be removed to eat.

The main ingredient of "Nian Nian Yu"

Main ingredient: sea bass 750g

Seasoning: 15g green onion, 10g ginger, 10g fish sauce, 10g white wine, 5g oyster sauce, 5g color salad oil, 10g sugar, 3g sesame oil, 5g pepper, 4g, each moderately

Directions: 1. Wash sea bass, cut open the abdomen into slices and lay them flat on a lightly oiled steamer tray. Place 2 green onions and 2 slices of ginger on top of the fish. 2. Mix 2 tbsp fish sauce, 1 tbsp wine, 1/2 tbsp oyster sauce, 1/2 tbsp sesame oil, and 1 tsp sugar in a small bowl, then pour over the fish and steam over medium heat for 10 minutes. 3. Slice 3 green onions and 3 slices of ginger, and cut 1 chili pepper into julienne strips. When the fish is done steaming, take it out, pick out the green onion and ginger, and transfer it to another clean plate and spread the green onion, ginger and chili pepper on it;

5. Heat 1 tbsp sesame oil, 1 tbsp sesame oil, and a pinch of pepper, and pour it over the green onion, ginger and chili pepper to be ready.

Sanyangkaitai

Sanyangkaitai Main Ingredients: Pork Belly 300g Squid (Fresh) 100g Chicken Legs 200g Pork Thighs 150g

Side Ingredients: Shiitake Mushroom (Fresh) 50g Bamboo Fungus (Dried) 50g Lettuce 50g Rapeseed Oil 100g

Seasonings: Oyster Sauce 10g Vegetable Oil 15g Salt 4g Sugar 5g Pepper 3g Each

Practice: 1. pork belly cleaned, cooked and then sliced;

2. squid cut flowers, blanch and then use;

3. pork tendon (pork thigh), chicken thighs cut into pieces, blanched blood standby;

4. mushrooms, mushrooms, softened, remove the tip, cut into small pieces;

5. lettuce boiled and cut into strips;

6. oilseed rape blanching then Rinse and set aside;

7. pork belly, squid, chicken thighs, pork tendon meat, abalone in a casserole, add all the seasonings and cook for 10 minutes, then add mushrooms, bamboo fungus and bamboo shoots with cooking, simmering for half an hour over a low fire, so that it is completely cooked and soft to taste;

8. put in the oilseed rape, cooked that is removed from the serving

reunion

reunion main ingredients: glutinous rice 1, 000 grams

Reunion main ingredients: glutinous rice 1, 000 grams

Runion main ingredients: glutinous rice 1, 000 grams

Runion main ingredients: glutinous rice 1, 000 grams

Side dishes: bacon (raw) 200g, eggs 150g

Seasonings: pepper 5g, salt 5g, spring onion 100g, ginger 20g, as much as possible

Method: 1. soak the glutinous rice in warm water for 2 hours, then steam it in a cage for 40 minutes;

2. cool the glutinous rice, and then beat the eggs when it is warm;

3. cook the bacon, then cook the eggs, and then remove it when it is cooked. Cook the bacon, and then cut into cubes;

4. scallions cut scallions, ginger peeled, cut into pieces;

5. all ingredients into the glutinous rice, add pepper and salt (can be set according to their own tastes) mixed evenly (mixed evenly, you can dig a small piece, put in the microwave oven for 30 seconds, try the taste, mainly raw eggs, in fact, you can also eat, but we have to be gastrointestinal function of a good). .

6. Mixed evenly, the hand first wet with water, and then take about 25 grams, pinch into a round.

Smile often open

Smile often open main ingredients: honey dates 350 grams of dumplings 150 grams

Seasoning: 20 grams of icing sugar, each appropriate

Practice: 1. cut a mouth date, and then do a good job of small dumplings stuffed into it;

2. pot of water to put the icing sugar, do a good job of the dates, cook until floating on it;

3. can also be put into the refrigerator for a while, sweet and soft can be eaten, but to be gastronomically functional. Put into the refrigerator to ice for a while, sweet and soft and delicious.

[edit]Customs around the world

The New Year's Eve dinner has a lot of names, different from the north and south of the country, there are dumplings, wontons, long noodles, snacks, and so on, and each have their own instructions. Northern people used to eat dumplings on New Year's Eve, is to take the old and the new, "change of year," the meaning of the child. And because the white dumplings are shaped like silver dollars, a pot of dumplings on the table to symbolize the "New Year's fortune, Yuanbao rolled in" meaning. When some dumplings are wrapped, several coins sterilized in boiling water are wrapped into them, saying that whoever eats them first will earn more money. The custom of eating dumplings was passed down from the Han Dynasty. According to legend, Zhang Zhongjing, the sage of medicine, saw that the ears of the poor were frostbitten in the winter months, so he made a kind of "Cold-removing Ear Soup" for the poor to cure frostbite. He used mutton, chili peppers and some cold and warm herbs, wrapped in dough into an ear like "Jiao Er", boiled in a pot, distributed to the poor to eat, people ate, feel warm, two ear heat. Afterwards, people followed suit and the tradition has been passed down to this day. Eating wontons in the New Year is to take the meaning of the beginning. Legend has it that the world was chaotic before the creation of the world, Pangu opened up the sky and the earth, so that there is a universe of four sides, long noodles, also known as longevity noodles. Eating noodles in the New Year is to wish for a long life of 100 years.

Kanto New Year's Eve dinner: retaining the ancient customs of Han-Manchu mutual influence

China's well-known folklore expert Cao Baoming said that the New Year's Eve dinner in the night of New Year's Eve, also known as the "reunion of the New Year" or "family reunion", because this meal will be ushered in the old year to say goodbye to the new year, so it is also known as the New Year's Eve. Because after this meal, it is time to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year, so it is also known as "sharing the year". In ancient times, it was believed that the New Year's Eve dinner also expelled epidemics, drove away evil spirits, and served as a health food. Therefore, the New Year's Eve dinner is characterized by the family reunion banquet, regardless of men and women, young and old to participate in order to this reunion, out of the family or children should be rushed to New Year's Eve to return home, if you can not make it back in time, the table should be given to non-returning people to leave a vacant seat, set a pair of chopsticks, said the family reunion.

The New Year's Eve dinner is usually the most sumptuous meal of the year in the old Guandong farming families, and must be cooked on the 30th day of the year. There must be fish in the table full of food and wine, indicating that there is money and food left over in the new year, and everything is very generous. There must also be a bowl of braised meatballs to indicate family reunion. Cao Baoming said, "According to the Zong Security Department's Jing Chu Yearly Record, the custom of having New Year's Eve dinner existed at least in the North and South Dynasties."

The people of the Kanto region have always had the saying, "If you're poor, you're rich, but if you don't eat dumplings, you don't celebrate the New Year. Shi Lixue, chairman of the Jilin Folklore Society, said that dumplings as early as the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period has appeared, around the origin of the dumplings, folk have produced different legends and stories, but the Guandong people have been advocating the first dumplings in the Spring Festival in the New Year's Eve Eve ZiZhou (zero hour) to eat, the custom of the urban and rural areas all over the Guandong and passed down through the generations to the present day.

Nowadays, many farmers in the Northeast, the New Year's Eve dinner still maintains many of the ancient customs, such as ancestor worship, firecrackers, dumplings and so on before eating. But because in recent years the New Year's Eve dinner is no longer important to eat and drink, Shi Lixue believes that: "The New Year's Eve dinner has long exceeded the scope of the 'eat', but lies in that warmth between people, which warms in the family's greetings and warmth. There is both a feeling of attachment to the old year that is about to pass away, as well as a sense of hope for the upcoming New Year."

Chongqing Tujia and Miao Autonomous County Lunar New Year's Eve Dinner: "Button Meat" and "Dunked Bell Pepper" are indispensable

Just in the month of Lunar New Year, Xu Wenxu's family, a farmer in Hongxing Village, Banxi Township, Youyang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, Chongqing Municipality, has been busy. In order to prepare for the New Year's Eve dinner, some essential traditional main dishes are not prepared ten days and a half months in advance is not possible. The most important of them are "buckled meat" and "dunked sea pepper". Xu Wenxu said, "buckle meat" seems simple, but to do the real fat, tender and crisp, is to put in a lot of work. "filling the sea pepper" is the glutinous rice noodles mixed with ingredients filled with a hollowed out sea pepper, and then put into the pickle jar sealed for half a month, to the New Year's Eve, out of the oil can be fried on the table.

Xu Wenxu told reporters, the reason why the Tujia people attach importance to these two dishes, because it is rare to eat a few times a year on the meat, glutinous rice is also a rare thing, so the family will be the two dishes as a New Year's Eve dinner to show the opportunity to show their skills, but also in order to treat the family to a year of hard work.

Surprisingly, seaweed was also once the main dish of the Tujia New Year's Eve dinner. Because in the past the Tujia gathering area to eat salt are difficult, medical conditions are also poor, often people due to lack of iodine suffered from neck disease. In order to supplement iodine for their families, the Tujia people served a dish of seaweed at the New Year's Eve dinner to supplement the iodine needed by the human body. In the conditions at that time, kelp for the Tujia people, really can be called "mountain treasures, sea food", often eat simply impossible, so it became a good dish on the New Year's Eve dinner. Now, the kelp has long been out of the New Year's Eve dinner "stage".

After the Tujia people ate their New Year's Eve dinner, each family would light a piece of firewood, and everyone would sit around and listen to the old man tell stories, and keep watch until dawn, called "guarding the ridge", to express their love for the fields.

The Korean people: the "wine of the year" and "Degu" occupy a special place

The Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in Jilin Province is the main Korean settlement in China, and the Spring Festival is the traditional and most important festival of the Korean people. The Korean New Year's Eve dinner has its own traditional food and characteristics.

Cao Baoming, an expert in folklore, said, "The Korean New Year's Eve dinner is very rich, with seventy to eighty plates of various sizes, and some people even have hundreds of them. Among them, the two that occupy a special place are 'year-old wine' and 'deokgu'."

On the eve of the Spring Festival, the reporter saw in the villages of Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, many Korean villagers are brewing "year-old wine". The 52-year-old Jin Zhenzhen is a villager in Mijiang Township, Hunchun City, she told reporters that the Korean people in the New Year's Eve dinner have the custom of drinking "year-old wine". This kind of wine is mostly brewed before the "Festival of the First Year". The first day of the year is equivalent to the Han Chinese New Year, "years of wine" to rice as the main ingredient, with a number of Chinese herbs, is a kind of medicinal wine. It is a medicinal wine that is used during the Spring Festival for drinking and entertaining guests, and is believed to ward off evil spirits and promote longevity. A New Year's Eve dinner of a lifetime mother and child love

Jin real said, "Degu" is a soup cake, is the rice flour and steamed, pounded into a large sticky dough, and then rolled into an oval round, cut into thin slices, poured into the chicken, pheasant, beef soup pots, and then put some sesame oil or sesame oil and seaweed when eating, flavorful and tasty.

Reporters learned that on the 30th day of the New Year, Korean women have to wear beautiful national dress. Most families start making rice cakes from early in the morning. "Even though there are machines sold to make rice cakes, we still like to make them by ourselves with a rice cake mallet because it still feels like the flavor is different." Park Young-ja, a Korean villager, said.

Kim Truth said that New Year's Eve is a very happy time when his own family of more than a dozen people all gather around for New Year's Eve dinner. Their whole family will keep the New Year's Eve vigil all night long. Unlike the Han Chinese, the Korean people welcome the New Year with songs and dances at the meal, accompanied by the ancient Korean music of the gaye gin and the tubular xiao.

Foreign New Year's Eve dinner customs

India: hungry

Indians fast on New Year's Day, from the early morning until midnight. After midnight, each family will taste the prepared meal and congratulate each other on the New Year.

Hungary: Avoid eating birds

Hungarians do not eat birds on New Year's Eve, because they believe that eating chickens, ducks, pigeons and other birds, the next year's luck will fly away. They send gifts to friends and relatives in the New Year, most like gifts on the "chimney sweeps" and small pig graphics, "chimney sweeps," of course, is a symbol of the removal of the old, chubby little pig, people like, the meaning is also festive. People in the image of respect for the little pig, but in fact it is another matter, because their traditional New Year's food is fried small suckling pig, that is to take the little pig to start!

Bulgaria: sneeze to get cattle and sheep

If you eat New Year's dinner in the Bulgarian home, be sure to sneeze, so you will get unexpected benefits. Local customs believe that the first sneeze will bring a year of happiness to the whole family. So the host went to his farm, will be the first to see the first sheep, the first calf, or the first foal to bring over to the first sneezing guests, the sneeze how much it is worth!

France: stock wine drink up

The French have a superstition that New Year's Eve at home if there is leftover wine, the next year will pay bad luck. Only clean, can usher in a year of good days. Therefore, they would rather get drunk and drink all the wine at home.

Poland: eating greens

Polish girls in the New Year, to wear a special rabbit-shaped dress to eat greens, it is said to eat greens will be good luck.

Paraguay: No fireworks

Paraguayans in South America have designated the last five days of the year as "cold food days". These five days, from the head of state, down to the common people, do not move fireworks, only eat cold food. New Year's zero clock sound, only to start the fire cooking dishes, feasts to celebrate the New Year.

Madagascar: Avoid eating meat

In Madagascar, before the New Year, seven days before the time is not allowed to eat meat, to the New Year's Eve dinner, can eat some birds. On New Year's Day, couples should present cocktails to both parents to show respect; present chicken legs to siblings to show care and friendship.

Vietnam: prohibit soup

Some ethnic minorities in the northern region of Vietnam, New Year's Eve to the place where they usually take water to burn incense, kowtow, and play a bucket of water to cook New Year's rice. After cooking, the ancestors are first honored, and then the whole family eats the New Year's Eve meal. When eating this meal, soup is absolutely forbidden. They believe that if they drink the soup, the planted crops will be flooded.

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