Harmonious dishes, happy dishes, eight-treasure dishes, jiaozi with egg skin, chicken and fish are the essential dishes for Hefei people's traditional New Year's Eve. One of the first courses is a harmonious dish.
The method of "harmonious dishes" is simple, tofu fruit is shredded, and shredded pork, day lily, fungus and so on are fried together, which means harmony and beauty. "An Le Cai" is a kind of wild vegetable, the scientific name is Portulaca oleracea, which is fried with meat after drying, but now Portulaca oleracea is rare, and many people use dried plums instead.
2. Fried glutinous rice balls and "eight-treasure dishes" are generally cooked from the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. "Babao dish is fried with eight kinds of ingredients such as diced bacon, soybeans and garlic. This dish can be put very well." Niu Yun said that in Hefei people's New Year's Eve dinner, chicken means "good luck", fish means "more than every year", jiaozi with egg skin means "gold ingot" and fans symbolize "money-oriented".
3. From the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, the people began to prepare for the Spring Festival. It is also necessary to steam steamed bread and fry all kinds of small pastry. After the first pot of steamed bread is baked, firecrackers should be set off to worship the kitchen god. Having a reunion dinner at noon on New Year's Eve, a string of firecrackers will be set off before the meal. The food is quite rich, but you don't have to have rice or porridge. The dinner is very simple, just eat some noodles or Yuanxiao. After dinner, you will start to pinch flat food, and the whole family will do it.
Flat food is a vegetarian stuffing for breakfast on the first day of the lunar new year. It is mainly made of green vegetables, minced eggs and vermicelli, and some coins, one yuan, ten cents and fifty cents are randomly put in the package. After the flat food is finished, there will be a family member who voluntarily "keeps watch". At the breakfast of the first day of junior high school, whoever eats a flat food with coins means who will have a prosperous fortune in this year, and the larger the face value of coins, the more money he earns.
4. After getting up early in the morning on the first day of the New Year, you should set off firecrackers when you open the door, offering sacrifices to heaven and earth, and some places call it the door god. Family members worship together, congratulate each other, eat dates, chestnuts, tea, eggs and longevity noodles, and then go out to pay New Year greetings to other elders.
5. You can't sweep the floor on the first day of the first day, and the tea should be poured into a specially prepared basin, which means that you don't sweep (spill) the wealth. Generally speaking, there is no labor on this day, so there is a saying that you will spend 30 nights in a hurry and spend the first day at leisure.