The delicacies eaten at the Shanghai Little New Year Party include: egg dumplings, family portraits, braised pork with bamboo shoots, glutinous rice balls, etc.

1. Egg dumplings

This is a dish that many Shanghainese people cook during the Chinese New Year. It has the same meaning as eating dumplings during the Chinese New Year in the north. In addition, the egg dumplings are golden in color and look like gold ingots, which symbolizes the Jiaozi moment, the new year, abundant financial resources and great profits.

2. Family portrait

Chicken soup, egg dumplings, meatballs, pork skin, prawns or prawns, smoked fish, vermicelli, etc., are cooked in the pot and warmed. heart. , kill a chicken, cook it in white, and keep the chicken soup, which is the base of the last soup. Put the chicken soup in a large enamel pot, add only some egg dumplings, mushrooms, and vermicelli, roll it a few times and serve it on the table.

3. Roasted pork with bamboo shoots

Buy dried bamboo shoots at Nanhuo Store in advance and put them in rice washing water for a while. As for the pork belly, in the years when pork was still available by ticket, it had to be prepared patiently. Small vegetable markets may not always have pork belly suitable for making water bamboo shoots and roasted pork.

4. Glutinous Rice Balls

One adult grinds the mill, and the other holds a spoon and adds glutinous rice soaked in water into the holes of the stone mill. You can see water-milled powder as thick as milk flowing out of the stone mill. After the New Year's Eve dinner, the elders in the family will wrap glutinous rice balls with these water-milled flour and black puff pastry. The wrapped glutinous rice balls are neatly stacked on an enamel plate and covered with gauze.

Shanghai New Year Customs

1. Sacrifice the stove

Every household should "send stoves" and "sacrifice stoves", which kicks off the New Year celebrations. On that night, every household would worship the Kitchen God in the hall, and more often than not they would offer wine, fruit, water chestnuts, wild rice, good fish, and good meat on the kitchen stove next to the statue of the Kitchen God. There is a poem on a bamboo branch that says: "Fame and fortune" Prosperity means less disputes, and everything depends on God's blessing. Today, there is nothing else to offer, and fish and meat are bought for fat. "

2. Cleaning

According to tradition, every household. Dust inside and out, remove a year's worth of accumulated dust, and clean up the usual clutter. This move was quite serious. In today's terms, it can be called a positive and large-scale mass health campaign. After this day's work, every household is clean and tidy, its supplies are in better order than before, and it looks fresh inside and out, like a new year.