first day of the lunar year
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, the annual grain-the first meal of the Spring Festival in some parts of Guangdong should eat the "annual grain", that is, make enough meals for the family for three days of the Spring Festival, which means "don't worry about eating and drinking".
3, jiaozi-Eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day is the 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 known as longevity noodles, eat longevity noodles on the first day of the New Year, meaning "long life every year", wishing a hundred years of life, many elderly people still maintain this custom.
6, chicken soup-drink chicken soup on New Year's Day, symbolizing "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 New Year's Day means that life in the new year is beautiful and sweet.
Lunar new year's day
1, the surface of the second grade should be made of the jiaozi surface of the first grade. 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 New Year's Day, the daughter (son-in-law) returns to her parents' home to pay a New Year call. 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.
Cook more meals and leave them for the second day of the New Year's Eve. 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 eve
1, I think it's millet's birthday on the third day of the first month. On this day, I wish sacrifices and pray for the New Year, and I don't eat rice.
2. As the saying goes, the zygote turns home on the third day. 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.
Zygote dough generally does not need fermented noodles, but uses 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.
Lunar new year's day
Folding-the whole family eats folding on this day. 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.
New year's eve
Jiaozi-Eating jiaozi during the fifth lunar month bears the implication that people expect good luck and happiness.
Old Beijing pays attention to it. If 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.
Lunar new year's day
The "year-end" has passed, and everything has resumed its usual life. So you can eat anything as usual.
Seventh day
Eat longevity noodles
The "Year Pass" of the sixth day 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 Nuwa created the world at the beginning, and after creating 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.
Eat noodles
In addition, in some places, there is a custom of eating noodles on this day, which means to wrap the legs of the years with noodles and take the meaning of 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.
Eat dumplings
On People's Day, women are forbidden to sew 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.
Lunar new year's day
On the eighth day of the lunar new year, release and 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.
Chu ba Chu JIU beef & mutton
Practice:
1, cut the beef brisket into pieces, put it in a pot and add cold water to boil, turn off the fire after 3 minutes, and rinse it with warm water.
2. Cut the beef tendon into pieces, put it into a pressure cooker and add water. After boiling it to SAIC, turn to low heat and turn off the heat after 20 minutes.
3. Remove the beef tendon after natural exhaust and rinse it with warm water.
4. Slice the onion and ginger, peel the garlic, and stir-fry in the oil pan.
5. Pour in old brine or water, fragrant leaves, star anise, Amomum 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 the beef and beef tendon are tender and tasty.
Drink bangzi 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, the fire is boiled, and the small fire is slowly cooked for about 20 minutes. Cooked corn porridge is sticky, beautiful and more delicious.
The eleventh day of the first month (February 18)
On the eleventh day of the first month, Zigu was sacrificed. 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 has a head start.
Eating fish in the New Year pays attention to "having fish (surplus) every year", and 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 19)
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 twelve.
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 dinner table during the New Year?
Practice:
1, wash the duck meat, cut it into medium-sized pieces to facilitate the taste, and peel off 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 20 minutes.
3. Put the duck skin fat that is too fat into the pot.
4. Press the small fire with a shovel and slowly force out the duck oil.
5. When the duck skin turns golden on both sides, a lot of duck oil comes out and the duck skin is served.
6. Pour dried Chili into duck oil and stir-fry pepper.
7. Pour in the marinated duck and stir fry until cooked.
8. Pour in the soy sauce, stir fry and color.
9. Pour in a bottle of beer, without duck meat, and slowly burn in a small fire.
10, slowly collect the juice, pour in the green pepper and stir fry.
The 13th day of the first month (February 20th)
On the thirteenth 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, shrimp washed and drained.
2. Soak the shrimp in onion ginger and cooking wine for 5 minutes, and turn it several times in the middle to make it evenly soaked in seasoning.
3. Pour out the juice and keep the onion and ginger.
4, pour a little oil, stir-fry shrimp in a hot pot.
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. Dry the soup and mix well.
The 14th day of the first month (February 2 1 day)
On the fourteenth day of the first month, the birthday of the "Waterfront Empress". 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".
Shisidawan Zhajiang Noodles
When making Zhajiang Noodles, old Beijingers generally only recognize Liubiju and Tianyuan sauces, and use handmade noodles for noodles, which are hot in summer and cold in winter, accompanied by the eight dishes that old Beijingers pay the most attention to when eating Zhajiang Noodles, including shredded cucumber, shredded water radish, chopped Chinese toon, chopped celery, green bean mouth, shredded soybean, shredded Chinese cabbage and chopped green garlic. If you bite a few more bites of Laba garlic, the taste will be even better. Pay attention to wechat "sea tourists"
Practice:
1, diced pork belly, shredded 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 enter the refined 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. Use fried sauce of stir-fried meat. First, boil the sauce until it glugs, and then slowly glugs with a small fire.
4. Fry for about ten minutes, then pour in the stir-fried diced meat, stir-fry for several times, and sprinkle with chopped green onion when you are out of the pot.
5, and then it is cooking noodles.
6, and then put the dishes in boiling water, take off the raw.
The fifteenth day of the first month (February 22nd)
On the fifteenth day of the first month, the silkworm (God) shines 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 make lantern festival.
On the fifteenth day of the first month, I went out to enjoy the moon, lit lamps and set off flames, enjoyed solve riddles on the lanterns, and ate Yuanxiao. 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.