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Northern people eat on New Year's Day
China's northern people eat dumplings for the first meal of the Spring Festival, dumplings are quite similar to the Yuanbao, which means that there is the meaning of the treasure. Some dumplings are filled with sugar, which means that they are sweet for the New Year; some are filled with peanuts (called "long life fruit"), which means that they can be eaten for a long time; and one dumpling is filled with money, which means that whoever eats it will be "lucky". Inside the New Year, the dumplings are cooked together, which is called "Golden thread through the Yuanbao". New Year's food and drink are all based on auspicious phrases. Dumpling practice and eating method is different from place to place, Beijing's dumplings boiled in water, the Northeast's old side of the dumplings, Jiangnan's pan-fried dumplings, jade and exquisite, fresh and tasty filling.
People in Sichuan and Chongqing eat soup dumplings for the first meal of the Spring Festival. With homemade dumpling powder or dry dumpling powder sold on the market made of a variety of fillings dumplings, moist and sweet and delicious.
Chongqing people eat on New Year's Day
Chongqing people on New Year's Day "buckle meat" "irrigation pepper" is indispensable In order to prepare for this New Year's Eve dinner, some essential traditional dishes are not prepared ten days and a half months in advance is not possible. One of the most important when the "buckle meat" and "filling sea pepper". "Buckle meat" seems simple, but to do the real fat, not greasy, tender and refreshing, is to make a lot of effort; "filling sea pepper" is the glutinous rice noodles mixed with condiments and filled with a hollowed out sea pepper, and then put into a jar of salted vegetables sealed for half a month. On New Year's Eve, they are deep-fried in oil and served on the table.
What Hunan people eat on New Year's Day
Most places in Hunan, the first meal of the Spring Festival to eat "rice cake", meaning "a year more than a year better", and the Miao people living in Hunan, the first meal of the Spring Festival to eat the sweet wine and dumplings, which mean The Miao people living in Hunan eat sweet wine and dumplings for the first meal of the Spring Festival, symbolizing "sweet life and abundant harvests".
What Hubei people eat on New Year's Day
In some places in Hubei, chicken soup is served on New Year's Day to symbolize Qingtai peace. Among them, the main laborers also eat chicken claws, meaning "New Year's catching money", "hopeful students" to eat chicken wings, meaning that they can spread their wings and fly, when the family ate chicken head, "outstanding! The meaning of "outstanding". Zigui people ate the first meal of the Spring Festival fried artemisia, take its harmonic "hundred good" for good luck. Shashi city area, the first meal of the Spring Festival to eat eggs, meaning "real, auspicious". In case of guests, to eat two boiled very tender, can see through the egg white yolk of the "lotus eggs", meaning "silver wrapped in gold, gold wrapped in silver, gold and silver".
Shanghai people eat on New Year's Eve
Shanghai people do not drink soup at New Year's Eve dinner, the general family New Year's Eve dinner table, sprouted beans and soybean sprouts are always there, because this symbolizes the rise and hair, very auspicious. As for the old custom of Shanghai that is New Year's Eve dinner should not be panned soup, rumor has it that if you panned the soup for dinner, the next year to go out to do business or travel, you will have to be rained on. This is of course nonsense.
Guangdong people eat on New Year's Day
Some areas in Guangdong, the first meal of the Spring Festival to eat "ten thousand years of food", that is, pulled out or steamed enough to eat three days of the Spring Festival family meal, meaning "no worries about food and drink," the meaning of. Chaozhou area, the first meal of the Spring Festival often eat rice flour and dried radish deep-fried into the "rot round", drink Tsz, lotus seeds, etc. boiled into the "five fruits soup", meaning "life is sweet, far-flung" meaning. The meaning is "sweet life, long-lasting".