A folk proverb says: "On the twenty-sixth day of the Lunar New Year, we kill the pigs and cut the meat for the New Year", which means that this day is the main preparation for the New Year's meat. The reason for putting "cutting New Year's meat" in the rhyme is that the economy of the farming society was not developed, and people could only eat meat in the annual festival, so it was called "New Year's meat".

From the twenty-sixth day of the Lunar New Year's Eve, sumptuous New Year's Eve dinners will be served one after another. People went out to the streets to buy goods for the New Year, dried fruits and fruits, big fish and meat, are people focused on purchasing goals. Stew pot meat, for the poor people in the old days is definitely a luxury wish, but in the New Year's wish finally come true.

In folklore, there is also "Lunar New Year's Eve, inside and outside a wash," "Lunar New Year's Eve, wash the livestock house," said. After the activities of sending Zaoshen and sweeping dust from the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year, we should focus on taking baths and washing clothes on the 26th day of the Lunar New Year to get rid of the bad luck of the year and to prepare for the New Year in the coming year.

There are three ways to eat New Year's meat:

One is to eat four happy balls, symbolizing harmony and family reunion; the other is to eat rice flour meat, salty and sweet, rotten meat and rice; and the third is to braise meat and stewed eggs.

Stewing this kind of meat is especially delicate, when the meat is stewed to seven or eight mature, the pre-cooked eggs will be peeled and put into the pot with the meat stew until the meat is rotten.

After the meat is cooked, the egg has become dark red, and the flavor of the braised meat has penetrated into the egg, which is twice as fragrant to eat. You can also put in wide vermicelli and seaweed, potatoes, to a pot of stew - meat, eggs, vegetables all together, called round full.

The above is a reference to the Dashboard Morning News - "Network China Festival - Spring Festival" Folk Proverb: 26th day of the month of Lunar New Year, kill the pig and cut the meat