What do Hangzhou people eat for the New Year?
According to the custom of Hangzhou people, what do you eat for the New Year? Let's learn about what Hangzhou people eat in the New Year. People in Hangzhou celebrate the New Year-after the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the taste of the New Year is strong. Every household is also busy. In those days, everything depended on tickets. Usually, the poor have to live a rich year. After all, the children have been looking forward to it for a year. Counting the money and tickets saved last year, I almost spent all of them on accounting. At that time, there were no refrigerators and few commodities. Only sauce and castration can keep it longer. The meat joint is very tight, so you can only use a piece of sauce, which you need when you wish incense. Besides, it can only be leftovers. The so-called leftovers are things like pig's head and pig's foot that can't be served on the table. Buy a pig's head and get up early, which is our children's responsibility. At three or four in the morning, everyone starts calling friends. Let's take a vegetable basket, go to the vegetable market, let the vegetable basket line up, and we will play next to it. It was so cold that the ground froze. At that time, children were not afraid of the cold, so they accidentally fell down and touched their buttocks. It's dawn, and the adults have come to pick up our class. Adults will buy us fried dough sticks if they are happy. You can take a bite, and I can eat happily. Then the sauce is still castrated. Sauced meat should be soaked in soy sauce for two or three days, and the pig head should be longer. If castrated, put pepper and salt on the meat, and put cinnamon and fennel carefully. Then pick it up and dry it under the eaves. At that time, every household was full of sauce and the population was watching. Sauced meat, like castrated vegetables in winter, is not only eaten in the New Year, but also for a good side dish when it is closed in heavy snow. A can of castrated vegetables, a few Chinese cabbages and a pig's head can lead a rich winter. At that time, I was always looking forward to the Chinese New Year. I didn't want the Chinese New Year to come, but I was looking forward to snow. Hangzhou people eat "ten bowls" in the New Year. People in Hangzhou are very particular about the food they eat during the Spring Festival. Among them, the "Ten Bowls" are eaten from New Year's Eve to Lantern Festival, including Yuanbao Fish, Yuanbao Meat, Boiled Chicken, Eggs, Warm Pot, Eight-treasure Cabbage, Ruyi Cabbage, longevity fruit, Lotus Root and Spring Roll with Bean Paste. Yuanbao fish means more than a year. Silver ingot fish served on the table on New Year's Eve can only be seen but not eaten. You must eat the Lantern Festival. Therefore, smart housewives usually buy smaller fish. If it is broken, it won't be too painful to throw it away. Yuanbao meat is braised eggs and braised pork, which looks like Yuanbao. White-cut chicken is a whole chicken on the table, symbolizing the wealth of a family. Eggs, actually preserved eggs, are called eggs, just to win a good lottery. A warm pot is equivalent to a hot pot now, except that charcoal is burned underneath. Warm pot mainly means warm taste and reunion taste. It is said that the things put in it are also very particular: meatballs represent reunion, egg dumplings represent ingots, and rice cakes represent annual heights. The implication of Babao cuisine is obvious. It means wealth, and the main ingredient in the dish is soybean sprouts, because it is germinated soybean, which symbolizes "fat". There are also bean boards in Ruyi cuisine, which also stands for "fat". In addition, there are winter bamboo shoots and winter vegetables. This dish is very popular because of its clear mouth, so it has the reputation of ruyi cuisine. Lotus root is rich, symbolizing wealth, and lotus root has holes. This dish is called "Passepartout", and the ingredients in it are also good, including red dates, water chestnuts with buds, and an old ling with two horns, which symbolizes gold ingot. Others are ginkgo, chestnuts and soybeans. This dish is sweet and delicious. In addition, the "two bowls" are longevity fruit and spring rolls with bean paste, which many people can make now. Healthy food that should be eaten more during the Spring Festival. When eating big fish and meat, you must also eat the following healthy foods. The first is tomato, which can greatly reduce the risk of prostate cancer and other cancers, and is also the best source of vitamin C, followed by spinach rich in iron and vitamin B, which can effectively prevent vascular diseases and blindness. The third is nuts, which can not only improve cholesterol, but also reduce triglycerides in the blood. It is the best formula to prevent heart disease, whether it is peanuts or almond fruit, it is a good choice. Fourth, cauliflower, rich in carotene and vitamin C, can reduce the risk of breast cancer, rectal cancer and gastric cancer if eaten for a long time. The best way to eat is to chew hard after simple cooking. Cabbage and bean sprouts are also good choices. The fifth is oatmeal. Eating oatmeal every day can lower cholesterol, and its rich fiber will make people feel full quickly, which can reduce the intake of other greasy foods and achieve the purpose of weight control. The sixth is salmon, which can prevent blood vessel blockage and Alzheimer's disease if eaten regularly. The seventh is garlic, which has excellent functions of preventing and treating heart disease, not only lowering cholesterol, but also clearing blood. Its bactericidal function is also highly recommended by scientists. The eighth is strawberry. Among all fruits and vegetables, besides preventing heart disease and cancer and improving brain power, there are also extremely high antioxidants. The ninth is green tea. Drinking green tea regularly is less likely to cause gastric cancer, esophageal cancer and liver cancer. Japanese research also found that drinking 10 cup of green tea every day can reduce the risk of heart disease. When talking about the grand occasion of the previous Spring Festival, there is a saying in old Hangzhou: "Eat on New Year's Eve and wear it on the first day of the first month." The New Year's Eve dinner is the most abundant. After working hard for a year, the chicken, duck and fish you bought at the end of the year naturally have to respect your ancestors first. Fortunately, the ancestors were considerate and only wanted to enjoy the heat of the dishes, and did not compete for the precious meat and fish of the younger generation. Finally, the chicken, duck and fish all satisfied the appetite of the whole family. On New Year's Day, the whole family put on a new blue coat and new cloth shoes outside the old cotton-padded jacket. After dressing neatly, they will go to Lingyin Temple and Tianzhu Temple to "burn their heads" as usual. "Burn your head" comes back to eat dumplings, symbolizing family reunion. Then everyone goes out to pay a New Year call. In the past, the gift packages of large families were very expensive, not to mention the small ones. People usually carry triangular bags wrapped in thick paper to pay New Year greetings to each other. The papyrus paper made of straw is quite rough and hard to feel. But in the hands of the guys in the south goods store, after a papyrus roll is tapered, everything can be wrapped. Red dates, peanuts, pickles and oranges should naturally be wrapped, and then delicate foods such as white sugar, lotus root starch and zongzi sugar should be wrapped with a thin piece of paper to ensure that every drop is not leaked. South goods store has a New Year gift package for sale. The gift package is divided into two grades, one kilo in large package and one kilo in small package 12 (old scale). Usually the price is about a few cents, and the highest price is one yuan per pack. Adults at home buy some red dates, oranges, sugar, lotus root starch and so on. In the grocery store in xiaonan street alley. After weighing, the waiter wrapped the triangular gift package with rough toilet paper and covered it with a palm-sized "red ticket" (similar to today's leaflet and quality guarantee). The gift package looks much more beautiful, and then tie a thin hemp rope to make you walk safely-according to the rules, give it to the elders. Bow to the door to pay New Year's greetings, send a simple toilet paper gift package and shout loudly "Congratulations on making a fortune". I received the gift package, but it's not over yet. It's the New Year. At that time, ordinary people didn't have enough money. Once people receive new year's gift packages from relatives and friends, they are definitely reluctant to open their own food. They always have to make overall plans and pay attention to the overall situation of New Year's greetings, and the gift packages should be handed back to people all over the country to "make the best use of everything" and hold a tacit "gift package exhibition" between relatives and friends. In the case of continuous rope, the "travel" of these New Year gift packages will last until the whole first month. Through the above introduction, everyone remembers!