The pace of the New Year is getting closer and closer, and wanderers from all over the world are rushing home. I am rushing to reunite with my family, and I am rushing to eat the New Year's Eve dinner that ranges from snacks to big ones, but I can't get tired of it. In the traditional impression of China people, eating New Year's Eve, wearing new clothes and watching the Spring Festival Gala are the real Chinese New Year.
Every place has its own different customs and food culture. As a northeast person, the New Year's Eve dinner must be quite rich. After eating it, there is not half a table left, and I feel that I have not eaten well. And the New Year's Eve dinner should be prepared one month in advance.
From the twelfth lunar month, to be precise, after Laba, we began to prepare new year's goods. Years ago, the great gathering of rural areas in Northeast China was quite lively and prosperous, and the years were full of beautiful things and everything. Today, I will talk to you about the Northeast New Year's Eve dinner. The four ingredients necessary for the Northeast New Year's Eve dinner were prepared one month in advance, and the southerners opened their mouths after reading it!
? Type 1: Half a pig. Whether southerners or northerners, they will definitely buy pork during the New Year. However, Northeasters are famous for their cool atmosphere, so buying pork is even more heroic. Most families buy at least half a pig, individual "local tyrants" and even buy a whole pig and then carry it home. When waiting for the Chinese New Year, make all kinds of delicious food, not only pork, but also pig's trotters, pig's heads, pig's tails, etc., all of which are frequent visitors at the dinner table. Eating it is called a refreshing.
? Type 2: Super big fish. As an authentic Northeastern, how can you lose a big fish when you eat New Year's Eve? Because fish has a beautiful meaning of more than one year, people in Northeast China like to use a fish to support the scene during the New Year. Moreover, this fish must be oversized to meet the temperament of the Northeast. Many locals will run to the winter hunting site, buy some big fish alive and kicking, throw them home into the snow in the yard and freeze them for the New Year! Northeasters don't make fish soup or steamed like southerners. They like stewed fish and braised fish, which are very delicious. When they stew fish, they usually stew it with their own soy sauce and a bottle of beer, which is especially delicious.
? The third kind: pure wild chicken. From Zhao Benshan's sketches, I first learned the first famous dish in Northeast China-stewed mushrooms with chicken. How could this dish be missing on such a grand festival as the Chinese New Year? Before the Chinese New Year, people in the northeast, whether in the countryside or in the city, would buy a few native chickens in advance to raise them, and those in the city would raise them on their balconies. When the year came, they would "sharpen their knives to the native chickens" and then make them into various delicacies to share with their families the delicacies given by nature.
the fourth kind: frozen pear and persimmon. In the past difficult times, due to the lack of food and the lack of fruit preservation technology and transportation conditions, frozen pears, frozen persimmons and frozen grapes almost became the only fruit that ordinary people in Northeast China could eat in winter. Although there are few fruits in winter in Northeast China, how can we not eat fruits? This frozen pear and persimmon is a unique food in Northeast China. Every year before New Year's Eve, every family will go to Daji to buy a lot of frozen pears, persimmons and grapes, and then the whole family will sit on the hot kang and eat frozen pears. It's delicious!