1. What do we eat at New Year's Eve? 2. What are the customs? 3. Why do we eat New Year's Eve?
New Year's Eve night, no matter how far apart, how busy work, people always want to return to their homes, eat a reunion New Year's Eve dinner. Sometimes when you really can't go home? , family members always leave a seat for him? The family will always leave a place for him, and a set of chopsticks and bowls to show that they are reunited with him. This New Year's Eve dinner is also called "Family Reunion", and it is a family banquet that people attach great importance to. As the old saying goes, "I'd like to play a thousand, but I don't know if I'd like to play a thousand, so I'm going to eat a meal on the night of the 30th".
According to the traditional habits of our folklore, the New Year's Eve dinner is very elaborate. , there are usually wontons, dumplings, long noodles, Lanterns, etc.?
New Year's Day eating wontons to take its meaning of the beginning of the beginning. Legend has it that the Pangu's open sky and split the earth, so that "the gas of the light and clear floating up for the sky, the gas of the heavy turbid condensation down for the earth", the end of the chaotic state, there is a universe of the four sides. The word "hundun" is also used as a homonym for the words "hun hoard", meaning a hoard full of grain. Dumplings are one of the traditional foods in China. Also known as flat food or boiled meat and potatoes. In ancient times, there were only wontons but no dumplings. Later, the wontons were made into a crescent shape to become dumplings. In the Tang Dynasty, the habit of eating dumplings has spread to the remote areas of China.
On New Year's Eve, the dumplings were eaten as soon as the clock struck twelve, so it was the time of the new year? , taking its meaning of the change of the old and the new, and the coming of Zi Shi.?
We attach importance to the New Year's Eve dinner, that is, the importance of tradition, the cognition of their own identity, the "Er Ya - Shi Tian" said: "the year, the name of the ripe harvest, every year a ripe, so the name of the year," the "year" as a symbol of the harvest, so the The celebration became the New Year's Eve dinner, when everyone got together to cook something good and eat it.
This meal is more important in a form, eat New Year's Eve dinner, every family should have a dish that is full of fish, take the meaning of the year. In the south of China, the fish is the last dish of the whole banquet, we are not really going to eat, but just end up posing, stay until next year, said the days have surplus.
There are also some areas, the first hot dish on the whole fish, until the end of the banquet, we just symbolically eat a few bites. The fish on New Year's Eve holds the good wishes of people who want their families to prosper and have more money every year. Guangzhou people's New Year's Eve dinner table will usually have "fortune on the hand", "fortune good market," such as the intention of the dish, but it is a thing to make a mouthful of things, but everyone still seriously and religiously do.
China's customs vary from place to place, and there's a clear difference between the south and the north: on New Year's Eve in the north, more dumplings are wrapped and eaten to harmonize with the meaning of the phrase "more years of intercourse," and some put sugar in the dumplings to pray for a sweeter life in the coming year; and some wrap a coin around individual dumplings, so that whoever eats it will be rich in the new year. The Chinese government has also been trying to make the country's economy more prosperous by putting sugar in the dumplings.
Southern New Year's Eve is generally eaten in the Lantern Festival and rice cakes, Lantern Festival, also known as "dumplings", "dumplings", "round", the middle of the package of sugar as much as to take the family reunion of the meaning of sweetness and beauty; rice cakes are made of glutinous rice, to make life more sweet; some individual dumplings wrapped in a coin, whoever eats it will be rich in the new year. The rice cake is made of glutinous rice, which is harmonized to take the meaning of "yearly high". But on this day, all the Chinese in the world went to this feast, how can we not be touched?
The New Year's Eve dinner represents the supreme, the ancient wise and holy ancestors in the New Year's Eve on the 30th day of the day will also be pardoned prisoners to go home to eat a New Year's Eve dinner, because this meal represents a person really live in the world supreme power, for the Chinese this is irreplaceable, a few years ago the director Zhang Yuan filmed a "New Year's Eve home," through the female prisoners go home to eat the New Year's Eve dinner to tell a human nature forgiveness of story, the final movie for Zhang Yuan to bring back the New Year's Eve dinner, the movie is the most important thing. In the end, the movie won Zhang Yuan a "Humanitarian Spirit Award". The New Year's Eve dinner has long gone beyond the scope of "eating", and the things on the New Year's Eve dinner table do not necessarily have to be eaten on New Year's Eve. The meaning of the New Year's dinner is not in the meal, but in the warmth between the people.
The New Year's Eve dinner symbolizes a vision of happiness, and then miserable, miserable, but Yang Bailao, but on the 30th day of the year, Yang Bailao also want to buy a red headband for the children, to find a way to open up a New Year's Eve dinner, the children's section of the "father brought back the white noodles to, happy over the New Year," sung so that my parents in the process of reminiscing about sweetness and know what is called "tragedy padding. "Tragedy's paving the way."?
New Year's Eve dinner means fundamental power, overseas Chinese feeling should be the deepest, Indonesia once banned the Chinese people to celebrate the New Year, until Indonesia's former President Wahid assumed office, canceled the ban on the Chinese to publicly hold religious beliefs and folk activities, so that the Indonesian Chinese after more than 30 years after the interval was permitted to celebrate Chinese New Year without restriction, re-embodiment of Chinese New Year's festivities, the joyful atmosphere of the New Year, so that this New Year's Eve dinner eaten with a It was a relaxing and cozy meal.
The New Year's Eve dinner is the most inner-core centripetal force of the Chinese people, and the warmth of the dinner is exactly the kind of warmth that is engraved in the bones of the nation, warmed in the greetings of the family, and boiled in the bloodstream of every person. This kind of warmth is the mother's nagging under the lamp on New Year's Eve, and also the persistence and sincerity of countless travelers who rush home in the cold wind and snow. Chinese people emphasize the importance of family and love, and are y influenced by the "State of Manners". However, in modern society, many family members have to go their own ways for their livelihood and development, and it is very rare for them to get together. Eat a New Year's dinner together, the family wine and food relative to each other, soft words, talk about the feelings of parting, life sense, it is what a pleasant thing!
Guandong New Year's Eve dinner: retain the ancient customs of the Han-Manchu mutual influence
China's well-known folklore expert Cao Baoming said that the New Year's Eve dinner in the night of New Year's Eve, also known as "reunion year" or "family reunion", because this meal will be ushered in the old year to say goodbye to the new year, so it is also known as the new year. Because after this meal, it is time to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year, so it is also known as "sharing the year". In ancient times, it was believed that the New Year's Eve dinner also expelled epidemics, drove away evil spirits, and served as a health food. Therefore, the New Year's Eve dinner is characterized by the family reunion banquet, regardless of men and women, young and old to participate in the reunion, in order to this reunion, go out of the family or children have to rush to New Year's Eve to return home, if you can not make it back in time, the table should be given to non-returning people to leave a vacant seat, set a pair of chopsticks, said the family reunion.
The New Year's Eve dinner is usually the most sumptuous meal of the year in the old Guandong farming families, and must be cooked on New Year's Eve. The table full of food and wine must include fish, indicating that there is money and food left over for the new year and that everything is generous. There must also be a bowl of braised meatballs to indicate family reunion. According to the "Jing Chu Yearly Records", the custom of having New Year's Eve dinner existed at least during the North and South Dynasties.
The people of the Guandong province have always said, "If you're poor, if you're rich, if you don't eat dumplings, it's not New Year's". Dumplings appeared as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and there are different legends and stories surrounding the origin of the dumplings, but the people of the Guandong province have always revered the first dumplings of the Spring Festival as being eaten on New Year's Eve at midnight, and the custom has spread throughout the cities and towns of the Guandong province and has been passed down through the generations to the present day.
Today, in many farmhouses in the Northeast, the New Year's Eve dinner still maintains many of the old customs, such as ancestor worship, firecrackers, and dumplings before the meal. But because in recent years the New Year's Eve dinner is no longer important to eat and drink, the New Year's Eve dinner has long been beyond the scope of 'eating', but in that warmth between people, it warms in the family's greetings and warmth. There is a feeling of attachment to the passing of the old year, as well as a sense of hope for the upcoming New Year.
Chongqing Tujia and Miao Autonomous County New Year's Eve dinner: "buckled meat," "filling the sea pepper" is indispensable
Just into the month of waxing moon, Youyang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, Chongqing Municipality, red apricot village farmers Xu Wenxu family has been busy. In order to prepare for this New Year's Eve dinner, some essential traditional main dishes are not prepared ten days and a half months in advance is not possible. The most important of them are "buckled meat" and "dunked sea pepper". Xu Wenxu said, "buckle meat" seems simple, but to do the real fat, tender and crisp, is to put in a lot of work. The "dunking sea pepper" is the glutinous rice noodles mixed with ingredients and filled with a hollowed out sea pepper, and then put into the pickle jar sealed for half a month, to the New Year's Eve, out of the oil can be fried on the table.
The reason why the Tujia people attach importance to these two dishes is that in the past, it was rare to eat meat a few times a year, and glutinous rice is a rare thing, so every family takes these two dishes as a New Year's Eve dinner to show off their craftsmanship, and at the same time, it's also for the purpose of treating their family members who have been working hard for a year.
Surprisingly, seaweed was also once the main dish of the Tujia New Year's Eve dinner. Because it used to be difficult to eat salt in the areas where the Tujia people gathered, and medical conditions were poor, people often suffered from great neck disease due to iodine deficiency. In order to supplement iodine for their families, the Tujia people served a dish of seaweed at the New Year's Eve dinner to supplement the iodine needed by the human body. In the conditions at that time, kelp for the Tujia people, can really be called? "mountain treasures and sea food", often eat simply impossible, so it became a good dish on the New Year's Eve dinner. Today, the kelp has long been out of the New Year's Eve dinner "stage".
The Tujia people eat the New Year's Eve dinner, each family will burn a piece of firewood, we sit around and listen to the old man to tell stories, vigil until dawn, called "guarding the ridge", to express the love of the field.
Korean people: "Year-end wine" and "deokgu" occupy a special place
Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in Jilin Province is the main Korean settlement area in China, and the Spring Festival is the traditional and the most important festival of the Korean people. The Korean New Year's Eve dinner has its own traditional food and specialties.
Korean New Year's Eve dinner is often rich, large and small plates seventy or eighty, some people even up to hundreds. Among them, the two that occupy a special place are the 'year-old wine' and 'deokgu'.
On the eve of the Spring Festival, the reporter saw in the villages of Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture that many Korean villagers were brewing "year-old wine". The Korean people in the New Year's Eve dinner have the custom of drinking "year-old wine". This kind of wine is mostly brewed before the New Year's Eve Festival. It is equivalent to the Spring Festival of the Han Chinese people, and it is a kind of medicinal wine made of rice and a number of Chinese medicinal herbs. It is a medicinal wine that is used for drinking during the Spring Festival and for entertaining guests. They believe that drinking this wine can protect them from evil spirits and help them live a long life.
"Degu" is a kind of soup cake, which is made by mixing rice flour and steaming it, pounding it into a big sticky ball, then rolling it into an oval round strip, cutting it into thin slices, pouring it into a soup pot of chicken, pheasant or beef, and putting some sesame oil or sesame oil and seaweed into the soup, which is very tasty and delicious.
On the 30th day of the New Year, Korean women wear beautiful national dresses. Most families start making rice cakes from early in the morning. Even though there are machines sold to make rice cakes, they still prefer to make them themselves with a rice cake mallet because the taste still feels different.
New Year's Eve is a very happy time when families all gather around for New Year's Eve dinner, and the whole family keeps watch all night long. Unlike the Han Chinese, the Korean New Year's Eve meal will be filled with songs and dances, accompanied by the ancient Korean music of the Gaye gagum and the tubular xiao to welcome the New Year.
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