Why don't Chaoshan people eat fried garlic outside?

Spring Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China, and people attach great importance to it. On this day, every family gets together. In Chaoshan area, unless it is an emergency, they must go home for the New Year. Every family in Chaoshan has a reunion dinner on New Year's Eve, which they call "Chinese New Year". Their reunion dinner is also very particular, such as eating fish, vegetables and seafood. They are full of auspicious meanings and are indispensable.

Garlic is a very common home-cooked dish, but it is eaten differently in Chaoshan area. In all kinds of dishes in China, garlic can also be used as an ingredient, while in the north, people regard garlic as an appetizer. In Chaoshan, eating garlic is one of the essential dishes for Chinese New Year. Everyone knows that Chaoshan has its own language, Chaoshan dialect, in which garlic and "calculation" are homophonic and Chaoshan folk.

Chaoshan people cannot get rid of garlic, which is related to a legend. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a family named Lin in a village in Chaoshan. Due to the difficult family conditions, I have to recruit some odd jobs every day to make a living. When some rich families come to festivals, Aunt Lin will go to rich families to make some handicrafts and so on. One year approaching the Spring Festival, there were some in the village.

At this time, people in every household are cooking for the New Year and preparing many sacrifices to the gods, but Aunt Lin's family has nothing to do. When Aunt Lin's son came home, he found that his mother was not at home, and the family reunion dinner was not ready at night. He hurried to inform his mother. Aunt Lin suddenly woke up. Because she was busy cooking, she forgot that today was New Year's Eve, so she quickly said goodbye to her family, went home to make a New Year's Eve dinner and resigned.

After arriving home, Aunt Lin hurried to make a New Year's Eve dinner. Being in a hurry, she asked her son to help her cut garlic. Her son has been working in the field all year. Where did he know how to cook? He didn't even remove the roots of garlic. Wash it again, put it in the pot, and hurry to worship with all the dishes. When the family was sitting around eating New Year's Eve dinner, Aunt Lin found that the garlic was not cut off today, but everyone enjoyed it very much.

The story soon spread in the village. People think that eating garlic without roots is an auspicious sign. Since then, there must be a piece of garlic on the table on New Year's Eve, which has evolved into a custom. Later, people combined garlic with counting money, which means counting money every year, so garlic is also called "rich garlic" and "rich garlic" in Chaoshan area.

Now that society has entered a pluralistic era, people's attitude towards eating and drinking is more casual. If they eat what they like, they don't have to eat garlic in the New Year. However, some families still insist on cooking garlic on the table, even if no one eats it. It can be seen that the development of Chaoshan believers' society has become less traditional, but the etiquette and customs have been remembered by everyone. Many of their thousands of years of history and culture can be well preserved so far, and China culture is worth staying in China.