What's so particular about New Year's Eve?

On New Year's Eve, we pay attention to it. In Shanxi, we mainly drink Chuangtang (note: a kind of soup, which is made by mixing meatballs, kelp, tofu, jiaozi, sliced meat and instant noodles). Almost every family drinks Zhuang soup in the evening. Before eating, you should worship your ancestors and then set off firecrackers before you can start eating.

But on New Year's Eve, breakfast and noon, there is really nothing to pay attention to.

Note that it is from the first day to the third day of the first month. In the morning and evening of these three days, I usually drink Zhuangtang. At noon, it is mainly rice with at least four dishes and one soup, and jiaozi.

There is nothing to pay attention to after grade three. Just visiting relatives and receiving friends, the staple food is rice, jiaozi and bread, but depending on the number of visitors, at least six dishes should be fried.

Different winds in a hundred miles, different customs in a thousand miles. There is a situation in one place. Let me talk about the situation in my hometown of southwest Shandong.

breakfast

Nothing special in the morning. Eat breakfast normally, and eat jiaozi. By the 30th, basically every household is almost ready for the Spring Festival. If anything is missing, it will definitely go to the market to buy it this morning. At ten o'clock, basically everyone is posting couplets and God's old stove, so it must be posted before lunch. If you don't post it, you will be suspected of having something at home. Three years after the old man died, he stopped posting.

lunch

For lunch, our standard is cauldron, stewed with meatballs, vermicelli and meat. The stews are the same in every family, but they must be served. There is also a custom that relatives, neighbors and elders must be given a bowl, which continues to this day. Now that life is good, we will also have some side dishes and drink some wine. Also, be sure to eat at home, which is probably a symbol of Chinese New Year reunion.

dinner

After lunch, you should pack jiaozi. Generally, you pack a lot, and you should pack everything at night and on New Year's Day. Before dinner, every family will go to the ancestral grave to invite "grandparents" to their home for the New Year as a sign of filial piety, then burn incense and kowtow, and then set off firecrackers to cook jiaozi. When cooking jiaozi, firecrackers must be lit at the same time. Dinner is jiaozi with garlic or cold dishes. Generally, dinner is eaten earlier, and firecrackers will be heard at 4 pm, indicating that someone has begun to eat. After dinner, they just watch the Spring Festival Gala, watch the Spring Festival Gala, play mahjong, get together with relatives and friends, drink and watch the vigil. I remember when I was young, all my family members gathered in our house. Now everyone takes turns to come, this year at your house and next year at his house. Let's drink and chat, talk about the harvest of one year, plans for next year, and look forward to the arrival of the New Year.

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Now, with the changes of the times, some dietary customs are changing, but no matter how they change, people's expectations for the New Year and their yearning for a better life have not changed.

I am from the south, so there should be differences between the north and the south, or different customs in different places. For example, in my family, I usually eat a little in the morning as usual. After dinner, I packed my dishes and prepared for the New Year's Eve dinner. We basically don't eat Chinese food here, because everyone gets up late and breakfast and lunch are almost the same, so we only eat two meals a day.

After breakfast, we began to prepare the ingredients for the New Year's Eve dinner. If there are many people in the family, men, women and children have their own division of labor. Everyone is talking and laughing together, and we can eat when they are ready, not sooner or later.

For example, my family is basically ready, and we will start eating New Year's Eve dinner around 6 pm, sometimes around 4 pm. After dinner, the family will sit in front of the TV and watch the Spring Festival Gala, which is also a happy scene.

Eating steamed stuffed buns in the morning, taking a bite at noon and having a big meal at night are the arrangements for my family to have three meals a day for 30 nights.

New Year's Eve is the happiest day of the year. Because I basically finished all the preparatory work years ago, I was full and hung high, just waiting to put on new clothes for dinner. The most important thing is that the exhausting cleaning work has also been completed, and a Spring Festival couplets can be posted at most.

After 30 nights, on New Year's Day, I will be busy paying New Year's greetings, visiting relatives and friends, eating spring branches in turn at home, and it will be my turn to entertain relatives at home. The whole holiday will be very busy and I won't be able to relax. So only thirty nights make me look forward to it.

On this day, you can eat the long-awaited New Year's Eve dinner. Delicious and refreshing chowder, dazzling platter, and spicy braised large intestine ... In fact, it is very tiring to prepare too many ingredients and do too much preliminary work, but because my mother cooked our family's New Year's Eve dinner, I don't have to do it. Mom has worked hard (hug)!

Every year on the 30th, my mother gets up early. Make a good breakfast, usually a very simple breakfast. For example, heat a porridge and a few steamed buns, because during the Chinese New Year, every family here has to steam steamed buns, at least 100, and every family has to eat them for a long time after the Chinese New Year. During the Spring Festival, steamed stuffed buns are the most convenient staple food at home.

At breakfast, my mother always tells us to eat more, because we are busy with the New Year's Eve dinner, so we usually eat lunch very late.

Actually, being late for lunch is a kind of "cheating", hehe. Because-there is no lunch at all, haha! We were very hungry when we ate steamed bread in the morning. You know, the homemade buns are very big and the stuffing is particularly full. A person who eats two steamed buns is really not hungry at noon.

Mother made several semi-finished products in one morning. For example, chicken soup should be boiled out as the earliest soup; The soup is also ready; Radish soup is also ready ... and I just do some small things like changing eggs, peeling, slicing, washing shrimps and picking vegetables, and I am busy unconsciously. It's noon.

People who are really hungry at noon basically can't eat staple food, and mom won't prepare the staple food for this day (snickering) ~ When you are hungry, you can drink soup, soup, black soup and chicken soup, just take a bite. During the Spring Festival, a fashionable word-"whole year" is popular here. I am not hungry when I see delicious food every day, hehe.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, my mother officially cooked the New Year's Eve dinner. Generally the whole process takes about two hours. Our family usually starts eating at five o'clock, because the whole family is laughing and laughing together. This New Year's Eve dinner usually takes an hour or two. You need to pack up quickly after eating, because the Spring Festival party will start at eight o'clock!

Our family's New Year's Eve dinner is very rich. Because my mother cooks every year, the dishes are similar every year, but they are especially delicious when eaten every year.

My family's New Year's Eve dishes: cold dish platter, the first dish is assorted soup, braised glutinous rice balls, braised prawns, radish and black bean vermicelli soup, braised large intestine, taro soup, beef sauce, sweet and sour pork ribs, braised mutton, stir-fried dishes, fried lotus root cakes, fried spring rolls, and finally fish, followed by a green vegetable and tofu soup, which means innocence every year, happiness every year and abundance every year.

New Year's Eve is a local custom. In the past 30 years in Northeast China, ancestors have been worshipped, New Year pictures have been posted, and doors have been posted. Breakfast is not very particular. In Northeast China, every household should steam bean buns, steamed buns, flower rolls, steamed buns and jiaozi before the age of 30. Because it was cold in the north, they put them in a big vat outside and covered them with a big iron pot. In the north, they call it new year's goods. When eating, take it out and steam it before eating, which saves trouble. In the north, there are exquisite first days of the first month to the fifth day of the first month, and no knives are used. It is also a symbol of China New Year. In Northeast China, the Spring Festival is full of flavor, and people have to visit relatives and friends to celebrate the New Year, so every family must buy good things for the New Year before the New Year. This is the so-called busy year. When it comes to having lunch at the age of 30, the northeast people are particular. When our parents are here, we want the whole family to get together. You can't eat without it. Before eating, you should worship your ancestors and pay attention to your seats. Parents sit in the main seat. If there is milk, I will sit in the main seat. When serving food, I also pay attention to it, cooling it first and then heating it. Don't underestimate the Chinese New Year in the Northeast. You can call it stress. Although the conditions were not good before, every family can have money in the New Year. In the past, pigs were raised at home, and there were many dishes to kill pigs before the Chinese New Year. In my family, there must be chicken and fish in the Spring Festival. Without chicken and fish, it will not be a feast, and meat is indispensable. There are ribs, minced meat, southern croquettes, braised pork, fried meat rolls, sausages, cold dishes and pickles. Fresh vegetables are very expensive in the North during the Spring Festival, but people in the Northeast still buy stir-fry, stir-fry beans, stir-fry green peppers, stir-fry garlic moss, stir-fry fish, stir-fry sliced mushrooms, stir-fry fungus, and educated people will hang paste and make some sweet and sour dishes. In short, this meal is the most luxurious and exquisite. In the north, this meal also means robbing money. Whoever sets off firecrackers first means that his family has arrived, dinner is ready and money is coming. In the evening, the whole family will pack jiaozi Bao, and the whole family will play together for a while, while jiaozi will pack. Children play with lanterns to celebrate New Year's Eve and distribute lucky money. They want to eat jiaozi on the first morning. Pay a New Year call after dinner. In a word, New Year's Eve is the most important thing for Chinese New Year.

To tell the truth, eat whatever you want and don't waste it. Now that living conditions are good, there is no shortage of food and drink. As long as the family is happy and healthy. It doesn't matter what you eat, but who you are with is king.

People from Jilin in Northeast China, let's grab a bite in the morning at 30, and then prepare the meal in the afternoon. We usually start eating from 0: 30 to 2: 00 in the afternoon/kloc-0. This meal is also our biggest meal of the year. After dinner, those who can play mahjong and poker began to play, and the ladies at home began to prepare jiaozi and vegetables at midnight. Our family cooks six dishes in the middle of the night, including jiaozi!

Coordinate Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, answer what our family eats on New Year's Eve!

breakfast

Rice porridge, steamed bread (wrapped at home)

New Year's Eve is winter. In winter, we basically steam steamed buns in every household. But this steamed bread is not the kind of big white steamed bread in the north, and it has stuffing inside.

Overview: Sesame sugar steamed bread, vegetable steamed bread and shredded radish steamed bread (sesame seeds, vegetables and white radish grown at home).

Features: bean paste steamed bread, meat steamed bread. These two kinds of small crowdsourcing.

This steamed bread looks like a big steamed bread outside, not a crumpled steamed bread sold outside. Fattening (fermentation) with alkaline water, and then wrapping. I remember that this also requires technology. My father failed once, resulting in my family having no steamed bread to eat that winter.

Chinese food (especially exquisite)

Sacrificing ancestors at noon on New Year's Eve means burning paper money, toasting and kowtowing to relatives who died at home.

After a few minutes, I thought my ancestors had finished eating, and then I began to clean up the burnt paper money and dispose of the ashes. Then I have to reheat the dishes and rice before I can give them to us who are alive. Chopsticks, wine and rice should be taken back to the kitchen, put away, and then served, and the family began to eat lunch.

After lunch, the whole family will take the remaining paper money to visit the grave, just like Tomb-Sweeping Day, and visit the dead relatives.

Dinner (reunion)

New Year's Eve is estimated to be a day for all members of China. They usually eat a lot. But because there are more "three highs" in recent years, our family really doesn't eat as much as others. Mainly eat hot pot, induction cooker hot pot.

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The customs of each place are different, but they all have their own characteristics. However, in any case, China New Year is a time for reunion. It doesn't matter whether the food is good or not. What matters is the warmth and excitement of a family together.

Now, as usual, there is not so much pressure in the Spring Festival. At most, there will be more meat and vegetables at the reunion dinner.

Eat whatever you want, not most people are particular about it.