What do northerners eat for New Year’s Eve dinner?

Folk proverb: On the first day of the lunar month, dumplings are made, on the second day of the lunar month, the eggs are transferred home, on the fourth day of the lunar month, pancakes are fried with eggs, on the fifth day of the lunar month, a little person’s mouth is pinched, and on the seventh day of the lunar month, people eat longevity noodles. Northerners’ New Year’s Eve dinner is also colorful.

New Year's Day

1. New Year Cake - Because of its homophonic pronunciation of "year high" and its varied tastes, rice cake has become a must-have food for almost every household. . The styles of rice cakes include square yellow and white rice cakes, which symbolize gold and silver and convey the meaning of getting rich in the new year.

2. Ten Thousand Years of Grain - In some areas of Guangdong, the first meal of the Spring Festival is to eat "Ten Thousand Years of Grain", which means to prepare enough meals for the family for the three days of the Spring Festival, which means "no worries about eating and drinking" .

3. Dumplings - Eating dumplings on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day is a custom for northerners, but now many southerners have also joined the ranks of eating dumplings. Eating dumplings on New Year's Eve means "Geng Nian Jiao Zi" (good luck in the coming year). Eating dumplings on New Year's Day means good luck in the coming year.

4. Tangyuan - Tangyuan for breakfast on the first day of the Lunar New Year must have a special meaning. Its meaning is: everything goes well and the whole family is reunited happily.

5. Noodles - long noodles, also called longevity noodles. Eating longevity noodles on the first day of the Lunar New Year means "longevity every year" and wishes for a hundred years of life. Many elderly people still maintain With such customs.

6. Chicken soup - Drinking chicken soup on the first day of the Lunar New Year symbolizes "peace". In addition, the main labor force in the family also eats chicken feet, which means "making money in the New Year".

7. Sweets - Eating sweets on the first day of the Lunar New Year means that life will be beautiful and sweet in the new year.

The second day of the Lunar New Year

1. The noodles for the second day of the Lunar New Year should be made with the dumpling noodles from the first day of the Lunar New Year. And this noodle must be in cold soup. That is, the noodles are cooked and then soaked in cold water, which is called cold soup.

Nowadays, people usually braise or fry some sauce to make braised noodles or fried noodles. But it must be soaked in cold water to preserve the custom of "second grade noodles".

2. On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the daughter (along with her son-in-law) returns to her parents’ home to pay New Year greetings to her parents. Generally, you must eat things left over from the New Year's Eve dinner, such as chicken. You should keep the head, wings, feet, and tail for the New Year's Eve dinner, but you can eat it on the second day of the Lunar New Year.

If there is a New Year's Eve meal, cook more and save the New Year meal for the second day of the Lunar New Year. There must be bacon sausage, fish and noodles.

3. In the north, the God of Wealth is worshiped on the second day of the first lunar month. On this day, both commercial shops and ordinary families will hold activities to worship the God of Wealth. The five major sacrifices should be made, namely whole pigs, whole sheep, whole chickens, whole ducks, red live carp, etc., in the hope of making a fortune this year.

The third day of the Lunar New Year

1. It is sometimes believed that the birthday of the three millets on the first lunar month is celebrated. On this day, sacrifices are made to pray for good luck, and rice is not allowed.

2. As the saying goes: On the third day of the lunar month, the zygote goes home. The zygote is a kind of Chinese pasta, which is popular in northern China, especially in Beijing and Tianjin. The more common ones are leeks, fennel, eggs, and pork. The combinations of leeks + eggs, fennel + pork, and leeks + pork are the most common and popular.

Zhezi’s dough generally does not use fermented noodles, but uses hot noodles and cold noodles. Zhezi has thin skin, large filling and delicious taste, so it is very popular.

3. In some places in the north, it is popular to eat dumplings on the third day of the Lunar New Year. Since some people need to go out early and rush to the workplace at this time, the famous saying of folk customs and customs is: "Go out for dumplings and enter the store." . That is to say: when relatives leave home, eat dumplings to keep them safe. When we reunite next year, the blessings of relatives at home are all wrapped in dumplings.

On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year

Zheluo - On this day, the whole family eats Zheluo together. The so-called folding basket is a hodgepodge of leftover meals from the first to third grade of junior high school.

In the past, when people were not rich, they would not throw away the leftovers from the previous day. They would "fold" them together and cook them together the next day. The leftovers had a special taste and some people liked to eat them.

Dumplings on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year

Eating dumplings on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year carries the meaning of people's hope for good luck and happiness.

Old Beijing has a very particular rule. When eating dumplings on Po Wu, you must chop the meat fillings yourself, as well as the vegetable fillings. This means that everything will go smoothly in the coming year. Chop up all the unpleasant things. "Powu" dumplings are stuffed with a meatball. The shape of dumplings is oblate, which is very similar to the shape of Yuanbao, a symbol of wealth in ancient times.

When the family reunites and eats "Po Wu" dumplings, it means that in the new year, they can increase their wealth and live a better life.

The sixth day of the Lunar New Year

The "New Year's Eve" has passed and everything has returned to normal life. So you can eat whatever you like as usual.