What are the customs in Hunan during the Spring Festival?

Hunan people should start with the New Year's Eve dinner. They will definitely eat chicken, meat and fish on New Year's Eve, and it must be big fish and big meat. Stew the whole chicken, choose the rooster, and put the head of the chicken on it after stewing; Sprinkle red pepper on the steamed fish. Don't finish the fish for 30 nights until the first day of the month. This symbolizes that there is enough food every year, and pepper certainly represents prosperity. After eating some snacks in the morning of the first day of junior high school, you should prepare rice wine cooked the day before, also called sweet wine. The materials of sweet wine are glutinous rice, gauze and medicated wine specially brought from Hunan, which is similar to all our yeasts for fermentation. Rinse the glutinous rice in advance and soak it overnight. Take out the glutinous rice, wrap it in gauze and put it on the steamer. Spread it and steam it in a pot 10 minute. At this time, open the pot and pour some warm water evenly on the rice. Then steam for 10 minute, take out and cool. Don't worry! It's not over yet. When the rice is cold, sprinkle the powder on the rice and stir it evenly by hand. Finally, compact the rice, cover it, wrap the basin with a cotton coat or sweater that you don't usually wear, and then put on a bag. The heat preservation effect will be better! Wrap it and put it in a hot place, usually next to the heater at home for fermentation. The next day, the rice will be sweet, and it will taste like white wine. So the rice wine is ready.

Chinese New Year's rice wine is ready. Of course, big fish and big meat. Before cooking, we should first trace the characteristics of Hunan cuisine. Everyone knows that Jiangxi people are not afraid of spicy food, Sichuan people are not afraid of spicy food, and Hunan people are not afraid of spicy food. The purpose of playing word games is to describe Hunan people's habit of eating spicy food. Hunan cuisine loves to put peppers, which can be said to be the spiritual totem of Huxiang culture. There are also various preparation methods. Spicy words are the first, and color, fragrance and taste are also taken into account, so that diners are sweating after eating, and their lips and teeth are fragrant and have a long aftertaste! The famous dishes in Hunan cuisine are all ordinary things, such as fried chicken with ginger, fish head with chopped pepper in Xiangtan, braised pork in Mao style and so on. They are all economical and affordable, and the price and taste are approachable, so they are widely sought after by the public diners.

The raw materials for making chopped pepper fish head are: a chubby fish head, chopped pepper, onion and ginger made by Aunt Su. It is also very simple to make. After washing the fish, chop off the fish head, cut it in half, and steam it on an inflatable steamer for 2 minutes. In these two minutes, you should put the base oil in the wok, add chopped green onion and ginger slices into the oil and saute until fragrant, then put the homemade chopped pepper into the wok and stir fry according to your personal taste. After frying, pour the pepper on the fish head in the steamer, so that the fire will steam together 15 minutes. 15 minutes later, the fish head with chopped pepper with Hunan flavor and family characteristics can be cooked. We can't wait to have a bite first It can be said that the fish is tender, the gum is smooth and spicy! There is a small problem here. I think you will ask, what is homemade chopped pepper? Can we arrive on time? Of course, the answer is yes. I asked Aunt Su for advice again and again before I left. Now I will share it with you. Homemade chopped pepper is also very simple: the main raw material is red pepper, as well as garlic, ginger slices, salt and sesame oil. Wipe the pepper with a wet towel, dry it, chop it with a knife, add garlic, ginger slices and salt, add more salt, stir it evenly, expose it to the air for 2 hours, then put it in a crock, and finally pour in 2 ounces of sesame oil and seal the crock for about 20 days. If you don't have a crock at home, you can use a glass jar, but it won't taste as good as a crock. This homemade chopped pepper is a magic weapon to make chopped pepper fish head. If you do well, you might as well shine during the Chinese New Year holiday.

Hunan has a tradition of eating bacon during the Spring Festival, but unlike Sichuan people who eat steamed bacon, Hunan people like to fry bacon with fragrant dried beans or dried beans, which is delicious and chewy. Sometimes winter bamboo shoots will be fried with bacon, so that there will be a fresh feeling besides salty fragrance. But today I want to introduce you to bacon fish. Raw materials include preserved meat, preserved fish and preserved fish made from air-dried grass carp. In addition to these, there are also lobster sauce and chopped pepper specially brought from Hunan. First, Uncle Peng washed the dried lobster sauce, put it on bacon and preserved fish with pepper, and steamed it together 1 hour.

When the bacon and fish are out of the pot for an hour, let's first introduce some differences between Hunan people and Beijingers in Chinese New Year entertainment. Beijingers plan to visit temple fairs and watch a performance during the Spring Festival, but in Hunan, besides paying New Year's greetings, watching dragon lanterns and setting off firecrackers, there are also flower drum plays. An hour later, the bacon fish was out of the pot. We ate a piece of bacon with a layer of dried pepper on it. Wow! It's really spicy. This is a wonderful and addictive spicy taste. The first taste is very strong, and the boutique is like a different kind of delicious food.