The Spring Festival is the first day of the first lunar month, also known as the lunar calendar year, commonly known as the "New Year". This is the most solemn and lively traditional festival among the people in our country. The Spring Festival has a long history, and it originated from the worship of gods and ancestors in the first and second years of the Shang Dynasty. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, the first day of the first lunar month is called the New Year's Day, Yuanchen, Yuanzheng, Yuanshuo, and New Year's Day. When it comes to the New Year's Eve dinner, there is still a big difference between the north and south of the New Year's Eve dinner, and the climate and eating habits make the north and south of the north. There are differences in diet.
On New Year's Eve, every family is busy from morning to night, taking a shower in the morning and changing clothes, and preparing New Year's Eve dinner in the afternoon. The New Year’s Eve dinner is the most sumptuous family dinner of the year, and it is a reward and reward for the family who have been busy for a year. This meal is not just a delicacy, but more about reunion. With the company of the family, everything you eat is the most delicious. . So what are the differences between reunion dinners in the south and the north? If you can't go home for the New Year, which one would you love?
First of all, the New Year’s Eve dinner for southerners is mainly vegetarian food, and all kinds of vegetables must not be missing. There is actually not much meat, even if there is a quantity, it is very small. Seafood is also an indispensable delicacy in the New Year’s Eve dinner for southerners. There are countless seafood such as crabs, scallops, oysters, etc., which can be said to be very rich, not limited to fish and shrimp.
Let’s talk about the New Year’s Eve dinner in the north. In the north, some families also offer a bowl of rice. They cooked before the New Year and served for the New Year. This is called "New Year’s Eve dinner". There are leftovers every year and cannot be finished. I still eat this year. The meaning of grain in the past. This pot of New Year's Eve rice is usually cooked with mixed rice and millet. As the Beijing saying goes, "Ermizi rice", which is for yellow and white, which is called "there are gold and silver, and the pot is full of gold and silver." Eating dumplings is essential, and it means "renewal of the year" by changing the new and old. Also, because the white flour dumplings are shaped like silver ingots, they are served on the table in a pot, which means "making a fortune in the New Year, ingots roll in." Some people also put in a few sterilized coins from boiling water when making dumplings, saying that if anyone eats them first, they can make more money. There is a saying that people who pay attention to the New Year’s Eve dinner is "four and four bottoms". This includes four cold dishes, four hot stir-fried dishes, four meat dishes, four soup dishes, and . Nowadays, there are many kinds of meat, seafood, and there are many kinds of things.
I think it doesn’t matter what you eat during the Chinese New Year now. As long as you can reunite with your family, your family will be healthy and safer than anything else.