Types and significance of New Year's Eve dishes in Wenzhou.

A red tall bowl, thin slices of red vegetables, eel cakes and sauced meat, ten familiar cold dishes, and a steaming and delicious fried rice cake with rapeseed head in the middle ... Seeing this rich dish in the picture, Wenzhou people over 30 years old can recall the family reunion on New Year's Eve no matter where he is today. Although you can eat New Year's Eve in the grand hotel now, the New Year's Eve in childhood is the most unforgettable.

New Year's Eve is the dividing line between the old and the new. In Wenzhou, people call the New Year's Eve dinner wine sharing. According to the tradition of Wenzhou people, people who are far away from home will try their best to return to their families. The whole family, old and young, are beaming, eating wine and rice, talking about the past and discussing the present, and drinking comfortably. Therefore, no matter rich or poor, they will try their best to make the Chinese New Year wine richer.

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The traditional Wenzhou New Year's Eve dinner, with ten cold dishes and ten hot dishes, is dazzling and colorful. It is a wonderful display of Wenzhou cuisine folklore, which not only has rich special dishes, but also has cooking skills such as steaming, frying and scalding. Moreover, each dish is full of color, fragrance and taste, ingenious in conception and profound in meaning.

One, ten cold cuts:

1, 2. Sauced meat and chicken: also known as "bacon" and "preserved chicken". Soak fresh lean pork, chicken and duck in soy sauce (slightly seasoned) for a while, then dry and steam the food. It's better to dry for a few days when the west wind blows, and it tastes better. In the streets and alleys of Wenzhou, people see that under the eaves, bamboo poles are covered with bacon chickens and ducks, and they know that the New Year is coming!

3. Eel owl: In the twelfth lunar month, every household will make its own light eel owl. Choose fresh eels, cut them from the back, and hang them in a ventilated and cool place to dry naturally. Eel meat is tender, delicious, yellowish and silvery white. Steamed slices are sandwiched with fat slices, and then dipped in sauce, vinegar, pepper and other seasonings. Because "owl" and "Xiang" are homophonic in Wenzhou dialect, it is considered that eating "owl" makes people smart.

4. Fish cake: cut fish, fat, stone powder, tofu and other ingredients into long strips, fry them in an oil pan until golden brown, then steam them in the pan, and finally slice them for eating. The traditional Wenzhou fish cake is not only delicious, but also pays attention to the color of white inside and yellow outside, and is known as gold and silver.

5, celery pig ears: crispy pig ears and fresh celery, mixed with vegetarian dishes, red and green, is the best seasoning. It is said that eating pig ears can make people understand things and do things wisely.

6. Fried hairtail: Wenzhou is located along the coast, and its aquatic products are particularly fresh. After frying, hairtail often keeps attractive luster. Hairtail is long, like a silver protective sword, meaning "longevity".

7. Braised fish: The crispy yellow croaker (or carp) is shoveled out of the pot in hot water, and the air seems to be filled with the thick smell of braised fish. It is hidden in the basin to have a head and a tail. Eating fish also symbolizes "wealth" and "more than a year".

8. Dried chives and bean curd: The green chives and thin white bean curd, just like green onions mixed with dried tofu, mean "innocence".

9, hand flower ball: Because it is pinched by hand, it is called. Add shredded radish, dried bean curd, flour and other seasonings. Knead it into a ball and fry it in the oil pan. It is golden and crisp, and you can never get tired of eating it. Hard work can create wealth.

10, flower clam: commonly known as "blood clam" and "blood clam". Because the shell is uneven, it is also called "ripple". This is a common cold dish at parties. The flower cockroach should be boiled in boiling water before eating. Mastering the heat is the key, too cooked, the meat turns yellow and the flavor is exhausted; It's too hot, the mouth is closed and it can't be peeled off; It is best to peel off the mussels after scalding. At this time, the mussel meat is fresh and tender, which has the function of enriching blood.

Secondly, there are ten main courses, and each hot dish has an auspicious name.

Rising year by year-fried rice cakes; One shot is red gun glue;

Open the door-braised pork; Official and Qing dynasty-dried vermicelli moth;

A bright future-a golden rooster; Family gathering-three fresh soups;

More than a year-braised whole fish; New year's harvest-knocking fish soup;

There is money in the dish-vegetable meat; Early red in the New Year-red jujube eight-treasure rice;

Among the top ten hot dishes, except fried rice cakes, braised pork and eight-treasure rice, other recipes can be slightly adjusted. According to Mr. Wang Jinrong, who comes from a famous cooking family, the traditional Wenzhou New Year's Eve dinner is also very particular about "ten reds". Namely:

Red square table, red tall bowl, red chopsticks, braised pork, carrot slices,

Red candle, red jujube eight-treasure rice, red wine (Zhuangyuanhong), red orange, red birthday bag;

China people like red, and Wenzhou people are no exception. All good things and happy events are indicated in red. The red color of New Year's Eve symbolizes the festive and auspicious atmosphere of the New Year, and also indicates that life will be happy and prosperous in the coming year. In short, Wenzhou Fenjiu dishes fully reflect people's wishes and expectations for a better future. You can sum up "perfection" and "prosperity" in eight words!

The rice plastic New Year's Eve dinner is amazing.

But what I want to tell you is that this rich Wenzhou New Year's Eve dinner, a mouth-watering cold dish and a hot dish, is a group of beautiful and wonderful rice carvings. Can you believe it? It was made of rice flour by Wang Jinrong, a master of rice carving in Wenzhou, according to the custom of Wenzhou New Year's Eve dinner. You must be surprised! So vivid, so lifelike, it's amazing to confuse the real with the fake!

In 2004 10, the "2004 China Folk Art Competition" held by China Folk Writers Association and other units opened in the beautiful Xizi Lake. More than 80 artists from 17 provinces and cities (regions) came to the competition with their unique skills. The performance area of Wang Jinrong, a master of rice carving in Wenzhou, was crowded with onlookers, and people gave out bursts of admiration from time to time. A vivid "Wenzhou New Year's Eve" is coming out one after another. Wang Jinrong chose Fenjiu, which best embodies the New Year characteristics of Wenzhou people, as the theme of rice sculpture. He mixed rice flour with pigment, and rubbed, pinched, pinched and carved it with only one pair of hands and a knife. In his skillful hands, he carved with his magic knife, just like cooking with a spoon. In an instant, colorful rice flour balls became delicious New Year's Eve. He took out a red tall bowl that had been handed down for a hundred years, and carefully laid out ten dishes, such as eel owl, sauced meat, etc. Each dish was covered with a piece of plum blossom and red cabbage. There is also the main course of fried rice cake with vegetable head, which is sprinkled with sauced meat, red vegetable strips and other seasonings. This is an indispensable menu for Wenzhou people's New Year's Eve dinner, entitled "Perfect Taste (Beauty)".

When a gorgeous exhibition of Wenzhou New Year pictures and rice sculptures appeared in front of everyone, all the audience were immediately intoxicated. Really like a pinch, vivid and realistic. Look at this plate of water perm, natural and smooth crepe, concave-convex and orderly ripple; Look at steamed eel owl, silver skin, fresh owl meat; There are also red and yellow pieces of red vegetables, fat and thin sauce meat ... Wang Jinrong used the long-standing Wenzhou rice carving skills to make this New Year's Eve dinner with a strong Wenzhou local flavor vividly, fully demonstrating the charm and elegance of Wenzhou traditional folk art.

A pair of painters from afar were deeply attracted by Wang Jinrong's skillful skills, and they couldn't help asking: How did you directly produce dozens of three-dimensional foods without physical reference? Wang Jinrong said with a smile while doing it: I mainly observe the front, carefully study the shape and color of the work, and record it as data parameters in my mind, so I have a carefully planned operation. You can ask questions at will ... The painter named it "Banana", and Wang Jinrong soon made a big banana, bright yellow and green. Other viewers ordered some more fruit, and Wang Jinrong made it so fast that the TV photographer asked him to slow down the production. Wenzhou rice carving art really touched the judges and opened the eyes of the audience!

Skillful Wang Jinrong won the silver medal in one fell swoop.

Wang Jinrong was born in a catering family, and is a descendant of Wenzhou Wang family's sculpture, cold dishes, rice carving and cooking family. From an early age, he was ingenious. He began to study art at the age of seven, and was influenced by his grandfather and father's example and art. After more than 40 years of hard work and exploration, his three cooking skills of three-dimensional cold cuts, rice carving and vegetable carving have become famous. Many works have been praised and collected by central leaders, Japanese, European and American guests. He is also good at clay sculpture, wood carving, root carving, stone carving, painting and other skills. On the basis of inheriting the traditional cooking skills of the family, we learn the essence of various handicrafts and skillfully integrate them into our own food production. When cooking, we pay more attention to its plastic arts. Anyone who is familiar with him knows that his food works are not only rich in materials, wide in subject matter, novel in conception and ingenious in combination, but also incorporate art into food and dishes, whether cold cuts, hot dishes, rice carvings and vegetable carvings. It is very ornamental and can be called a beautiful work of art. He said: in food consumption, a dish with exquisite shape can stimulate customers' appetite more. Although food works are for people to taste, they are destroyed at the touch, and he always takes them as works of art to elaborate them, especially the original three-dimensional cold dishes of China cuisine are second to none, which can be said to have achieved a comprehensive understanding of food and art and set each other off. There are many well-known stories in the industry.

1984, former State Councilor Gu Mu visited Wenzhou for the first time. Wang Jinrong's three-dimensional cold dishes, Eagle Strikes the Sky and Golden Rooster Dawn, are vivid. When he learned that it was made of ham, beef, chicken breast and egg yolk, the central leaders repeatedly praised it and specially took a group photo with him as a souvenir.

1986, at the grand reception of the sister city between Ishinomaki and Wenzhou, Wang Jinrong used fish, shrimp, crab and cucumber to create three-dimensional cold dishes "The Wonder of the World Yandang Mountain" and "Dongou Penglai Jiang Xinyu" to entertain distinguished guests. The beautiful scenery and exquisite layout make Japanese guests full of praise, and they are reluctant to get off the bus.

There are also many food art works in Wang Jinrong that have created the best in the country, such as: melon carving works: the seven fairies descended to earth 2.56 meters high and 2.8 meters wide; Splendid china1.72m high and 5.8m wide; Butter sculpture: the fairy scattered flowers are 3.2 meters high and 4.8 meters wide; The giant cake is 2.55 meters high; ……

In fact, Wang Jinrong's accomplishments in rice carving technology are no less than three-dimensional cold carving. Large rice sculpture: Jiangnan scenery 1. 85 meters long, 6. 5 meters; The "General Shuihu 108" with an area of 5 square meters, the heroes of all walks of life are lifelike; The 4-meter-high "the Monkey King makes a scene in Heaven" is 2. The 35-meter "Jigong Fighting Cricket" and so on are still fresh in people's memory. The most rare thing is that his original "three defenses" technology can keep rice plastic works for a long time. In the old days, the biggest headache for rice sculptors was the life span of their works. Because rice flour is used as raw material, no matter how beautiful the work is, it often cracks the next day, followed by mildew or insect bite. In 1960s, Wang Jinrong, who worked in a catering company, began to think. He tried to adjust the reference of raw powder and absorb antiseptic elements. After countless times of mould rope tests, he finally mastered the "three defenses" of rice plastic against cracking, mildew and moth. 1976, Dear Premier Zhou Enlai passed away. With great sadness and reverence, Wang Jinrong made Premier Zhou Enlai's stereo with "three defenses" technology, which has been well preserved for 28 years. 1989, a foreign colleague offered his secret recipe of "three defenses" at a high price, but he politely refused.

Because it has solved the problem of difficult preservation of rice sculptures, many of the best rice sculptures in Wang Jinrong, such as Yandang Lingfeng, Magu Birthday Festival, Antarctic Xianweng, Eighteen Arhats, etc. It is treasured by foreign guests from more than 65,438+00 countries in the United States, Japan and Western Europe. Zhu Xian Tu and Huang Zhong (a figure of the Three Kingdoms) won the gold medal of 1996 and 1999 China Art Exhibition respectively. In 2004, China Folk Fine Art Competition, his sculptures were like gods, and his wonderful hands shone brightly. The rice carving "Wenzhou New Year's Eve" won the silver award in one fell swoop. Therefore, he won the first place in the nomination award of "Top Ten Folk Artists in China". Nowadays, Wang Jinrong, who is also the director of Wenzhou Folk Art Creation Committee and the vice chairman of Lucheng Folk Writers Association, is all over the world, and his artistic achievements have been recognized by all walks of life. However, the cause he fought for is far from over, and new topics and new goals keep calling him forward. We will wait and see, and wish him more brilliant achievements for Wenzhou folk art!