Customs of reunion dinner

New Year’s Eve dinner is also called reunion dinner. New Year's Eve is an extremely important day for the Chinese. On this day, people prepare to get rid of the old and welcome the new, and have a reunion dinner.

Introduction

Family is the cornerstone of Chinese society. The annual reunion dinner fully demonstrates the mutual respect and love of Chinese family members. This mutual respect and love makes a family happy. The relationship between them is closer. The reunion of the family often brings spiritual comfort and satisfaction to the head of the family. The old man sees his children and grandchildren in the house, and the whole family talks about their family life. The past care and efforts in raising the children are finally not in vain. What a happiness it is. The younger generation can also take this opportunity to express their gratitude to their parents for their upbringing.

When the children are playing and setting off firecrackers, it is also the busiest time for the housewives in the kitchen. The New Year dishes have been prepared a few days ago, and the New Year’s Eve dinner must be cooked on New Year’s Eve. Make it. In the north, dumplings for the New Year's Day are also made on the 30th night. At this time, every chopping board was busy chopping meat and chopping vegetables. At this time, the sound of chopping boards came from every house, the sound of firecrackers came from the streets and alleys, the sound of "crackling" abacus and the mellow sound of accounts coming from the small shops, mixed with the chatter and laughter everywhere, one after another. , filled with ears, intertwined into a cheerful New Year's Eve movement.

Recipes

Eating New Year’s Eve dinner is the most lively and happy time for every household during the Spring Festival. New Year's Eve. The table is filled with sumptuous New Year dishes, and the family is reunited. Sitting around the table and having the reunion dinner together, the sense of fulfillment in my heart is really indescribable. People not only enjoy the table full of delicacies, but also enjoy the happy atmosphere. There are big dishes, cold basins, hot stir-fries, and snacks on the table. Generally, two things are indispensable, one is hot pot. One is fish. The hot pot is boiling, steaming, warm and sultry, indicating that it is booming; "fish" and "yu" are homophonic, which symbolizes "abundance in auspicious celebrations" and "abundance every year". There are also radish, commonly known as cabbage, which is used to wish you good luck. Fried foods such as lobsters and fried fish are used to wish prosperity to the family, just like "fire cooking oil". The last dish is usually a sweet dish, wishing you a sweet future. On this day, even if you don't know how to drink, you can drink some. A little. In ancient times, when drinking during the New Year, great attention was paid to the quality of the wine. Some wines are no longer available, leaving only many attractive wine names, such as wine, Lanwei wine, Yichun wine, plum blossom wine, peach blossom wine, etc.

Food Customs

On New Year's Eve, no matter how far apart they are or how busy they are at work, people always want to go back to their homes and have a reunion dinner. Sometimes they really can't go home. , the family members always leave a seat and a pair of bowls and chopsticks for him to express their reunion with him. This New Year's Eve dinner is also called a "family feast" and is a family banquet that people attach great importance to.

As the saying goes. Okay, hit one thousand, scold ten thousand, and have a meal on the evening of the 30th. According to our country's traditional folk customs, the New Year's Eve dinner is very particular, usually including wontons, dumplings, long noodles, Yuanxiao, etc.

< p> Eating wontons on the New Year means the beginning of the new year. It is said that Pangu opened the sky and split the earth, so that "the light and clear air that floats up is the sky, and the heavy and turbid air that condenses down is the earth." This ended the state of chaos. There are four directions in the universe. Furthermore, "wonton" is homophonic to "hundun", which means "full of food".

Dumplings

are also called flat food. Or cook dumplings. In ancient times, there were only wontons but not dumplings. Later, the wontons were made into crescent shapes and became dumplings. In the Tang Dynasty, the habit of eating dumplings was spread to remote areas on New Year's Eve. When the bell rings, we start eating dumplings, so it is the time when the new year comes.

Long noodles

It is also called longevity noodles and is eaten in the New Year. , I wish you a hundred years of longevity. All pasta in ancient times was called cakes, so noodle soup was also called soup cakes at first. The first dough was not rolled or pressed, but the mixed noodles were torn into pieces by hand. , similar to the methods of "Crow's Head" and "Hou'erzi" eaten in the north. After the Tang Dynasty, chopping boards were used to roll noodles, and then there were gradually long noodles, short noodles, dry noodles, plain noodles, meat noodles, and dried noodles. ...

Yuanxiao

Also known as Tangyuan, it is more common in the south. It is made of glutinous rice and rolled into a round shape (different flavors of fillings can be added), and then put into a pot. Cooking means reunion. Lantern Festival is usually served as breakfast or as a staple food for New Year's dinner. This delicacy is very popular in restaurants, hotels and homes.

In many places, it is also served as a side dish with New Year's dinner. , if you want to seek auspicious words.

Eat dates (spring comes early), persimmons (all goes well), almonds (happiness comes), tofu (family portrait), three fresh vegetables (Sanyang Kaitai), longevity fruit (immortality), rice cake (rice cake) New Year's Eve rice cakes (rice cakes are getting more expensive every year)... Of course, the variety of New Year's Eve dinners is even more abundant now. Chicken, duck, fish, delicacies, and about the best dishes that can be seen in a year are all on the table.

According to traditional folk customs, the food customs of New Year's Eve dinners in different parts of our country are different: northerners eat dumplings, southerners eat rice dumplings and water-milled rice cakes, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong and other places eat Yuanxiao on the first day of the Lunar New Year, or Fried or boiled; people in Zhangzhou, Fujian eat raw garlic and preserved eggs on the morning of the first day of the lunar month; people in Chaozhou, Guangdong eat the local unique "fuyuan" on the first day of the lunar month; people of the Hui ethnic group eat noodles and stewed meat on the first day of the first lunar month, and only eat dumplings on the second day of the lunar month.

Wontons

Eating wontons during the New Year means the beginning of the new year. It is said that Pangu opened the sky and split the earth, so that "the light and clear air that floats up is the sky, and the heavy and turbid air that condenses down is the earth." This ended the state of chaos and created the four directions of the universe. Furthermore, "wonton" and "hundun" are homophonic, which means having a full store of food.

New Year Cake

The custom of eating New Year Cake during the Spring Festival began in the Song Dynasty and flourished in the Ming Dynasty. Eating rice cakes, from the auspicious meaning of "every year (sticky) high (cake)", is interpreted to mean rising every year.

Fish

Eating fish during the Spring Festival is very particular, as it indicates that there will be plenty every year, so eating fish during the Spring Festival is a custom among old Beijingers