New Year's Day is the common name of the New Year in most countries in the world, and it is the first day of the new year in the Gregorian calendar. In ancient China, New Year's Day referred to the first day of the summer calendar, that is, the first day of the first lunar month, while in Western countries, New Year's Day referred to the first day of the year in the Common Era. Since the introduction of the Gregorian calendar to China, the term New Year's Day has been used exclusively for the New Year. There are many local traditional activities and customs on New Year's Day, for the activities and customs of New Year's Day, we can learn together to understand the colorful and connotative significance of the traditional festivals of the Chinese nation.
1. Eat dumplings.
Eating dumplings on New Year's Day is popular in the northern region, generally eating meat filling on the evening of the 31st, and vegetarian filling on the morning of the first day of the New Year. New Year's dumplings should have thin skin, more filling, kneaded tightly, can not be boiled, meat dumplings generally have pork, mutton, beef, chicken, there are also two kinds of meat mixed together mandarin duck dumplings, mixed "dumpling feast". Vegetarian dumplings are made with a variety of fresh vegetables. There are many forms of dumplings, including crown top dumplings, butterfly dumplings, goldfish dumplings, lace dumplings, as well as crescent moon dumplings that are pushed, stacked, twisted, and pinched, as well as squeezed wooden fish dumplings. Today I recommend a fresh shepherd's cabbage meat stuffed dumplings, delicious, nutritious and delicious, don't say that there is no fresh shepherd's cabbage in winter, you go to the field to look for it, you can still find it. The dumplings wrapped in shepherd's cabbage are really fresh, much more delicious than cabbage and radish, so you must try it.
Ingredients: 400 grams of flour, appropriate amount of shepherd's cabbage, appropriate amount of minced meat, minced green onion, minced ginger, a little salt, a little soy sauce, a little peanut oil.
1. Shepherd's cabbage is a kind of wild vegetable, although it is planted, but it is not as good as wild shepherd's cabbage, and the green leaves in the picture above are wild shepherd's cabbage in winter. If you go to the field to dig shepherd's cabbage, you need to recognize the appearance of the shepherd's cabbage, otherwise you won't know what vegetables to dig up.
2. Dig up the shepherd's cabbage, pick and wash it, put it in boiling water and blanch it slightly, immediately take it out and put it in cold water to cool, pinch off the excess water and chop it into minced pieces. Add salt and soy sauce to the meat filling and mix well to taste, then add minced green onion, ginger, peanut oil and mix well, and finally add chopped shepherd's cabbage and stir well, and the meat filling is mixed well. Take out the mixed dough and knead it well, roll it out into a thin dumpling wrapper, and take a dumpling wrapper and put the appropriate amount of filling.
3. After the dumpling skin is folded in half, pinch it tightly with both hands, and the dumplings will be wrapped, if you don't know how to pinch it with both hands, you can close the mouth without revealing the filling in your own way, wrap all the dumplings, put them on the curtain, and you can boil the dumplings in boiling water.
4. After the water in the pot is boiled, boil the dumplings, gently push the dumplings with a spoon to make the dumplings move in the pot to prevent the dumplings from sticking to the pot, cover the lid and cook the dumplings and take them out.
2. Eat glutinous rice balls.
On New Year's Day and New Year's Day, many places in the south have the traditional custom of eating glutinous rice balls, and various New Year's Day activities also make us feel more happy holidays. Today I will share with you a new method of glutinous rice balls, chocolate kernel flow-through filling, which represents a sweet and delicious life, if you like it, let's take a look!
Ingredients: a little glutinous rice flour, 2 spinach, appropriate amount of praline chocolate.
1. Clean the spinach, put it in a food processor and whip it into spinach juice, pour it into glutinous rice flour, and mix the glutinous rice noodles into a soft and hard dough.
2. Chop the praline chocolate, this chocolate tastes very good and is suitable for glutinous rice balls.
3. Break the good glutinous rice dough into small pieces of the same size, press a nest, put the cut nut chocolate directly into it, you can close the mouth, form a round ball, and the green chocolate glutinous rice balls are ready, after all are done, put them on the plate, the light green color is very pleasing to the eye.
4. Put cold water in the pot and boil, change to medium-low heat, put in the rice balls, gently push the rice balls to prevent them from sticking to the bottom of the pot, then cover the lid and simmer for about 10 minutes. Take out the glutinous rice balls and start eating, take a bite of the chocolate flowing, the nuts inside are fragrant, the taste is quite good, children can eat several, if you like it, try it.
3. Do 1 thing: sweep the dust.
New Year's Day is very close to the Spring Festival, and our country has the custom of sweeping dust on New Year's Day and New Year in the Yaoshun era. Folk saying: because of the homonym of "dust" and "Chen", the New Year's Day and New Year dust sweeping has the meaning of "removing Chen Buxin", its intention is to sweep all the poor luck and bad luck out of the door, this custom entrusts people with the desire to break the old and establish the new and the prayer to leave the old and welcome the new.
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