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Since ancient times. Chinese New Year's Eve is an extremely important occasion.
The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is even more Chinese New Year's Eve.
An essential link.
Family reunion, sit around the table.
This is when we celebrate the New Year.
The most important sense of ritual.
Source丨Xinhuanet.
Chinese New Year's Eve dinner as a traditional Chinese culture.
The most important meal.
It will be put on every house.
Sumptuous and auspicious dishes.
And both north and south.
It is most common at the dinner table.
Dumplings, rice cakes, fish, and Siki meatballs.
So. Do you know the story behind them?
I'll tell you about them one by one.
Dumplings.
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Legend has it that more than 1,800 years ago, the winter in Nanyang, Henan Province was wet and cold, and the clothes were insufficient, and the residents had frequent frostbite, and the frostbite of the ears was even more serious. Zhang Zhongjing, a medical saint, invented dumplings, minced leeks, fennel, ginger, mutton, chili peppers, etc., wrapped in dough to shape ears, cooked in a pot, and served with vinegar, rice wine, and minced green onions in the soup, and ate them together with the soup. After eating, people suddenly felt warm all over their bodies, their ears were hot, and chilblains were cured. This food was called "dumpling bait", which later became dumplings. This kind of "sour soup dumplings" with soup and water is very popular in Henan, Shaanxi and other places.
And dumplings topped the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner list, in addition to the customs that have been handed down for many years, they also have a beautiful meaning. First, the dumplings are shaped like ingots, which are a symbol of wealth and good luck, and when people eat dumplings during the Spring Festival, it means that they can attract wealth and good luck. The second is that the dumplings have fillings, which is convenient for people to wrap all kinds of auspicious and festive things into the filling, so as to place people's beautiful expectations for the new year.
Rice cake.
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According to legend, during the Spring and Autumn Period, King Wu Lu adopted Wu Zixu's suggestion of "establishing a city" and built a "big city". After the city wall was built, King Wu put down a feast to celebrate. During the banquet, the ministers indulged in wine and merriment, thinking that with a strong city, they could sit back and relax.
Seeing this scene, Wu Zixu, the minister of state, was deeply worried, and he called his personal entourage and instructed: "After I die, if the country suffers and the people are hungry and have no food, you can dig three feet into the ground under the city of Xiangmen to get food." At that time, the entourage thought that Wu Zixu had drunk too much and ignored it.
But later, Wu Zixu was framed and killed, and the state of Wu was swept away by the Vietnamese army. There was no food in the city, and the entourage remembered Wu Zixu's words, so he led people to Xiangmen to demolish the city and dig the ground, only to find that the city bricks of Xiangmen were not made of clay, but made of glutinous rice ground into flour, just like the square rice cakes we eat now.
Since then, every New Year, every household has used glutinous rice flour to make "city bricks" to worship Wu Zixu. Over time, it became known as rice cakes.
On Chinese New Year's Eve, people pay attention to eating rice cakes, which means "high every year".
Fish.
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Fish is an indispensable dish in the New Year's feast. When eating New Year's dinner, in many places, a whole fish must be eaten, and the whole fish is not eaten to express the sustenance of surplus every year. In some places, when eating fish for Chinese New Year's Eve, it is necessary to leave the head and tail until the next day, expressing the New Year's wish of "having a head and a tail".
The custom of having "fish" every year has existed since ancient times and is still prevalent today. In fact, the reason for eating fish during the New Year is not only this, but also has the meaning of warding off evil spirits.
As early as the Han Dynasty, the buckle on the door painted by the painter had many fish as evil objects. In the Tang Dynasty, the doors, cabinet doors, box doors, etc., were all popular with fish-shaped handles to show the function of warding off evil spirits. So far, the fish on the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner table is more of a fortune and people's good wishes for the new year.
Four joy balls.
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It is rumored that Sixi Pills were created in the Tang Dynasty. One year, when the imperial court opened an examination, students from all over the world flocked to the capital, including Zhang Jiuling. And Zhang Jiuling, who was dressed shabbyly, hit the top list, and the emperor appreciated his intelligence, so he recruited him as a concubine.
At that time, Zhang Jiuling's hometown was flooded, and his parents left their hometown and did not know the news. On the day of the wedding, Zhang Jiuling happened to learn the whereabouts of his parents, so he sent someone to take his parents to the capital. Joyful to joy, Zhang Jiuling asked the chef to cook an auspicious dish to celebrate.
When the dish was served, it was four large balls that had been fried and steamed, and poured with soup. Zhang Jiuling asked about the meaning of the dish, and the clever chef replied: "This dish is 'four rounds'." Yixi, the title of the old man's head list; two happiness, getting married in a family; Sanxi, who was a fast son-in-law of Chenglong; Four joys, family reunion. Zhang Jiuling laughed when he heard this, praised again and again, and said: "'Siyuan' is not as loud and beautiful as 'Sixi', so let's just call it 'Sixi Pill'." ”
In fact, the four happiness balls imply blessing, luck, longevity, and happiness. The good wishes of the ancients will be reflected in the bits and pieces of life, so in some happy banquets, four happy balls are very common. Therefore, it has become an indispensable dish on the Chinese New Year's Eve table in many places.
A Chinese New Year's Eve meal.
Eat is short in the parents.
The food is sweet and sour.
Eating is the happiness and freedom of reunion.
It is the happy taste of reunion after a long absence.
It is also an infinite vision of the future life.
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this day. It is also necessary to paste Spring Festival couplets and New Year's paintings.
In the Spring Festival couplets.
Written all over the hearts of people for the coming year.
Eagerly awaited. In the New Year's paintings.
Jubilant wind and rain, abundant grains.
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this day. Adults and children also have to keep the New Year together.
This is a sleepless night that belongs to the Chinese.
Keeping the year is a station in life.
There is nostalgia for the old days.
There is also a longing and yearning for the New Year.
The night of the Chinese New Year's Eve.
We are guarding the mountains and rivers of our hometown.
It is from generation to generation.
Culture and heritage that are integrated into the bloodline.
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Chinese New Year's Eve is reunion and warmth.
Chinese New Year's Eve is a memory and a blessing.
It is the happiness of the family in the coming year
The vision of Guotai Min'an.
The old years are gone.
Tomorrow will be a new year.
May we rejoice in the years.
Everything goes well!
*丨Xinhuanet, People**, Encyclopedia.
Edited by Kang Xuan Shan.
Editor-in-Chief丨Jiang Lin.
Supervisor丨Zhong Qian.