The fourteenth day of the first lunar month is the day before the Lantern Festival, on this day there are many traditional activities among the people, in order to welcome the arrival of the Lantern Festival, people will hang up the lanterns in advance, so the fourteenth day of the first lunar month is also called "trial lanterns". There are many folk traditions about the fourteenth day of the first month, this day is regarded as the day of the "God of Wealth", and there are places where there is a custom of worshiping the "Linshui Niangniang", so the fourteenth day of the first month is an auspicious day, on this day to remember: "eat 3 things, do 3 things, avoid 3 things", the new year is blessed to fortune.
Folk tradition, every auspicious day, people will eat chicken to celebrate, chicken has the meaning of "auspicious", hoping that the new year will be "auspicious", "auspicious".
Recommended method: Braised chicken nuggets.
1. Prepare a chicken, handle it clean, and chop it into chicken pieces.
2. Peel and cut the potatoes into cubes, and slice the green onion and ginger.
3. Pour water into the pot and bring to a boil, add the chicken pieces and blanch until the color turns white.
4. Pour oil into another pot, add green onions, ginger, Sichuan pepper, bay leaves, etc. and stir-fry until fragrant, add chicken pieces and stir-fry over high heat until the surface turns yellow.
5. Add light soy sauce, dark soy sauce and sugar and stir-fry evenly, add an appropriate amount of water to cover the chicken pieces, bring to a boil over high heat, and simmer for 20 minutes.
6. Add the potato cubes, then simmer for 10 minutes until the potatoes are soft and rotten, slightly dry the soup, add an appropriate amount of salt and mix well, and then you can get out of the pot.
On the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, people are accustomed to eating food related to "wealth", dumplings look like ingots, and have the meaning of treasure, so this day is suitable for eating dumplings.
Recommended method: Beef onion and carrot dumplings
Add 140 grams of water to the flour, mix into a smooth and hard dough, and set aside to let it rest for half an hour.
2. Clean the carrots, chop them into chopped carrots, and chop the onion.
3. Put the quasi-beef into a meat grinder and grind it into a meat filling, add 1 egg, 1 spoon of five-spice powder, 1 spoon of Sichuan pepper powder, an appropriate amount of chopped green onions, burn some hot oil and pour it on it, and fry the green onions and peppercorns to make them fragrant.
4. Add 2 tablespoons of light soy sauce, 1 tablespoon of salt, appropriate amount of chicken juice, half a tablespoon of sugar, and stir with chopsticks in one direction.
5. Divide the dough into small pieces, sprinkle more dry powder on it, press it flat with your hands, roll it out with a rolling pin into a thick dumpling skin in the middle and thin on both sides, put the meat filling on it, pinch the edges tightly, and wrap all the skin and filling.
7. After the water boils, boil the dumplings in the pot, point water twice in the middle, and cook until the dumplings float up.
Pig's hand has the meaning of fortune and treasure, in the fourteenth day of the first month, people have the custom of eating pig's hand or chicken feet, hoping that the new year's wealth will roll in, and everything will be prosperous.
Recommended method: pork knuckle soybeans
1. Burn the pork knuckle to remove the hair on the surface and chop it into pieces. Soak the soybeans in water overnight.
2. Pour water into the pot and bring to a boil, add the pig's trotters and blanch it.
3. Pour oil into another pot, add green onion and ginger and stir-fry until fragrant, add pig's trotters and stir-fry, pour in light soy sauce, rock sugar, dark soy sauce, add an appropriate amount of water, add soybeans, and transfer to a pressure cooker to simmer for 40 minutes.
First, try the lantern
In the folk, the Lantern Festival is very grand, every household puts up lanterns, hangs lanterns, and holds various lantern festivals, lantern exhibitions, lantern riddles and other activities. In order to have a good effect on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, people generally try the lanterns on the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, arrange all the lamps in advance, and light them up in advance.
Second, the God of Wealth
The fourteenth day of the first lunar month is the day of the god of wealth, and legend has it that before going to bed at night, the lamp at home should be lit to welcome the arrival of the god of wealth. In many places, people will choose to worship the God of Wealth, place a statue or portrait of the God of Wealth at home, burn incense, light candles, burn paper money, place offerings, etc., and pray for the prosperity of the new year.
3. Traveling to all diseases
Traveling to all diseases is a more popular activity before and after the Lantern Festival, from the fourteenth day of the first month to the sixteenth day of the first month, the time is different in different regions, the fourteenth day of the first month is on the eve of the Lantern Festival, people will go outside at night, travel together, or climb high and look far, or walk in the fields, and the northern region will go to the ice to take a walk, hoping to get rid of all diseases, and be healthy and safe in the new year.
1. Do not break the ground: Although the fourteenth day of the first month is an auspicious day, but on the day of the God of Wealth, try not to break the ground, the folk soil is related to wealth, and the ground is broken on the day of the Wealth, which will affect the fortune of the new year.
2. Don't clean: The old tradition, don't clean up on this day, the God of Wealth will go to the house to inspect on this day, and if you clean it, you will sweep away the fortune.
3. Don't cut your hair and shave your head: It is not suitable to shave your head in the traditional New Year, especially on the 14th day of the first month.