Tomorrow is the Chinese New Year's Eve, I believe everyone is ready to stay up late with their families to keep up the New Year, right? We often talk about the New Year, the most representative is the New Year's Eve with the family reunion on Chinese New Year's Eve. And the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, which symbolizes peace and peace and auspicious reunion on the 30th night, should be regarded as the soul of the Lunar New Year in the hearts of Chinese.
According to the old tradition, the dishes of the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner must be beautiful and auspicious, so this Chinese New Year's Eve dinner on Chinese New Year's Eve still has several dishes that are best not on the table, not because the dishes are not delicious and not nutritious. Some of these dishes are not only nutritious, but also delicious and beautiful, and the only reason why these dishes are not allowed on the table during the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is that the meaning is not good.
During the Chinese New Year, the common people have such a mentality, and they have to get a good fortune in everything, and the purpose is to be auspicious. Which dishes are not recommended for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, let's take it slowly.
The first is lotus root, some people may say why lotus root can't go to the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner? It is crispy, sweet, refreshing, nutritious, almost a classic cold dish that must be eaten at every banquet, and there are too many greasy foods to eat during the Spring Festival, and a plate of cold lotus root slices is both nutritious and appetizing. In fact, the reason why it is recommended that lotus root not go to the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is because of the holes in the lotus root, and Chinese New Year's Eve is a day to welcome spring and receive blessings, except for the old and the new.
Because of its unique characteristics, the dense holes of lotus root are believed to leak wealth and happiness, and eating lotus root on the day of receiving blessings and gathering wealth on Chinese New Year's Eve will break wealth and leak happiness, which is unlucky. But if you particularly like to eat lotus root, it is not that you can't eat Chinese New Year's Eve, but you need to change the method, such as making "coupling" or "lotus root clip", and find a way to plug or remove those holes.
The second ingredient that cannot be eaten on Chinese New Year's Eve is "squid". Squid is a very delicious and nutritious seafood. But the squid meat will be rolled into a cylinder after being fried, which looks very much like a rolled up cover roll, and there is a saying of "fried squid" in the workplace, which means that it means to be fired or dismissed by the work unit. Chinese New Year's Eve dinner to engage in a "fried squid", for people who work hard in the workplace, won't they be embarrassed?
The third ingredient "bitter gourd", although bitter gourd can clear away heat and fire, and is rich in nutrients. But it tastes bitter, the main focus of the Chinese New Year's Eve meal is the delicious flavor, sweet and delicious, happiness is permanent, in this old and new turn Chinese New Year's Eve dinner on the whole plate of bitter melon, is this a blessing everyone has a year of endless suffering, so for the New Year's picture a good omen, all bitter ingredients including bitter melon should not be on the table of the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.
The fourth kind of tofu, tofu is a common home-cooked dish on the table of ordinary people, especially suitable for the elderly, especially the elderly with bad teeth, not only easy to chew, but also easy to digest and rich in nutrition. However, the folk also often call the banquet on white affairs "tofu soup", and the folk also often refer to the act of thin men rubbing women's oil as "eating tofu", so on the prosperous day of Chinese New Year's Eve, people regard tofu as an unlucky food and refuse to serve it is understandable.
All in all, the Chinese New Year's Eve meal is the last meal of the year, people hope to eat a good year in the future through this meal, some dish names or ingredients themselves are not too good to refuse them outside the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, this is just an auspicious, a good luck, if you have to be more serious about right and wrong, there is really no reason to speak of, but they all hope that the future life is getting better and better, friends, what other dishes are not recommended for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner?