What are the taboos of New Year's Eve?

The New Year's Eve dinner is auspicious and rich. Therefore, there are some taboos about the meals you usually eat. Some dishes can't be served, whether poor or rich. ?

Let's share the taboos of Henan New Year's Eve, and what dishes can't be served. Give three examples:

The first one that can't be served: dog meat

Dog meat is not served, which has three meanings:

Dogs are friends and partners of human beings. Dogs are the earliest domesticated animals. Before they were domesticated, they were with wolves. The wolf is very fierce, which makes it have to tear you to pieces and swallow you, because the wolf eats meat but doesn't chew it. However, wolves are valued by human beings because of their excellent qualities of loyalty and trustworthiness. Therefore, they are domesticated and used as unswerving friends.

Up to now, people keep dogs, whether they are guarding homes, looking after sheep's property or being pets, all for their loyalty. There is no need to worry about being betrayed by dogs, and even think that it is more reliable than people. Therefore, you can't eat your partner's meat. Although there is a custom of eating dog meat since ancient times, this meal is not edible.

● There is a tendency of moral kidnapping. In our traditional culture, a dog is a dog. Take care of the house as a tool, no matter how well it gets along with its owner, it will not be treated as a family member. This is a dividing line, otherwise there is no distinction between human beings and animals, which is a taboo in traditional culture.

However, Empress Dowager Cixi got off to a good start, so the arrogant old lady did something to worship foreign things, kept a dog as a pet, and cultivated a pet breed called Jingba and Beijing Eight two dog. This is nothing, the poor can't afford it, and the common people don't have that habit. Raising a dog like a son and a father makes people laugh their heads off. No one would do that.

Until a few years ago, the painting style suddenly changed and dogs became the first pets. Dog owners first show that they have money and leisure, then fill the spiritual gap and finally become dependent on each other. It doesn't matter how tall a dog is, but it can't be higher than humans. For example, if you love dogs as much as your life, it is better for dogs than for your family. People who spend thousands of dollars on dogs don't care about children who can't afford to go to school. Therefore, not only can dog meat not be served on the table during the New Year, but it is also absolutely inedible at ordinary times.

● Dogs can't change and eat shit. Since ancient times, isn't dog meat on the table? , mainly dogs eat shit, made a big taboo. No matter how delicious dog meat is and how much you like it at ordinary times, it's really hard to be elegant. Anyway, it won't be served in the New Year.

The second one you can't go to: the game.

This is not a dish, but a series of all game, including wild fish, chickens and ducks. There are three main reasons why we don't eat game during the Spring Festival:

● Eat your own food in the New Year and show your labor achievements. The reason why it is said that 2008 is the most important festival in a year is because of the traditional culture, in which the days are in units of years, in cycles of years, and in cycles. Humans are also good at summarizing animals. After a period, we should sum up how things are done, lessons and experiences, so as to do better in the coming year. This is the meaning of this festival. Therefore, this day enjoys the fruits of a year's labor. If you still want to eat game, your work is not so good. You can't eat your own animal meat during the Chinese New Year, but you have to fight wild, saying that you are ashamed to beat boys.

● Not killing in the New Year reflects the broad mind of human beings. What is the core theory in our traditional culture? World harmony? It is shameful to plunder and seize wealth that does not belong to you. Especially the Chinese New Year, it is the time to show this world view. As the old saying goes, ants also celebrate the New Year, and killing is forbidden during the New Year. Even if you kill chickens and ducks, you should pray to them before you go under the knife: you are a dish among the dead. Go early today and come early tomorrow. In order to seek psychological peace. Wild animals, including snakes and mice, can't live for a year, so we should give them a few days of peace during the Chinese New Year and don't hurt them.

If you push too hard, wild animals will retaliate. As the old saying goes, rabbits bite when they are in a hurry. When dealing with wild animals, you can fight them for food, or you can eat meat when you die to protect crops, lives and property in the field. If people and animals are harmless, you can't bully the weak and do things that hurt the world. For example, pheasants and turtledoves flying in the sky, sturgeons and whitebait swimming in the water, pandas and tigers running on the ground are all neighbors of the earth, and nothing can hinder human beings. We live in peace with each other, and there is no need to hurt our lives. If you push it hard, it will really bring revenge to mankind.

The third one won't serve: poor people's dishes.

The so-called poor people's dishes also have three meanings:

In ancient times, there was nothing delicious in the food called "full stomach", so we filled our stomachs with something that was not delicious.

● Modern times are called the generation of melons and vegetables. In difficult times, vegetables, melons and wild vegetables are used as staple foods to fill the stomach.

Nowadays it is called unhealthy food.

No matter how bad the Chinese New Year meal is, vegetarian dishes will not be served unless there is really no way out. All you eat is chicken, duck and fish. Those not in the list include:

● Vegetables. There are not many vegetables in Xinyang in winter, only curly flower heads, wujinbai and spinach, followed by Chinese cabbage and radish in winter. Traditional New Year's Eve can only be used as an ornament for meat dishes, such as pork stewed radish, vermicelli and Chinese cabbage, and vegetables can never be served alone. Otherwise, people will gossip: I can't afford to buy meat for the New Year. It shows that this year's labor is not so good.

● Tofu. Tofu plays an extremely important role in daily life. As the old saying goes, tofu is the meat of the poor. In the poor days, tofu was regarded as meat. Now there is a continuation. The New Year is called the Year of Tofu, and the New Year meal only needs tofu instead of meat. Because in the evening, I will send the old stove master to heaven and report his work and life in the past year to the Jade Emperor. With this tofu rice, the old stove owner will have a statement in his report, and our family will also be thrifty. It can't be like this after the new year. New Year's Day is for our ancestors. We must provide the most delicious and sumptuous meals, so that our ancestors will not regret it, and we can really see that our descendants are doing well. Therefore, tofu is used to coax the old stove, but the ancestors can't.

● Pickled vegetables. Pickles are typical poor people's dishes, and only pickles are left in the end. If there are no more pickles, it is really nothing. If you don't starve, you must go out. However, in ancient times, pickles were a necessary dish for families, just like salt now, and they were indispensable for a moment. Until now, pickles still play an important role in Xinyang people's lives. No matter where you are, when you see pickles on the table, your first impression is that this family will live and smell like home. It can also be said that pickles represent the taste of home and the smell of fireworks at home.