What are the New Year's Eve customs in Ningbo?

Ningbo New Year's Eve customs:

1, Ningbo people can not do without rice cakes. The rice cake has a good meaning of "year high", in the past to the New Year's season, the old Ningbo almost every family to do their own rice cake, rice cake is usually loaded with strips and two kinds of flower color. Some people would cook rice cake soup with vegetables and distribute it from house to house, putting two pieces of boiled pork on each bowl of rice cake soup.

2, old-fashioned Ningbo people eat New Year's Eve dinner is very conscientious. The dishes on the New Year's Eve dinner generally can not be less than twelve kinds, symbolizing the twelve months of the year, peace and prosperity. The average person's home to prepare a "warm pot", that is, hot pot, weekdays do not use, only in the New Year's Eve end out. Eat "warm pot" is also for a "good luck", warm pot steaming, "reunion, red hot, warm and warm" meaning.

3, warming pot is the old Ningbo New Year's Eve dinner, "the main dish", the pot is usually put "three fresh", that is, meatballs, egg dumplings and smoked fish. At that time, the egg dumplings were shaped like Yuanbao, with the meaning of "good luck and prosperity in the coming year". Nowadays, many old Ningbo families still continue the tradition of eating "warm pots" on New Year's Day.

4, in addition to rice cakes and "warm pot", the old Ningbo New Year's Eve dinner table there is a reservation program, that is replica bags from china frozen meat. This dish is very careful to do when the fire, is to use the yellowtail boiled, melted in the pork, so that the pork becomes crystal clear. What's more, this dish is not to be eaten freshly cooked, but to be frozen and then eaten, "frozen" is one of the highlights of this dish.

5, in addition to eating, the old Ningbo New Year's Eve there are many rules, especially on the first day of the first month of the year, "do not draw water, do not clean, do not beg for fire, do not move the knife and cut, do not visit the door, do not hospitality, do not wash, do not scold the children, do not speak unlucky words. Housewives rest all day, the family sleeps before the dusk, do not light the lamps and lanterns, put the door after the cannon, may not go out", that summer can be free of pests, commonly known as "peace night".