What are the delicacies of Hunan's Lunar New Year

Hunan is in the south-central part of China, and for students who like to watch variety shows, Hunan TV is the perfect match for the holidays. During the winter vacation, we can almost not change the channel all day, because Hunan TV programs are too suitable for the holidays, and the party of each festival is also particularly wonderful. During the winter vacation, we will first celebrate the Lunar New Year, and there will be special food and customs on Lunar New Year's Eve. What do you eat in Hunan for the Lunar New Year? Hunan has always been famous for its food, so here's a look at what Hunan has to offer for the Lunar New Year.

1, fragrant drink spicy reunion elbow Hunan people are keen to firecrackers, it is said that this is because the Liuyang firecrackers is one of the specialties of Hunan, when the founding ceremony is Liuyang firecrackers. Based on this, Hunan New Year's Eve is simply a city full of loud noise.

A 1-kilogram carp, a 3-kilogram elbow - this is the Hunan region's New Year's Eve necessary dishes, commonly known as "reunion fish" and "reunion elbow. The name "Tuan Nian" (团年), as the name implies, means "reunion for another year, resignation from the old year to welcome the new year". Xiang people are addicted to spiciness, and in folklore, basically every household has a few strings of air-dried red chili peppers hanging in front of the door, so that the host can sprinkle a few chili peppers on each meal to satisfy the taste buds' demand for "spiciness". This is also carried over to the Lunar New Year dinner table. They say that this is a good year to eat and drink spicy food. New Year's Eve dinner, eating is a good luck, that is, to reflect the family's past year's harvest, but also for the next year, so the dishes on the table, the larger, the more plentiful, the more auspicious, in southern Hunan and other traditional customs are more reserved in the region is particularly prevalent.

The "reunion elbow," for example, 3 kilograms the size of the elbow, put on the table is definitely a huge thing, usually can not eat, but it does not matter, end on the table, to take is a good luck - Hunan locals call this! "Pulling the skin to have strength", meaning "the past unhappy are over, to usher in a new year, to be transformed from a new start", so the New Year's Eve dinner table, most families are "mean Therefore, most of the families on the New Year's Eve dinner table are just "meaning" a little bit, moving chopsticks or even purely as a decoration. Then, after New Year's Eve, in the first month of the big elbow slowly eliminated. As far as practice is concerned, this New Year's Eve dish "Lunar New Year's Elbow" in Hunan cuisine combines the cooking methods of "brining" and "steaming", in which the elbow is first soaked in a marinade of soy sauce, salt, spices and other ingredients. First, the elbows are soaked in a brine made of soy sauce, salt, spices and other ingredients, and then, after a few hours, they are taken into a steamer basket and steamed over high heat until they are crispy. The most distinctive feature of this New Year's dish is that, after steaming, it is topped with a large amount of local Hunan red chili peppers that have just been stir-fried in hot oil, and the fiery red color and fresh, spicy flavor can't help but make people salivate.

2, pepper pots full of red hot elbow outside, New Year's Eve will also be sure to eat chicken, meat, fish, etc., and it has to be a big fish and meat. Chicken to the whole stew, by the way, add some ginseng, goji berries, asparagus and other herbs, to choose the rooster, stewed chicken head stand up and put; fish steamed and then sprinkled with red hot pepper on the top, and thirty nights of the fish should not be eaten, to be left until the first day of the month to eat, a symbol of the year, grains, chili pepper, of course, represents the red-hot; some families will also be appearing in the chicken claws, called "Grab money claw", means that next year, wealth and treasure, in addition to the increasingly popular local lamb hot pot, the figure is a lively; as for the cold dishes, fried dishes and snacks, the characteristics of the fact that has not been obvious.

Cold dishes and roasted vegetables, can not be removed or a "spicy" word: take red chili peppers and chopped chili pepper fried bacon, preserved sausage, round, preserved beef, take cilantro and chili pepper mixed with preserved fish meat, pig's ear, plus a few kinds of vegetables - there must be greens, the meaning of the whole family! New Year's peace and prosperity. This full put together a table, Hunan people's New Year's Eve dinner is almost ready.

3, the staple food rice and sweet wine in addition, this side of the same did not eat dumplings customary habits, take rice as the staple food, and drink is home to take rice and wine brewed sweet wine. No dish is spicy, no spicy, spicy and spicy, Hunan people addicted to eat the New Year's Eve dinner. It usually starts at seven or eight o'clock in the evening and doesn't end until eleven or twelve o'clock, and locals believe that the longer the New Year's Eve dinner lasts, the better it is.

Hunan people are keen to set off firecrackers, which is said to be because Liuyang firecrackers are one of Hunan's specialties and were set off at the founding ceremony. Based on this, Hunan New Year's Eve is simply a city full of loud, smoke filled. New Year's Eve night, they have to firecrackers three times: once before eating New Year's Eve dinner, tell people to eat New Year's Eve dinner; once again in the New Year's bells ringing, meant to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new; the other is the Spring Festival morning open the door to put, said ushered in a new and wonderful year. The size of the firecrackers, burning time with the family set, but burning can not be interrupted, so that will be auspicious.

4, New Year's Day to eat rice cakes until the time of the New Year, Hunan people's first meal is basically "rice cakes" and "sesame tea": rice cakes are families to play out of their own, the size of a brick, until it is time to eat will be cut into pieces, and then put into a frying pan, fry both sides of brown. When it's time to eat, it's cut into pieces and put into a frying pan, browned on both sides, and then boiled with caramelized sugar and water, which makes it very soft and sweet; and sesame tea is a sesame drink with water. These two snacks **** the same point, is a similar meaning - rice cake, harmonic for "year high", sesame seeds also have "section high meaning, so are good luck, and the sweet taste also symbolizes the new year sweet.