What are the customs of Chinese New Year in Shanghai?

The customs of Chinese New Year in Shanghai are:

1, Laba porridge

Shanghainese drink Laba porridge on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month! A bowl of steaming Laba porridge warms the heart and stomach.

The most authentic Laba porridge is nominally eight kinds of raw materials, but it is not rigid, ranging from four or five to more than a dozen. Laba porridge in some places is made of glutinous rice, brown sugar, 18 kinds of dried fruits and beans, which is called refined Laba porridge.

2. bacon

As soon as the twelfth lunar month arrived, grandma in Shanghai began to prepare bacon. I still remember when I was a child, every household in the alley would hang under the eaves. New Year's Eve and Spring Festival reunion dinner, bacon will be sliced and cooked together in a casserole, which is delicious.

3. Babao rice

Eight-treasure rice, which means reunion, is a necessary new year's goods for Shanghainese. Good eight-treasure rice, just bean paste, fried for two hours, it will taste particularly delicate. Every year during the Spring Festival, the time-honored eight-treasure rice will be sold out quickly.

4.naan cake

In the past, Shanghainese used to eat steamed cakes during the Spring Festival. When I was a child, there was a special nursery rhyme: "The cake is nothing but a gold ingot, and my career is smooth and good." I will be busy counting money next year. Scones should be baked with the wind, and I hope that the weather will be good and the grain will be plentiful at the beginning of the year. " Although few people go to eat specially now, every time they are late, they always bring back childhood memories.

5, red sausage

Although forest sausage can be seen everywhere in Shanghai, this dish is really essential for the New Year. Whether cooked in a casserole or as a dessert, it is a dazzling omnipotence on the dining table.

6, sugar soup tea

In the twelfth lunar month, Shanghainese also have a unique custom: drinking "sugar soup tea" in the morning! That is, some people have sweet soup, such as candied dates, lotus seeds and rock sugar. , both nourishing and warm.

7. Sacrifice to the Kitchen God

The 24th of the twelfth lunar month, that is, the 24th of December, is the day when the Kitchen God plays a role in the sky. Therefore, on the evening of 23rd, every household should "send a stove" and "offer a stove" to celebrate the New Year.

On this day, the traditional food in Shanghai is zongzi sugar, maltose and glutinous rice dumplings, and the sweet and sticky "sugar-coated cannonball" makes the kitchen god only say good things. Cigarettes filled the room, and the offerings were dazzling, and the atmosphere of the New Year suddenly came to my face.