What is the traditional and customary food necessary for New Year's Eve?

In Jiangsu and even neighboring provinces, people have the custom of eating cress every Spring Festival, especially in Zhenjiang, our town. People should not only eat Oenanthes at home, but also launch large and small restaurants. Crespo is also known as Passepartout.

This? Passepartout? How many good wishes people have placed.

According to legend, as early as the Shang Dynasty, ancestors ate Oenanthe javanica, and Shang chef Yi Yin listed Oenanthe javanica as one of the most delicious foods in the world. As for the Zhou Dynasty, it was even more grand. People not only eat cress, but also list it as a sacrifice. ? Flooding, dredging its Qin. ? This is the Book of Songs? Truffles? Dishui poetry. This? Qin? It is cress, which depicts the labor scene of harvesting cress from one side.

Oenanthe javanica belongs to the Eight Immortals in water. These eight immortals refer to eight kinds of aquatic vegetables: Oenanthe javanica, Zizania latifolia, lotus root, Euryale ferox, arrowhead, water chestnut, water shield and water chestnut. There are different opinions about the Eight Immortals in Water, but Oenanthe javanica is always one of them. It can be seen that people admire it.

As the old saying goes, when it comes to the twelfth lunar month, loess is three points more expensive. At this time, the price of cress soared. I remember that one year, Oenanthe javanica was planted less, which was a small year. At that time, the price of Oenanthe javanica was six to eight yuan per catty, which was higher than that of pork and beef at that time. No matter how expensive the price of cress is, every household still wants to buy it.

Harvesting cress is hard work. In the cold winter, there is a thin layer of ice on the water. Farmers wear one-piece rubber clothes and go down to waist-deep water, uproot Oenanthe javanica, and then shake it vigorously to clean up the silt at the roots.

The cress has been picked back, so we need to make it look brand-new. Just landed watercress, the roots still have sludge, and there are many bearded and messy roots, which should be cleaned up. After cleaning up, you need to rinse it with clean water in the end, so that you can go to the market refreshed and radiant.

Collect cress year after year and eat cress year after year. I hope this auspicious cress can bring good luck to all good people in the world.