What are the traditional foods of the Manchu people at New Year's Eve?

The Manchu eight dishes and eight bowls, dating back to 1619. After the great victory in the battle of Salt Lake, in the city of Jinluan Hall set up eight pergola, the spoils of war is also divided into eight. Happy to let each flag of the old Hanking a dish out of a soup, coincidentally, the eight banners of the female Jian dedication of the dish is exactly four cool, four hot, four meat and four vegetarian. The old Han Wang was happy, implying that the river and mountain four flat and stable. From then on whether it is the old Han Wang's celebration of the feast, or folk feasts, all have to eat Manchu eight dishes and eight bowls.

"Eight dishes" is usually four cool and four hot, "eight bowls" is usually four meat and four vegetarian. Concentrate on steak, stew, sauce, roast, stew, stir-fry, steam, simmer and other cooking techniques. Dishes include the Northeast flavor of braised pork, sauerkraut blanch white meat blood sausage, chicken stewed mushrooms, jelly, vegetarian soup, harvest, pancakes rolled onions, etc., and all kinds of Manchu sticky dough cakes and other staples are also very distinctive.

Liaoning province Xinbin Manchu Autonomous County Hetualla old city after the gold hotel manager Jiang Xu: corn cakes, Su Zi Ye, pot stickers, Quashu cake have Manchu characteristics. (Reporter: What are the ingredients for this one?) It is made of groundnut flour, crassula leaves, and in the center is watercress filling wrapped with meat. And then the suzi leaf is the Manchu sticky rice. It is sticky rice stuffed with suzi leaves and small beans. (Reporter: Why is it called sticky rat?) You see the shape of the package out like a rat, so the Manchu called it sticky rat.