What do you eat on New Year's Eve in the south? Symbolize what?

Night is falling slowly. A burst of firecrackers reminds people like fried beans that the reunion dinner on New Year's Eve in the Year of the Loong is about to begin! The dining table is full of chicken, duck and fish, a big table of delicious dishes!

20 12 the Year of the Loong New Year's Eve dinner was served-crispy ribs, boiled diced chicken, lemon duck, fried grass carp, marinated fish balls and mushrooms, with steaming hot pot in the middle.

New Year's Eve is a unique custom in the south. It is a kind of family reunion dinner, also known as "reunion dinner" or "family reunion", which means that after dinner, we bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year, so it is also called "dividing the year". The dishes of the New Year's Eve dinner are quite particular: three kinds of animals should be prepared; There must be three birds; The food is served three times, because "three" sounds like "promotion" and "prosperity", which means "promotion" and "making a fortune".

Fish and hot pot are essential for New Year's Eve.

Everything is delicious on New Year's Eve, but I like braised mutton best-mutton is black and red in sauce, and the sheepskin oil is bright, which makes it feel particularly chewy in my mouth. There is also a strong maotai fragrance. I don't know how to cook such delicious braised mutton. Who can tell me the cooking secret of this dish?

Boiled chicken is the most distinctive New Year's Eve in Guangdong and Guangxi. "Chicken" and "accumulation" both mean "accumulation of wealth". Boil boiled chicken in slightly boiling water for 30 to 40 minutes, and the chicken body often rolls in hot soup to ensure that the chicken body is evenly heated.

After cooking, cut it while it is hot, and then put it together according to the shape of the chicken.

When eating, dip sesame oil and soy sauce into your mouth and chew it. Wow! Full of lingering fragrance, sweet and smooth.

Fish is a must-have dish for this New Year's Eve dinner. It is usually cooked by braising, boiling or frying to show "prosperity" and "more than a year" in the coming year.

I like fried sweet and sour fish very much. Sour and sweet, especially appetizing. Every time I eat this dish, I always eat a lot and can eat a lot of meals.

The method of sweet and sour fish is very simple: first saute garlic in hot oil, then add sour and vinegar, sugar and water starch in turn to make sauce, boil the sauce, then add fried fish, onion ginger and tomato into the sauce, drop a few drops of yellow wine, cover the pot and stew the fish for a few minutes, and a delicious sweet and sour fish is finished.

On the dinner table of the New Year's Eve, hot pot is a must, which indicates that the coming year will be "prosperous" and the rice will be cooked twice as much as usual. When eating New Year's Eve, everyone should leave a little rice in the bowl, which means that the New Year is "more than every year".

At present, China's living standard is relatively high, so even for the New Year's Eve, there are no more special dishes than usual. However, the same dishes have different meanings in the New Year's Eve dinner. When the whole family get together for a happy New Year's Eve dinner, it symbolizes "family reunion" and "happiness and peace".

Boiling hot soup, steaming steam, bright electric lights and beaming smiles from my family all made me feel the warmth of home and the happiness cared for by my family. It's nice to spend the New Year at home!

I finally understand why billions of people from China go to Spring Festival travel rush every Spring Festival. We China people are not afraid of trekking in Qian Shan, queuing up all night to buy tickets, carrying heavy luggage on our shoulders, just for a short and precious "family reunion", just to see the long-lost smiling faces of our families and enjoy the warmth of home.

New Year's Eve is the family's expectation for the wanderer for a whole year, and it is the return of the wanderer for a whole year. During the Chinese New Year, home is New Year's Eve, and New Year's Eve is home. This is the inner spiritual motivation for China people to go home for the New Year. This spiritual motivation has been circulating for 3,000 years, and it will be passed down from generation to generation with the prosperity of the Chinese nation.