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Hunan Spring Festival custom composition

Hunan people should start with the New Year's Eve dinner. They will definitely eat chicken, meat and fish on New Year's Eve, and it must be big fish and big meat. Stew the whole chicken, choose the rooster, and put the head of the chicken on it after stewing; Sprinkle red pepper on the steamed fish. Don't finish the fish for 30 nights until the first day of the month. This symbolizes that there is enough food every year, and pepper certainly represents prosperity. After eating some snacks in the morning of the first day of junior high school, you should prepare rice wine cooked the day before, also called sweet wine. The materials of sweet wine are glutinous rice, gauze and medicated wine specially brought from Hunan, which is similar to all our yeasts for fermentation.

Every household has to have a hearty New Year's Eve dinner.

Everyone knows that Jiangxi people are not afraid of spicy food, Sichuan people are not afraid of spicy food, and Hunan people are not afraid of spicy food. The purpose of playing word games is to describe Hunan people's habit of eating spicy food. Hunan cuisine loves to put peppers, which can be said to be the spiritual totem of Huxiang culture. There are also various preparation methods. Spicy words are the first, and color, fragrance and taste are also taken into account, so that diners are sweating after eating, and their lips and teeth are fragrant and have a long aftertaste! The famous dishes in Hunan cuisine are all ordinary things, such as fried chicken with ginger, fish head with chopped pepper in Xiangtan, braised pork in Mao style and so on. They are all economical and affordable, and the price and taste are approachable, so they are widely sought after by the public diners.

A dish that every household basically cooks: dried bacon.

Hunan has a tradition of eating bacon during the Spring Festival, but unlike Sichuan people who eat steamed bacon, Hunan people like to fry bacon with fragrant dried bean curd or dried bean curd, which is delicious and chewy. Sometimes winter bamboo shoots will be fried with bacon, so that there will be a fresh feeling besides salty fragrance.

Hunan people not only pay New Year greetings, watch dragon lanterns, set off firecrackers, but also sing ancient paintings and operas. ...