Chinese New Year's Eve rice, why eat fish?

Among the dishes Chinese New Year's Eve, the most impressive is "fish".

The fish was served, and the adults said with a smile: "I have more than one year, eat the fish, and next year there will be a good harvest." When the fish brought up, the head of the fish is facing grandma, because grandma is the elder in the family and is the most venerable. At this time, the father will first move the chopsticks and give the tender and fresh fish meat on the belly to the grandmother, and then the fish eyes will be clamped to the youngest child in the family, I, saying that the child eats fish eyes and his eyes are bright. Then, everyone started to use chopsticks to officially eat fish. But halfway through each meal, the adults began to teach: "You can't turn over when you eat fish!" After eating, remove the middle spine and eat the fish below. Eating fish and turning fish, including the meaning of "the boat capsized", is unlucky." Although there is a lot of attention to eating fish, the deliciousness of fish, the blessing of table manners, and the blessing of cultivation are even more flavorful.

Every New Year, there are always different fish prepared at home, some steamed, some fried, and some dried and retained. Different fish have nutritional benefits and different practices.

1. Crucian carp is beneficial to qi and spleen, water and swelling, clearing heat and detoxification, and channeling milk. Crucian carp oil is beneficial to cardiovascular function, reduces blood viscosity and promotes blood circulation.
2. With fish, it has the functions of warming the stomach, replenishing deficiency, skin, dispelling wind, killing insects, and replenishing the five internal organs, and can be used as an adjuvant treatment for prolonged hepatitis and chronic hepatitis.
3. Carp, carp taste sweet, sex flat, has the effect of strengthening the spleen and appetizing, diuresis and swelling, cough and asthma, tranquilizing the fetus, clearing heat and detoxification. In addition, eating carp with a particularly good effect on the eyes of the eye.
4. Sea bass is rich in protein, vitamin A, B vitamins, calcium, magnesium, zinc, selenium and other nutrients; It has the effect of tonifying liver and kidney, benefiting the spleen and stomach, dissolving phlegm and relieving cough, and has a good tonic effect on people with liver and kidney deficiency.

When crucian carp is celebrated in the New Year, it is often dried and retained, and dried crucian carp is also a method. The general steps are as follows:

1. First, prepare the fresh crucian carp and set aside.
2. Then clean up the crucian carp, mainly the internal organs of the crucian carp, and the scales do not need to be cleaned.
3. Next, rinse the cleaned crucian carp and put it in a pot for use.
4. Then put the cleaned crucian carp on a cool mat and dry it in the sun, and dry the surface moisture of the crucian carp.
5. Finally, touch it with your hand and wait until the surface of the crucian carp does not stick to your hands.

When taking fish during the New Year, it is often fried and retained, and when it is time to eat, it is fried in oil to crispy and tender inside, delicious taste, and good for food and wine. Here are the steps to fry the fish for retention:

1. Treat the fish cleanly, cut into long segments, add salt, cooking wine, ginger slices, peppercorns, mix well by hand and marinate for 1 hour, you can add a spoonful of high-grade liquor, the fishy effect is better.
2. Take the fish to dry the surface moisture and put it in dry flour and coat it with a thin layer of dry powder. Boil the oil, fry the fish over low heat for a while, fry until golden brown, and serve.

Carp is a type of Chinese New Year's Eve rice, usually braised carp, the general steps are as follows:

1. The carp is slaughtered and processed, a knife is marked on both sides of the fish, and salted for 20 minutes.
2. Heat a wok, add a large amount of cooking oil, add carp to fry and cut off, and fish out the control oil.
3. Add a little base oil to another pot, add green onion, ginger and garlic and stir-fry until fragrant, add soy sauce and oyster sauce and stir-fry until fragrant.
4. Then add an appropriate amount of water to boil, add carp, add sugar, salt to taste, a little old soy sauce to color.
5. Simmer over low heat for 30 minutes, then reduce the juice over high heat until thick, sprinkle with coriander segments, and then come out of the pan.

Sea bass is also common in Chinese New Year's Eve rice, usually steamed sea bass, and the general steps are as follows:

1. Ingredients, half of the ginger and shallot, finely sliced and soaked in water for later use (for garnish).
2. Marinate the sea bass with a knife and marinate with half a tablespoon of steamed fish soy sauce, chives, shredded ginger, salt and pepper for five minutes.
3. Spread the pickled green onion and ginger underneath.
4. The fish stands up, sprinkles some chives and ginger shredded on the body, drizzles half a tablespoon of lard, boils the pot of water, steames for four minutes, drains the water in the steamed fish plate, puts three tablespoons of rice wine and continues to steam for three minutes.
5. Do not lift the lid and simmer for five minutes.
6. The fish is taken out, the green onion and ginger are thrown away, and the soup is poured on the fish
7. Heat the oil and pour it over the fish.
8. Finally, decorate, stuff the mouth with chili peppers, and sprinkle the body with soaked green onions and ginger.

Eating fish in the New Year is Chinese culture, but also a symbol of cultural continuity, a sense of ritual. It is the expectation of every family to have more wealth and more than every year. People not only eat fish, but also paste paper cuts and New Year paintings of carp jumping over the dragon gate, and eat fish in the New Year, not only for the sake of more than every year, but also for the hidden meaning of "suppressing evil". The fish painted on the door knock plays an important role in the devil, the fish pattern appears on the gate and cabinet, in order to drive away ghosts, 2022 is the year of the pandemic, in the Chinese New Year's Eve night, use the fish of traditional culture to drive away the haze and usher in a peaceful 2023!