It's about to be January 1, New Year's Day, is the beginning of the new year, but also the traditional festival of our Chinese nation, New Year's Day is also a day of reunion, every family will gather together at this time to celebrate the arrival of the New Year.
Chinese like to integrate food into traditional culture, and there are many traditional Xi customs in food on New Year's Day, such as what the old people often say: "5 things are not on the table, the Year of the Dragon is empty".
So what are these five foods, and how do you eat them? Let's take a look.
1. Eggs: Fortune and treasure
The oval-shaped egg symbolizes completeness and completeness, and on the New Year's Day table, the egg is often indispensable as a traditional dish, and the egg is a symbol of auspiciousness and beauty, implying wealth and treasure, and a happy life.
People often eat eggs at the dinner party on New Year's Day, children eat eggs to imply academic success, to be able to get 100 points, adults eat eggs, meaning financial prosperity, career success.
There are many ways to make eggs, you can boil them directly, then cut them into slices, and eat them with chili juice, or put the eggs in a pot and steam them to make steamed eggs, which are suitable for the elderly and children.
2. Fish: more than every year
Chinese love to eat fish, which symbolizes abundance and abundance in traditional Chinese culture, such as big fish and big meat is a word to describe the abundance of life.
As the old saying goes: "The house of good will have afterglow, and the house of evil will have aftermath", and fish has the homonym of "surplus every year", which means that there is excess wealth and food every year, describing a rich life.
On New Year's Day, people will definitely have fish on the table, eating fish represents the hope that the family will have a rich source of wealth, a happy life, and more than enough wealth in the new year.
3. Chicken: auspicious
The word "chicken" in chicken is homophonic with the auspicious word "auspicious", and people believe that eating chicken means auspicious wishes, so during the New Year's holidays, chicken is often indispensable on the table.
Chicken is a high-protein, low-fat nutritious food, both men and women are suitable for eating, a bowl of steaming chicken soup in the cold winter, people feel warm, the chill dissipated.
In addition to the stewed soup, it can also be made into white-cut chicken, which adopts the method of "three in and three out", and when you eat it, it is delicious and juicy with dipping sauce, which makes people have an endless aftertaste.
4. Tofu: Blessing and health
Tofu and "Dufu" is a homonym, on the table on New Year's Day, tofu is also an indispensable delicious dish, tofu is nutritious, delicate taste, deeply loved by people.
Eating tofu on New Year's Day symbolizes good fortune and health, wealth and auspiciousness, and it seems to be very ordinary tofu, but it is very unusual in the eyes of people.
There are many ways to make tofu, stuffed tofu, braised tofu, and fish head tofu soup are all loved by everyone.
5. Rice cakes: step by step
The word "cake" is homophonic with the word "high", which means that the rice cake is a traditional delicacy made of glutinous rice, and because of its round shape, it also symbolizes the meaning of reunion.
On New Year's Day, eating rice cakes is to hope that in the new year, the children's academic Xi grades can improve step by step, and the family's life can improve step by step, and their careers will be successful.
The older generation often says: "5 things are not on the table on New Year's Day, the Year of the Dragon is empty", the above are the five indispensable foods on the table on New Year's Day, 2024 is the Year of the Dragon, finally, I wish everyone a happy New Year's Day and an auspicious Year of the Dragon!
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