Chinese New Year's Eve meal originates from the ancient year-end sacrifice ceremony, after worshiping the gods and ancestors, the reunion dinner.
The first course: Hefei Chinese New Year's Eve rice represents the old hen soup in Feixi
During the time of Han Gaozu's Ancestor Liu Bang, "Feixi Old Hen Soup" was used as a tribute. Liu Mingchuan, the first inspector of Taiwan, also admired this delicacy in his hometown. "Feixi Old Hen Soup" is made of good ingredients, and no auxiliary ingredients are added when cooking. Its soup is delicious and has high nutritional value.
The second course: Wuhu Chinese New Year's Eve rice represents fried dumplings
The third way: Bengbu Chinese New Year's Eve rice represents rice dumplings
The fourth way: Huainan Chinese New Year's Eve rice represents Bagongshan tofu milk
Bagongshan tofu is crystal clear, white like a jade plate, tender as gelatinous, delicate texture, refreshing and smooth, no yellow pulp water flavor, and the tray is not broken. The finished dish is golden in color, crisp on the outside and tender on the inside, and delicious in taste.
Fifth course: Ma'anshan Chinese New Year's Eve rice represents quarrying dried tea
At the end of the Qianlong Dynasty, there lived a hard-working and simple peasant couple under the Cuiluo Mountain, the farmer's name was Qin Gan, and the peasant woman was called Chagu, and they invented the technology of making dried tea in their labor. The dried tea they made is red in color, smooth and bright, the texture is hard and delicate, it has toughness, it is folded in half, it is torn open with fine lines and other unique and distinctive, imported mellow, the more chewed the more flavorful, it is known as the best tea tasting.
Sixth way: Huaibei Chinese New Year's Eve rice represents water steamed buns
Steamed buns are made from unleavened flour and into a soft dough, rolled out with a rolling pin into a circle of about 0.1 cm thick and about 30 cm in diameter. Put it in a steamer, put a grate in it, put water in the pot, bring it to a boil, spread the drawer with a drawer cloth, and place the rolled pancakes on the drawer.
The seventh way: Tongling Chinese New Year's Eve rice represents pills
The eighth course: Anqing Chinese New Year's Eve rice represents chicken soup with fried rice
Yuan Ming, a Qing dynasty, said in the "Suiyuan Food List": "Chicken is the most powerful, and all vegetables rely on it." The strong aroma of fried rice in the old hen soup is the fusion of fried rice and the old hen. The simmered old hen must be the local "stupid chicken". It is said that in the past, the families of well-off people used to simmer three such old hens together, and the soup was more concentrated; And, of course, there's the idea of increasing the number of chicken thighs. This kind of old soup stewed with three old hens is not used at one time in more times, and it is often necessary to mix a little boiling water when eating to cope with a large number of Spring Festival visitors.
The ninth way: Huangshan Chinese New Year's Eve rice represents stinky mandarin fish
Legend has it that more than 200 years ago, fishmongers in Guichi, Tongling, Datong and other places along the river transported the Mandarin fish of the Yangtze River to the mountains of Huizhou in wooden barrels every winter, because it took seven or eight days to go to Tunxi, in order to prevent the deterioration of fresh fish, fishmongers sprinkled a layer of light salt water on the barrels, and often flipped up and down: when the fish came to Huizhou, the gills were still red, the scales did not fall off, the quality was unchanged, but the skin emitted a peculiar smell. After washing, it is slightly fried in hot oil, cooked over a thin fire, and the peculiar smell is completely eliminated, and the fresh flavor is incomparable, becoming a popular delicacy
The tenth way: Fuyang Chinese New Year's Eve rice represents powder chicken
Pink chicken, characterized by light butter and bright, soft and cottony appearance, pink and red tender inside. Taste a bite of slightly spicy and slightly numb pink chicken, which makes people feel endlessly evocative. There are two kinds of powder chicken, one is fried powder chicken, and the other is boiled powder chicken, which is a banner for the classification of chicken in Anhui.
Eleventh course: Suzhou Chinese New Year's Eve rice represents Fu Liji roast chicken
Qian Hao, the grandson of one of the Five Emperors, invented the art of cooking chicken, and was appreciated for offering pheasant soup to Yao, and was given the title of Peng Zu (彭祖). The Chu Ci Tianwen says: "Peng Zu Shu Pheasant Emperor He Fei? How long will it be?" Peng Zu is not only the legendary eight-hundred-year-old old star, but also revered as the founder of Chinese cooking, and the ancestor of chicken cooking.
The twelfth course: Chuzhou Chinese New Year's Eve rice represents Fengyang stuffed tofu
Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, was born in Fengyang, and one day, Zhu Yuanzhang got a bowl of stuffed tofu in Fengyang City, and after eating it, he felt that the taste was excellent. After that, he often went to this restaurant to beg for stuffed tofu. Later, when he put on the dragon robe, he ordered the chef of the Huang family restaurant in Fengyang City to be summoned to the imperial palace to cook "Fengyang stuffed tofu" for him, and became the cook of his imperial dining room. Since then, this dish has been worth a hundred times and has become a famous dish on the ming court feast, which has been passed down to this day.
Thirteenth course: Lu'an Chinese New Year's Eve rice represents egg dumplings
Fourteenth way: Xuancheng Chinese New Year's Eve rice represents Hu's one-pin pot
When Hu Shi, a generation of literary heroes, was the president of Peking University, he used the "one-pin pot" to entertain Mr. Liang Shiqiu, the son-in-law of Jixi, and received the praise of "a pint pot, three or five or seven layers of colorful colors, tasting its taste, and not leaving the table from the pot". When Hu Shi was ambassador to the United States, he often entertained foreign friends with the "one-pin pot" in his hometown. He also invited the American teacher Dewey with the "one pot of pot", won the praise of the audience, and became a beautiful talk.
Fifteenth course: Chizhou Chinese New Year's Eve rice represents sweet wine
Sixteenth course: Bozhou Chinese New Year's Eve rice represents lamb stew