The first day of the lunar new year
1, New Year's Cake-New Year's Cake is a must-have food for almost every family because of its homophonic "high year" and varied tastes. The styles of rice cakes are square yellow and white rice cakes, which symbolize gold and silver and express the meaning of making a fortune in the New Year.
2. Annual Grain-In some areas of Guangdong, the first meal during the Spring Festival should be "annual grain", that is, the whole family should be cooked for three days during the Spring Festival, which means "don't worry about eating or drinking".
3. jiaozi-It is a custom for northerners to eat jiaozi on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, but now many southern Renye Fang in Renye Fang have joined the ranks of eating jiaozi. Eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve means "good luck in the coming year", while eating jiaozi on New Year's Day means good luck in the coming year.
4. Tangyuan-the breakfast tangyuan on New Year's Day must have a more special meaning. It means: everything goes well and the whole family is happy.
5, noodles-longevity noodles, also known as longevity noodles, eat longevity noodles on the first day of the new year, meaning "longevity every year", wishing a hundred years of life, many elderly people still maintain this custom.
6, chicken soup-drink chicken soup on New Year's Day, symbolizing "peace". In addition, the main laborers in the family have to eat chicken feet, which means "catching money in the New Year".
7, sweets-eating sweets on New Year's Day means that life in the new year is beautiful and sweet.
Chinese New Year
1, the next day's noodles should be made with the first day's jiaozi noodles. And this must be cold soup. That is, noodles are cooked and soaked in cold water, which is called cold soup.
Nowadays, people usually cook noodles or fry some sauces to make noodles or Zhajiang Noodles. However, it must be soaked in cold water to maintain the custom of "eating noodles on the second day of school"
2. On the second day of New Year's Day, my daughter (son-in-law) went back to her family to pay New Year's greetings. Generally, you must eat the leftovers from the New Year's Eve dinner, such as chicken. You should keep your head, wings, feet and tail on New Year's Eve, but you can eat them on the second day of New Year's Eve.
Cook more meals and save them for the second day of New Year's Eve. There must be bacon sausages, fish and noodles.
In the north, the god of wealth was sacrificed on the second day of the first month. On this day, both commercial shops and ordinary families will hold activities to worship the god of wealth. Sacrifice should use five major offerings, namely whole pig, whole sheep, whole chicken, whole duck, red live carp and so on. I hope to make a fortune this year.
New Year's Eve
1, I thought the third day of the first month was Xiaomi's birthday. On this day, I made a vow to sacrifice and pray for the New Year. I didn't eat rice.
2. As the saying goes, the zygote turns home on the third day. Hezi is a kind of China pasta, which is popular in northern China, especially in Beijing and Tianjin. Leek, fennel, eggs and pork are more common, and the collocation of leek+eggs, fennel+pork and leek+pork is the most common and popular.
Zygotic dough generally does not use fermented noodles, but uses hot noodles and cold water. The zygote is very popular because of its thin skin and big stuffing and delicious taste.
In some places in the north, it is popular to eat jiaozi on the third day. Because some people need to go out early and come back late at this time, they are in a hurry to go to work, so the famous saying of folk customs is: "After making friends, they enter the facade." In other words, when relatives leave home, they will eat jiaozi to keep them safe and reunite next year. The blessings of relatives at home are all wrapped in jiaozi.
Chinese New Year
Folding-the whole family eats folding on this day. The so-called folding basket is a hodgepodge of leftovers from grades one to three.
In the past, people were not rich, and the leftovers on the first day were reluctant to pour, and the leftovers on the second day were "stacked" together. Leftovers have a special taste, and some people like them.
New Year's Eve
Jiaozi —— Eating jiaozi in the fifth month of the lunar calendar means that people expect good luck and happiness.
Old Beijing pays attention to it. You must chop the meat stuffing from jiaozi yourself, and so must the vegetable stuffing. In this case, it indicates that everything will go well in the coming year. Cut everything that doesn't go well. Jiao Zi, who is in the fifth grade, stresses that the stuffing is meatballs. Jiaozi is oblate in shape, much like the ancient gold ingot symbolizing wealth. Family reunion to eat "jiaozi" means that in the new year, we can increase our wealth and live a better life.
Chinese New Year
The "end of the year" has passed, and everything has resumed its usual life. So you can eat anything as usual.
Seventh day
eat longevity noodle
The "year off" of the sixth day has passed, and everything has returned to the usual life, and you can eat anything.
The seventh day of the first month is "People's Day". It is said that Nu Wa created the world at the beginning, and after creating animals such as chickens, dogs, pigs, sheep, cows and horses, she created people on the seventh day, so this day is the birthday of mankind. People eat "soup" made of seven kinds of dishes every day, which is called "Qibao soup". In addition to eating "seven-dish soup", there are also "first porridge" and "noodles" which symbolize good luck and progress.
Eat noodles
In addition, some places have the custom of eating noodles on this day, which means to wrap the legs of the years with noodles to show longevity. In addition, the 17th and 27th of the first month are also regarded as "personal days". The seventh, seventeenth and twenty-seventh days of the first month are the "days" for children, adults and the elderly respectively. Whoever wants to live a life will eat noodles.
Eat dumplings
On People's Day, women are forbidden to sew in Linqing and Jinan. Eating jiaozi in Shan County in the morning is called "squeezing the mouse's mouth". It is said that rats can't be lit at night to avoid harming the people. Zichuan eats small tofu on this day, symbolizing eating mouse brains.
Chinese New Year
On the eighth day of the eighth lunar month, release the blessings. On the eighth day of the first month, there is a "release" activity, which is to take some fish and birds raised at home outside and release them into the wild. The release on the eighth day of the eighth lunar month not only embodies the ancient people's morality of respecting nature and living in harmony, but also expresses people's good wishes for the prosperity of all things in the world at the beginning of the new year.
Chuba Chu Jiu beef & mutton
Exercise:
1. Cut the beef brisket, put it in a pot and add cold water to boil. Turn off the fire after 3 minutes and rinse with warm water.
2. Cut the beef tendon into pieces and add water to the pressure cooker. After cooking to SAIC, turn to low heat and turn off the heat after 20 minutes.
3. Take out the beef tendon after natural exhaust and rinse it with warm water.
4. Slice the onion and ginger, peel the garlic and stir fry in the oil pan.
5. Pour in old bittern or water, fragrant leaves, star anise, Amomum tsaoko and cinnamon, and bring to a boil.
6. Add beef brisket and beef tendon, and after boiling, add cooking wine, soy sauce, soy sauce and rock sugar.
7. Turn to low heat and stew for about 2-3 hours until the beef and beef tendon are tender and tasty.
Drink bangzi porridge on the tenth day.
Exercise:
1, appropriate amount of rice washing.
2. Peel and wash the corn.
3. Put the corn and rice in the pot.
4. Pour in the right amount of water.
5, the fire is boiled, and the fire is slowly boiled for about 20 minutes. The cooked corn porridge is sticky, beautiful and more delicious.
The 11th day of the first month (February 18)
On the eleventh day of the first month, the son-in-law was sacrificed. Legend has it that Zi Gu is a concubine and jealous of her original match. On the fifteenth day of the first month, she was killed in the toilet. God was merciful and named her Ce Shen. Zi Gu represents the oppressed women in feudal society and is regarded as the patron saint of weak women.
Eating fish has a good start.
Eating fish in the New Year pays attention to "fish (surplus) every year". Fish is not only delicious, but also has high medicinal efficacy.
Exercise:
1, fish washing.
2. Put the ginger slices in hot oil.
3. Pour in the fish and stir fry.
4. Add some soy sauce.
5, put a little sugar.
6. Add water and cook for a while.
7. Drop a few drops of delicious food before cooking and sprinkle with chopped green onion.
The twelfth day of the first month (February 19)
On the twelfth day of the first month, a light shed was set up. Folk commonly known as the "Twelve Lamp Sheds" means that the Lantern Festival is coming. From this day on, the village managers will gather skilled craftsmen and young adults to prepare lanterns and make all kinds of preparations for the Lantern Festival.
There are ducks at table 12.
People in many places in China like to eat ducks. For example, Beijing people like roast duck, Nanjing people like salted duck, and Sichuan people like Zhangcha duck. How can ducks be missing from the Chinese New Year dinner table?
Exercise:
1. Wash the duck and cut it into medium-sized pieces for easy taste. Remove the fat duck skin.
2. Put the duck in a bowl, add cooking wine, salt, soy sauce, ginger slices and onion slices, and marinate for 20 minutes.
3. Put the fat duck skin oil into the pot.
4. Press the small fire with a shovel and slowly force out the duck oil.
When both sides of duck skin turn golden yellow, a lot of duck oil comes out and duck skin is served.
6. Pour the dried peppers into duck oil and stir-fry the peppers.
7. Pour in the salted duck and stir-fry until cooked.
8. Pour in soy sauce, stir-fry and color.
9. Pour a bottle of beer instead of duck, and simmer slowly.
10, slowly collect the juice, pour in the green pepper and stir fry.
The 13th day of the first month (February 20th)
On the thirteenth day of the first month, lights are lit under the stove, and Yuanxiao is put in advance. On this day, people want to light a lamp under the kitchen stove, which is called "lighting the stove lamp". In fact, because the Lantern Festival is coming on the fifteenth day of the first month, all the lamps made by families are called "lamp holders".
Exercise:
1, shrimp washed and drained.
2. Soak the shrimp in onion, ginger and cooking wine for 5 minutes, turning it a few times in the middle to soak it evenly in the seasoning.
3. Pour out the juice and keep the onion and ginger.
4. Pour a little oil and stir-fry the shrimps in a hot pot.
5. Stir fry slowly until the shrimp turns red and add salt.
6. Add soy sauce and cook for one minute.
7. Add green and red pepper rings.
8. Dry the soup and mix well.
14th day of the first month (February 2 1)
The fourteenth day of the first month is the birthday of the "Waterfront Empress". Niangniang was born on the fourteenth day of the first month, also known as "Mrs. Shuntian". Legend has it that Empress Chen was born in the Tang Dynasty, and later became an immortal to save dystocia women. Therefore, a folk shrine was set up to offer sacrifices, called "Our Lady of Shuntian".
Shi si da wan Zha Jiang noodles
Old Beijingers generally only recognize Liubiju and Tianyuan sauces, and make noodles with handmade noodles, which are hot in summer and cold in winter, with eight dishes that old Beijingers pay the most attention to when eating slag noodles, namely shredded cucumber, shredded radish, chopped Chinese toon, chopped celery, mung bean mouth, shredded soybean, shredded Chinese cabbage and chopped green garlic. If you take more bites of Laba garlic, it will taste better. Pay attention to wechat "sea tourists"
Exercise:
1, diced pork belly, shredded cucumber and radish.
2. Put the right amount of oil in the wok, first put the fat into the wok, stir-fry the oil and then add the refined meat. Add a small amount of soy sauce and cooking wine after the pot is fragrant. Take the diced meat out of the pan.
3. Use fried meat with fried sauce. First, cook the sauce until it glues, and then slowly glues with low heat.
4. Stir-fry for about 10 minutes, then pour in the fried diced meat, stir-fry for a few times, and sprinkle with chopped green onion when out of the pan.
5, and then there is cooking noodles.
6. Then put the vegetables in boiling water and remove the raw ones.
The fifteenth day of the first month (February 22nd)
On the fifteenth day of the first month, the silkworm (God) shines at night. According to legend, the fifteenth day of the first month is the birthday of Lei Zu, the silkworm god, so this day has become a day for people to sacrifice to the silkworm god. Silkworm worshippers take rice porridge and meat fat as offerings, and at the same time, they hold candles with bamboo poles and insert them in the fields, which is called "according to the field silkworm" (it is said that observing the color of the lamp can judge the abundance and sorrow of a year). This activity gradually became the source of the Lantern Festival custom in later generations.
Fifteen families celebrate the Lantern Festival.
On the fifteenth day of the first month, I went out to enjoy the moon, light and set fire, enjoy riddles and eat Yuanxiao. At first, people used to call this kind of food "Fuyuanzi", and later it was called "Tangtuan" or "Tangyuan", which means reunion and symbolizes family reunion, harmony and happiness.