New Year's Eve is the last night of the year. The last day of the year is called the "New Year's Eve", meaning that the old year is here to end, another new year. The last day of the year is called "year-end", meaning that the old year is removed and replaced by a new year. "New Year's Eve" is the night of the year, also known as the New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, when the last night of the year. It is the last night of the year. New Year's Eve is the day of the old and the new, family reunion, ancestor worship, with the Qingming Festival, the July half, the Chongyang Festival is the traditional Chinese folk ancestor festival. New Year's Eve, in the hearts of the country is of special significance, the most important day at the end of the year, the wanderers are to rush home to reunite with their families, in the sound of firecrackers to resign the old year, fireworks full of sky to welcome the new spring.
The last day of the "year", known as the "year-end", that night called "New Year's Eve". It is connected to the beginning and end of the new year, called the "end of the year, near the end of the year", is the eve of the new year, is an important junction point between the old and the new time. New Year's Eve because often in the lunar calendar December 29 or 30, so also known as the day for the New Year's Eve 30. The day of the New Year's Eve, folk pay particular attention to the busy households or cleaning the court house, to remove the old cloth new, lights and decorations, to welcome the ancestors home for the New Year, and with the New Year cake, three animals and rice dishes and three tea and five wine offerings.
What to eat on New Year's Eve in the South
Jejte riževe torte
Some places in the south pay attention to eating New Year's cake for Chinese New Year, which symbolizes that the harvest is higher than the year, and the realm is higher than the year.
Chinese people celebrate the Spring Festival, or Lunar New Year, the northerners eat dumplings, the southerners mainly eat rice cakes, especially the people of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. New Year's cake is also known as "Nian Nian Gao", which is the same as "Nian Nian Gao", meaning that people's work and life will improve year by year. If it is fried rice cake, Shanghai people like to put a little sugar in the seasoning. It feels more delicious! Rice cake as a food has a long history in China. The ancient people also had a development process of rice cake making from rice grain cake to powder cake. The sixth century A.D. cookbook "Food" contains the method of making rice cake "white cocoon sugar", "cooked cooking Panicum rice, and hot in the mortar and pestle net, pounded for the rice consulting patties, must make extremely cooked, do not make rice grains." After the glutinous rice is steamed, it is pounded into rice patties while it is hot, then cut into the size of peach kernels, dried and fried, rolled in sugar and ready to eat.
New Year's hotpot
The New Year's Eve dinner in the south usually consists of hot pot and fish. Hot pot boiling, steaming, warm and exciting, red-hot. Many people like to eat hot pot, whether meat or vegetarian, all kinds of delicious food can be eaten in the hot pot; secondly, eating hot pot for the New Year means red-hot and red-hot, to curry a good fortune. Many hot pot restaurants purposely launched during the Spring Festival Spring Festival package, the family around a special hot pot, warmth, atmosphere is also good.
Uživanje rib
There seems to be an unspoken rule about the custom of eating fish in the New Year, in many regions south of the river. Fish is the last dish at the banquet, served on the table is basically not to eat it, as an auspicious object, meaning "year after year". In some places, the fish is eaten at the New Year's dinner, leaving the head and tail until next year (i.e., the beginning of the year), expressing the prayer of "having a head and tail" for the New Year. The fish also have instructions: fish head to the VIP or elders, reflecting respect; guests are literati, the fish belly to him, praise his belly ink, full of articles; guests are martial arts, about the fish spine to him, praise his rigid and bold, can be used as a backbone. There is also the placement of the fish on the table, the head of the fish to whom, the tail to whom, after the set can no longer end move. The head of the fish to the person who "cut the ribbon", the tail of the fish to the person who "sponsor"; first by the two to drink a glass of wine, and then by the head of the fish to the first chopsticks clip fish to eat (so-called "cut the ribbon"), and only then everyone Then everyone can move their chopsticks, and the atmosphere is lively and cheerful.
Jesti cmoke
In Jiangsu, Shanghai and other places, it is customary to eat dumplings in the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year. The Lantern Festival is called "Shang Yuan Festival" in Taoism. According to the Yuan Dynasty, Yi Tu Zhen's "(girl) Huanhuanji" quoted from "San Yu Post": After Chang'e ran to the moon, Yi became sick with longing. On the night of the 14th day of the first month, a child suddenly asked to see, calling himself Chang'e's ambassador, said: "the lady knows that you miss, no way to get down, tomorrow is the full moon, you should make a pill with rice flour, dough like the moon, placed in the northwest of the room, called the name of the lady, three nights can descend and." Yi acted according to the law, Chang'e really descended. It can be seen that the Lantern Festival eating Lantern, is to take the auspicious meaning of "dumplings like the moon".
Happy New Year's Eve and all the best to everyone!