Do I have to go home for the reunion dinner on New Year’s Eve? What to eat for the reunion dinner?
The arrival of the Little New Year makes the atmosphere of the New Year warm up a little bit. People who have worked hard for a year have new busyness starting from the Little New Year and have started to prepare for the New Year one after another. So is it necessary to go home for a reunion dinner on the Little New Year’s Eve? What to eat for the reunion dinner?Do I have to go home for the reunion dinner on New Year’s Eve?In fact, as far as the current situation is concerned, many office workers have not yet had a holiday on the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, so whether they will go home for the reunion dinner depends on the situation. Generally, the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, which is the night of the 30th day of the lunar year, is an indispensable reunion dinner for the family.If you are in Jiangsu, Zhejiang or Shanghai, Xiaonianye refers to New Year's Eve. You should go home for a reunion dinner on this day because many friends who work away from home have returned to their hometowns to celebrate the New Year. New Year's Eve means the next day is the New Year. People who work away from home rarely have the chance to have dinner with their families in a year, so it is a must. A legend about reunion dinner According to legend, a long time ago, there was an old man who hired a good chef. His family had an only son who was drafted into the army. When the Chinese New Year was approaching, the old man and his wife remembered that their son had not sent a letter home for a year, and they didn't know whether he was dead or alive. So they had stern faces all day long and had no intention of celebrating the Chinese New Year. The old chef saw it and felt sad for the old couple, but there was nothing he could do. He just wanted to cook better and make the old couple happy. On the 30th day, the old chef went to the street early in the morning to buy some pigeons, chickens, fish and vegetables, cooked them in the kitchen, and was about to serve them when the old man's only son came back. The old man was very happy and pulled his son aside to ask him many questions. This again troubled the old chef. He had only prepared two dishes for the old couple, but now there were three people. It would be a shame to serve two dishes. If he made another dish, there wouldn't be enough. What should he do? After thinking for a while, the old chef came up with an idea. He piled the cooked dishes and the leftover dishes together, fried a large dish and served it up. The old man took a bite of the dish and thought it tasted good, so he asked: "What is this dish called? It tastes really good." The old chef didn't know either! He thought: Your family is reunited today, and I made this meal for your reunion. Just say casually: "reunion dinner". From then on, this kind of meal was passed down, and every year on the 30th day of the lunar calendar, people would prepare a "reunion dinner" to represent the reunion of the family. What to eat for the reunion dinner?The customs in each place are different, so the food eaten at the reunion dinner will also be different. Here are a few examples:Beijing: Tang Lusun, an old-generation gourmet, once recalled, "Back then, the people in the northern countryside were simple and honest, and their lives were simple. Except for eating white flour dumplings during festivals, they usually ate dumplings made of buckwheat flour, sorghum flour, bean flour, and black bread with bran." As the saying goes, everyone is equal in front of dumplings. When the old year and the new year alternate at midnight on New Year's Eve, dumplings become the protagonist of New Year's Eve. To make dumplings, you first have to knead the dough and roll the skin, then chop and season the stuffing, and finally wrap them and cook them in a pot. The whole process is full of a sense of ritual and participation. Jiangsu: Tangyuan is the main dish of the Southerners’ New Year’s Eve. The most important ingredient of glutinous rice balls is glutinous rice flour. Soak the glutinous rice in water until it is soft enough to be crushed with fingers. Then use graphite to slowly knead it into rice paste. Pour the rice paste into a cloth bag, tie it tightly, and hang it on the eaves to let the water inside slowly drain out. After all the water is removed, only the whole rice flour is left in the bag. Break it into small pieces, grind it into powder again, and dry it thoroughly to make water-ground glutinous rice flour. Inner Mongolia: Mutton hotpot is the longest and warmest meal for people in Inner Mongolia. The mutton must be selected from the best mutton from the Inner Mongolia grasslands. Cut the prepared mutton into dices, and when it is stewed, add the prepared vegetables and blanch them. When they are half cooked, spread them on the bottom of the pot. Pour a few spoonfuls of mutton with soup on it, turn up the fire, add some chili peppers, use another pot, scoop a little homemade lard and melt it in the pot. When it is 70% to 80% hot, quickly pour it on the chili peppers in the pot to make it spicy, fresh and fragrant. The mutton pot is ready. Sichuan: Preparation of Chinese sausage starts in the twelfth lunar month. The mild and mysterious sunshine in the twelfth lunar month, coupled with an average relative humidity of 40%, gives the sausage a special flavor. Such sausages can ignite childhood memories: in that old house with simple furnishings and mottled walls, when it rained, the whole house was filled with the aroma of rich oil and sauce. Guangzhou: Every Chinese New Year, the happiest thing for people is to choose sweets. Lian Heung House’s coconut milk rice cake is eaten almost every year. It is made with glutinous rice flour and wheat flour as the main ingredients, with fresh coconut milk, milk, sugar, oil and other auxiliary ingredients. It is fresh, smooth and delicious. There are also raisin cakes, pineapple cakes, peach cakes, and chicken biscuits, all of which are delicious. |
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