What to give as New Year’s gift in 2019? What to eat on New Year’s Day?
"New Year's Day" literally means the beginning of the year. People often think that New Year's Day is a great day. So, what should we give as New Year's Day gifts in 2019? What to eat on New Year’s Day? There are good and bad days, and this happens repeatedly every day. Predicting the good and bad days in advance can help us avoid a lot of unnecessary troubles. Therefore, Shuimoxiansheng.com predicts the good and bad luck for each day in November 2019 of the lunar calendar to help everyone avoid trouble.What's a good New Year's gift in 2019?During New Year's Day, as the younger generation in the family, you should prepare a gift for the elders at home. Giving them a filial gift can make them very happy. Tea sets are a good choice. The elders generally like to drink tea, whether they drink it themselves or when there are guests at home, being able to take out a complete set of tea sets is not only a face-saving thing, but also makes the tea taste extra delicious.You should give a gift to the children at home on New Year's Day. The gift depends on their age and preferences. If they are old enough to go to school, you can give them a beautiful school bag or pencil case. Children generally like new school supplies, which will make them motivated to study every day. If he has special hobbies, such as playing basketball, playing guitar, practicing calligraphy, etc., then you can give him gifts based on these hobbies, which can make him very happy. You should also give your loved one a gift on New Year's Day. Girls can give boys some more practical gifts, and boys can give girls some more romantic gifts. Belts, ties, lighters, razors, etc. are more suitable for boys to show their charm, while roses, chocolates, necklaces, diamond rings, etc. are more romantic gifts suitable for boys to give to girls, which can express their sincere love for her and make her very moved. When boys choose diamond rings for girls, they can consider the brand's meaning. For example, a man can only customize one DR diamond ring in his lifetime. It requires the boy to customize it with his real name, which means the only true love in life and can meet the emotional needs of girls. What to eat on New Year’s Day?1. Five Spicy Dishes Five pungent dishes are five kinds of spicy dishes. They were first seen as New Year's Day foods in Zhou Chu's "Fengtu Ji" during the Wu and Jin dynasties. It said that five pungent dishes should be eaten in the morning on New Year's Day "to help stimulate the qi of the five internal organs" (quoted from "Yuzhu Baodian" Volume 1). On New Year's Day, the beginning of spring, people eat a mixture of spicy and tender vegetables such as onions, garlic, leeks, artemisia selengensis, and mustard. This is meant to welcome the new year and is called the "five-spicy dish."2. Peach soup is made by boiling peach leaves, branches and stems. The ancients believed that peach was the essence of the five elements and could repel evil spirits. It can subdue all ghosts, so drink it. 3. Pepper and cypress wine Pepper and cypress wine is made by soaking pepper and cypress leaves. According to ancient records, drinking pepper and cypress wine can cure diseases and prolong life. The traditional custom of drinking pepper and cypress wine on New Year's Day is mainly in Licheng, Shandong and Jiaxing, Zhejiang. 4. Soup cakes: History records that on New Year's Day, people in the capital often ate soup cakes, the so-called Nian 馎饦, or something similar. In ancient times, soup cakes referred to food made from wheat noodles boiled in water, which is similar to the noodles we eat today. 5. Glue and Teeth Candy According to the annotation of Du Gongzhan of the Sui Dynasty on "Jingchu Sui Shi Ji", the meaning of glue and teeth is "to make it firm and immovable". In fact, the custom of eating gum candy embodies the good wish of longevity, because if the teeth are strong, people can eat and drink, and naturally they will be healthy. 6. Rice cakes are made of glutinous rice in the south and sticky millet in the north. Rice cakes have a long history. In the Han Dynasty, rice cakes were already known as "rice cakes", "cakes", "bait" and "ci". Nian Gao is also called sticky cake, which means getting taller every year. 7. Dumplings: Eating dumplings on New Year’s Day was popular in the north during the Ming and Qing dynasties. For example, Chen Bang's "Wan Shu Miscellaneous Notes" during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty said that on New Year's Day, people in Wanping County, a suburb of Beijing, "make flatbreads and offer them to elders as a token of their longevity." People eat dumplings on New Year's Day to bring in wealth and treasure. Dumplings have stuffing, which makes it convenient for people to wrap all kinds of auspicious things into the stuffing to express their wishes for the new year. 8. Eggs The custom of everyone eating an egg on New Year's Day has already appeared in the "Fengtu Ji" during the Wu and Jin dynasties. |
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