The custom of eating New Year's Eve.

The Spring Festival is coming. As a family reunion dinner with a long history and tradition, it is not only the highlight of every family holiday, but also the object of business development and operation, increasing profits and even expanding popularity and hype. Recently, a hotel in Hangzhou launched a high-priced New Year's Eve dinner, which triggered controversy from all walks of life, and made people generally pay attention to how to correctly understand and treat the New Year's Eve dinner, how to make rational consumption and folk culture complement each other and other related topics. Recently, the reporter conducted a field survey on the traditional customs of New Year's Eve in different regions and ethnic groups.

The Kanto New Year's Eve dinner retains the ancient custom of the interaction between Han and Manchu.

Cao Baoming, a famous folklorist in China, said that the New Year's Eve dinner is also called "reunion dinner" or "family happiness", because after eating this meal, it is necessary to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, so it is also called "New Year's Eve dinner". In ancient times, people thought that the New Year's Eve dinner also had the functions of expelling epidemic diseases, exorcising evil spirits and strengthening the body. Therefore, the characteristic of New Year's Eve is that the whole family has a reunion dinner, and all men, women and children participate. For this reunion, family members or children who go out must return home before New Year's Eve. If you can't get back in time, you should leave a space on the dining table for those who haven't come back and put a pair of chopsticks to show family reunion.

The New Year's Eve dinner is usually the most abundant meal in a year among the farmers in Jiuguandong, and it will be ready on the 30th. There must be fish on the table, which means more money and more vegetables in the new year, and everything goes well; There must also be a bowl of braised meatballs to show family reunion. Cao Baoming said: "According to Zonggu's records of Jingchu times, there was a custom of eating New Year's Eve dinner at least in the Southern and Northern Dynasties."

Kanto people have always said that "the poor celebrate the New Year, the rich celebrate the New Year, and they don't eat jiaozi during the New Year". Changshi of Jilin Folklore Society said that jiaozi had appeared as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. There are different legends and stories about the origin of jiaozi, but Kanto people have always advocated that jiaozi, the first meal of the Spring Festival, was eaten at midnight on New Year's Eve. This custom is spread all over the urban and rural areas of Kanto and passed down from generation to generation.

Nowadays, many farmers in Northeast China still maintain many ancient customs, such as offering sacrifices to ancestors, setting off firecrackers and eating jiaozi. However, in recent years, eating and drinking on New Year's Eve is no longer important. Shi believes: "The New Year's Eve dinner has already gone beyond the scope of eating, but lies in the warmth between people, the greetings from family members and the warmth in the warmth. I have nostalgia for the old year that is about to pass away and hope for the upcoming new year. "

Tujia new year's eve dinner: it is essential to buckle meat and pour sea pepper.

Just entering the twelfth lunar month, Xu, a farmer in Hongxing Village, Banxi Township, Youyang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, Chongqing, is busy. In order to prepare this New Year's Eve dinner, it is impossible to prepare some essential traditional main courses ten and a half days before. Among them, the most important ones are "deduction of meat" and "reclamation of pepper". Xu said that "pork-cutting" seems simple, but it really takes some effort to be really fat but not greasy, tender and refreshing. "Sea pepper" is to mix glutinous rice flour with seasoning, then fill it into the hollowed-out sea pepper, and then marinate it in a pickle jar for half a month. On New Year's Eve, take it out and fry it in oil before serving.

Xu told reporters that Tujia people attach importance to these two dishes because it is rare to eat meat several times a year, and glutinous rice is also a rare thing. Therefore, every household regards these two dishes as an opportunity to show their skills on the New Year's Eve, and it is also a reward for their families who have worked hard for a year.

Surprisingly, kelp once became the main course of Tujia New Year's Eve. Due to the difficulty in eating salt and poor medical conditions in Tujia areas in the past, people often suffer from big neck disease due to iodine deficiency. In order to supplement iodine for their families, Tujia people put a kelp on the New Year's Eve dinner to supplement the iodine needed by the human body. Under the conditions at that time, kelp was really delicious for Tujia people, and it was impossible to eat it often, so it became a good dish for New Year's Eve. Nowadays, kelp has already withdrawn from the "stage" of the New Year's Eve.

After Tujia people have eaten the New Year's Eve dinner, each family will light a handful of firewood. Everyone will sit around and listen to the old people telling stories, and they will stay up until dawn, named "Shoutian Ridge" to express their love for the fields.

Korean new year's eve dinner, new year's wine, Gade song and dance.

Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in Jilin Province is the main inhabited area of Korean people in China, and the Spring Festival is also the traditional and most important festival for Korean people. Korean New Year's Eve dinner has its own traditional food and characteristics.

Cao Baoming, a folk expert, said: "Korean New Year's Eve dinner is very rich, with 70 or 80 plates, large and small, and some families even have hundreds of plates. Among them,' old wine' and' Degu' occupy a special position. "

On the eve of the Spring Festival, the reporter saw in the villages of Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture that many Korean villagers were brewing "old wine". Jin Zhen, 52, is a villager in Mijiang Township, Hunchun City. She told reporters that Koreans have the custom of drinking "old wine" on New Year's Eve. This kind of wine is mostly brewed before the "New Year's Day". The Lunar New Year is equivalent to the Spring Festival of the Han nationality. "New Year's Wine" is a kind of medicinal liquor with rice as the main raw material and a variety of Chinese herbal medicines. Used for drinking and entertaining guests during the Spring Festival, they think that drinking this wine can ward off evil spirits and prolong life.

Jin said that "Degu" is a kind of soup cake, that is, after the rice flour is steamed, it is mashed into a big sticky ball, then rubbed into oval round strips, cut into thin slices, poured into chicken, pheasant and beef soup pots, and then put some sesame oil or sesame oil and seaweed when eating, which is delicious.

The reporter learned that North Korean women should wear beautiful national costumes on the 30th. Most families start making cakes early in the morning. "Although there are machines selling cakes now, we still like to make them ourselves with a cake hammer because the taste is still different." South Korean villager Park Ying-ko said.

Jin Zhen said that on New Year's Eve, it was a very happy moment for more than a dozen families to get together for dinner. The whole family will stay up all night. Different from the Han nationality, the Korean New Year's Eve party is mainly about singing and dancing, accompanied by the ancient Gaqin and flute music in China to welcome the New Year.

People's new year's eve dinner reveals changes.

What to eat on New Year's Eve? Recently, the reporter interviewed three ordinary citizens in Jinan. From their narration, we can find that China people's New Year's Eve dinner is persistent and changing, and both persistence and change reveal the information of the development of the times.

No matter how many dishes you have, you should eat jiaozi.

Li Rongan, a retiree from Dingzishan Community, Huaiyin District, Jinan.

Speaking of New Year's Eve, he thought:

New Year's Eve? It must be jiaozi. How many dishes are fried, you should eat jiaozi, even if you only eat one. This is a tradition in China. The family sat together, reviewed the important events in the family in the past year, and had a few drinks, which made them happy. I was looking forward to the Chinese New Year, but now life is like the Chinese New Year every day.

Why do you want to eat New Year's Eve at home? My family is very kind, round and has a good atmosphere. It's easy to eat New Year's Eve in a restaurant, but the taste of the year is much less. As the saying goes, "Busy New Year".

Eating hot pot this year is lively and economical.

6 1 year-old Suo Yinglin is a retiree of Jinan Guomian No.2 Factory.

He told reporters:

This year's New Year's Eve dinner will be an innovation. Besides jiaozi, we are going to eat hot pot. Now mutton, shrimp and frozen tofu are all ready. My son and daughter-in-law work in a hotel and don't have a holiday during the New Year. Go home around 1 1 in the evening, and you can have a hot meal when you come back.

Usually, the Chinese New Year is to fry a table of vegetables, and the leftovers will take several days. How much hot pot to eat and how much to rinse is lively and convenient, which also indicates that the coming year is booming and steaming.

Video chat and vigil on New Year's Eve

Liu is an ordinary resident of Weijiu Road Community in Jinan.

The 62-year-old woman smiled and said:

Our family's New Year's Eve dinner is still eaten at home. Why? My third son works in Japan. On New Year's Eve, the family will chat on the computer and watch the vigil. The cooked dishes have to be uploaded to the internet for him to watch. When setting off firecrackers, I also want to take pictures with my camera and pass them on to him. In our family, this is called "network interaction". According to Xinhua News Agency

New Year's Eve dinner has become a social and cultural phenomenon.

"Eating New Year's Eve is a tradition of China people, but the new era has given it new meaning." Bian Jiang, deputy secretary-general of China Cuisine Association, believes that the New Year's Eve dinner has broken through the traditional family reunion and gradually developed into a new social and cultural phenomenon.

Frontier said that China is an agricultural country, and it is very important to have a bumper harvest all year round. Every New Year's Eve, the whole family will get together to share the joy of harvest, so harvest, eating and atmosphere constitute the cultural basis of the earliest New Year's Eve dinner. In the past, because the people of China were relatively poor, eating a good meal became an important part of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new. Nowadays, with the improvement of people's living standards, it is not so important for a family to get together for a good meal. What matters is the cultural atmosphere and spiritual enjoyment of the New Year's Eve.