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Kanto New Year's Eve: Preserving ancient customs and interaction between Manchu and Han.

On New Year's Eve, the New Year's Eve dinner is also called "Group Year" or "Family Fun", because after this meal, we will bid farewell to the old year and usher in the new year, so it is also called "Another Year". 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.

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

The most important New Year's Eve dinner is "braised meat" and "sea pepper stuffing". It seems simple to "buckle meat", but it still needs some effort to really be 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.

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 at the New Year's Eve dinner, and at the same time, they also treat their families who have worked hard for a year.

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: New Year's wine, Gade, singing and dancing.

Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture of Jilin Province is the main inhabited area of Korean in China. Korean New Year's Eve dinner is very rich, with 70 or 80 plates, big or small, and some families even reach hundreds. Among them,' Laojiu' and' Degu' occupy a special position. "

Koreans have the custom of drinking "New Year's 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.

"Degu" is a kind of soup cake, that is, after 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 added with sesame oil or sesame oil and laver when eating, which is delicious.

On New Year's Eve, Korean women should wear beautiful national costumes. 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.

Now eat New Year's Eve.

The New Year's Eve dinner will present three major trends: First, the dining procedure is gradually simplified, and people no longer only pay attention to "eating", but pay more attention to enjoying cultural and other spiritual enjoyment in a reunited family atmosphere; Second, the New Year's Eve dinner will be more diversified, and Chinese food is no longer the only choice. Western food and other exotic diets will gradually be recognized by China people; Third, the New Year's Eve dinner will go from restaurants to families. For some qualified high-income families, the New Year's Eve dinner is no longer arranged in hotels, but friends and relatives are invited to have a "big meal" at home.

Taboo of new year's eve dinner

First, everyone agreed not to move chopsticks on a plate of fish on New Year's Eve. The picture shows that fish are lustful (surplus) every year.

Second, the Spring Festival is not suitable for adults to drink soup, which means adults are always running around outside, and the soup outside is always bad.

Third, a plate of fried meat with winter bamboo shoots symbolizes "rising sun". Whether you like it or not, everyone should eat a little. The latter "harmonious dish" is mainly fried with day lily, dried bean curd, winter bamboo shoots, mushrooms and shredded pork. When the food is served, everyone should eat a little symbolically, especially brothers and sisters and mother-in-law. It seems that after eating this "harmonious dish", everything will be harmonious next year.

The New Year's Eve dinner lasts for two or three hours, during which the younger generation toasts the elder, and the elder also pours wine for the younger generation. By the way, if there is some targeted encouragement, red envelopes will be given to the younger generation. There is not much money in the red envelope, so it's good to have a heart. New Year's Eve is generally cooked a lot, and the big family does not burn red pots from the first day to the third day. After the New Year's Eve, there used to be no Spring Festival Gala without TV. Everyone sat quietly on the fire bucket, peeling peanuts and melon seeds that are rarely seen at ordinary times, eating fast-frozen rice candy and watching the New Year's Eve dinner with a smile. At night 10, it's time to meet the kitchen god. Adults came to the kitchen stove with the slogan "Heaven says yes, the lower bound is safe" and symbolically set off firecrackers.

Traditional customs, rules, taboos and so on.

New Year's Eve is approaching after all the houses in every household are completely decorated. Therefore, housewives are busy preparing the most abundant and meaningful reunion dinner in a year. A family reunion dinner, as its name implies, is a family gathering for dinner during the Chinese New Year, and even the deceased ancestors will not forget it. Therefore, after a good reunion dinner, every household should first "worship their husbands" (worship their ancestors). When offering sacrifices to ancestors, the incense burner representing ancestors should be removed from the shrine, put on the altar, and then burn incense to pray and invite ancestors to dinner. Then the old and the young bowed down in turn, fully demonstrating the traditional virtues of the hipsters, being cautious to the end, pursuing the distance, and putting all virtues first. After the sacrifice, the food for ancestor worship was reheated, and a big table was set in the hall, and the whole family gathered around. This is a wonderful time for every family to get together. No matter how far apart the family is at ordinary times, or how many zits there are at ordinary times, we should talk and laugh at this time, and we should not say anything sad or make noise.