New Year’s Eve dinner is the Family reunion dinner, this meal is also the most ritualistic and important dinner of the year.
Whether you are a busy housewife or a hometown traveler, you want to celebrate the New Year by cooking a dish of your choice at this meal.
Due to different living habits, the custom of New Year’s Eve dinner is naturally very different in the north and south. But no matter what dishes are on the New Year’s Eve dinner table, the taste on the tongue is the taste of Home.
Dumplings vs. dumplings
As the saying goes: “Southern dumplings, northern dumplings. “
For northerners, less dumplings, it is not called the New Year.
Then in the south, the New Year is indispensable is the Soup dumplings.
In the north
Dumplings are called “jiaozi”, which means “to welcome the new year”. Dumplings are eaten on New Year’s Eve because of the harmonic sound “new year dumplings”.
Dumplings resemble Yuanbao, so eating dumplings also means prosperity, rich and wealthy. Even in some northern families, a coin will be wrapped in one of the dumplings, who ate “coin-filled” dumplings means that this year’s fortune will be very good.
Southern
Soup dumplings have the meaning of reunion, so in many places in the south on the first day of the New Year will eat a bowl of hot soup dumplings, which means that the family reunion good.
Types of dishes from North and South
Southern
From the point of view of the types of dishes, the South’s New Year’s Eve dinner is more sumptuous, although the variety of dishes, but the amount of each dish will not be a lot, many coastal cities will also put on a few seafood cheer.
The North
Unlike the south, the northern New Year’s Eve dinner, although the dishes are relatively small, but the amount of each dish is very real, big mouthful of meat, big mouthful of wine, is the embodiment of the people of the north’s bravado.
The difference between the northern and southern cuisines
Because of China’s vast territory, the North and South in the choice of cuisine also has a small difference.
The South
In the South, the New Year’s Eve dinner is usually a hot dish, big fish and meat, sausage and bacon together on the table, and then add a bowl of rice, the taste is twice as good!
North
In the north, it is cold dishes to start, followed by hot dishes, but you think that’s all? Of course, the dumplings should be the finale!
Yearly “fish”
Although there are so many differences between the north and the south, but I can say for sure, regardless of the north and south, almost every family’s New Year’s Eve dinner table has a fish.
Fish and “Yu” harmonic, a plate of fish on the table also means “The fish is a symbol of good luck.
Fish is a symbol of good fortune, as the saying goes, “no fish is not a dinner”, whether steamed or braised, the New Year’s Eve dinner in the north and south must be missing is the figure of fish.
When all the dishes were served, we raised our glasses and celebrated together, and the taste of New Year came home.
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