Although people's pace of life is faster and their living standards have improved, it is also an indispensable tradition for Huaguo-people to have a reunion dinner on Chinese New Year's Eve every year. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

How to eat reunion dinners in other places, Rao Mingyang doesn't know. But in Mae Tan, it is not really until the 30th night of the month of the month that the family eats Chinese New Year's Eve.

The custom of Mae Tan is that from the 27th and 28th of the lunar month, several families close to each other in a family begin to line up, and each family holds a reunion dinner, and then dozens of people of a family of all ages eat a reunion dinner together.

The greater the number of people, the more prosperous and united the family is.

This is the real family Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.

In Rao's famous family, the grandparents have passed away, and the father's generation lives close to the eldest uncle, the third uncle, the eldest Rao Dexin, and a cousin and four families, adding up to more than 30 people.

The uncle is the oldest, although he didn't say it explicitly, but he can be considered the current head of the Rao family. Therefore, the Chinese New Year's Eve meal of the uncle's family was kept last, and the real Chinese New Year's Eve meal of the Chinese New Year's Eve Chinese New Year's Eve night was eaten at the uncle's house.

Then, after discussion, the lunch on the 29th of the lunar month was eaten at Rao Mingyang's third uncle's house, and dinner was eaten at Rao Mingyang's house. On the thirtieth day of the lunar month, lunch was eaten at the uncle's house, and dinner was eaten at the uncle's house.

To prepare a reunion dinner for dozens of people, it is natural to prepare in advance.

In the past, this reunion dinner was mainly based on his mother Tian Wenying, with Rao Dexin and Rao Mingyang starting out.

However, this year, Rao Mingyang took the initiative to take over this job. Because he already has the level of a senior chef, it is definitely not a problem to hold a reunion dinner, and it will definitely make the family happy and satisfied.

In the past six months, Rao Mingyang has occasionally fried dishes a few times, and Tian Wenying knew that Rao Mingyang's cooking skills were indeed booming now, so he agreed.

On the morning of the 29th of the lunar month, Rao Mingyang drove his BMW to the street to buy vegetables.

By now, many part-time workers and workers have returned to their hometowns to buy vegetables on the street to hold reunion dinners and buy New Year's goods.

Rao Mingyang walked around the vegetable market, but couldn't find a parking space, so he could only park far away, and then went to the vegetable market to buy vegetables with a basket on his back.

It took more than 2 hours for Rao Mingyang to buy all the required chicken, duck, fish, meat, and vegetable ingredients, and filled a full basket with more than 30 catties.

Fortunately, Rao Mingyang's physical fitness is now extraordinary, and there is no pressure to squeeze around in the crowded crowd in the vegetable market with more than 30 pounds of things on his back.

After buying vegetables and returning home, it was almost 11 o'clock, and the third uncle's family called to call for dinner, Rao Mingyang and his parents closed the door and went to the third uncle's house.

When I arrived at the third uncle's house, there were already a lot of people in the family, and Rao Mingyang greeted them one by one.

"Uncle!" "Auntie!" "Second sister-in-law!" "Third brother!" Shouting all the way.

Of course, there are also nephews and nieces who are a generation younger than Rao Mingyang, and they are basically the children of several cousins and cousins.

"Uncle!" "Uncle!" "Uncle Cousin!" "Uncle!" "Uncle!"

Rao Mingyang also responded with a smile one by one, some of whom were reading, and they also cared about their learning.

After the dishes were fried, the three uncles and their families first paid tribute to the gods and ancestors of the Rao family under the incense frame of the hall and the heaven and earth monarchs, set off firecrackers, burned some dark coins, and then the family began to eat the reunion dinner.

There were more than 30 people in the four families, and three tables were set, and some half-grown children had no stools to sit on, so they could only eat standing up.

But a family usually does its own thing, and almost only by having a reunion dinner during the New Year can it get together so neatly and so lively. Even if they were crowded to eat, everyone ate happily and lively.

For children, not only is it the most lively and fun time to eat the reunion dinner, but also the time when the elders give out New Year's money after eating the reunion dinner.

After the meal was almost finished, the third uncle and the third aunt took out red envelopes and began to give New Year's money to several children.

However, those who can get the New Year's money are still studying or children under the age of 6, and people like Rao Mingyang, who have graduated and entered the society, do not need to give red envelopes to children.

However, instead of giving red envelopes to children, you should give the elderly a little filial piety.

Therefore, after the third uncle and the third aunt sent the children's New Year's money, several cousins of the younger generation such as Rao Mingyang and cousins who had worked but had not yet married also took out the red envelopes that had been prepared and gave them to the third uncle and aunt.

In previous years, Rao Mingyang was given 500 per person, but this year he made a lot of money with the food system, and his filial piety to his elders was much more generous. He sealed a red envelope of 2,000 yuan for the third uncle and the third aunt, and the other elders also gave it the same.

Of course, you can't give too much. It's too different from other cousins and cousins of the same generation, it's not good, it's a bit of a nouveau riche nature. Honor your elders and do your best.

After the reunion dinner at the third uncle's house, the others were still chatting, playing cards, and watching TV at the third uncle's house, while Rao Mingyang and his parents returned home and began to prepare their family's reunion dinner.

With the support of a level 3 King Kong body, Rao Mingyang doesn't know how to be tired at all. He was in charge, his parents occasionally helped, and by 5 o'clock in the afternoon, Rao Mingyang had made three tables of sumptuous reunion dinners.

Buckle bowl, sour soup fish, sauerkraut folded ear root, big bone radish soup, spicy chicken, stir-fried duck, sauce fried meat, cabbage back to the pot meat, green pepper fried meat, three fresh soup, cold cucumber, tomato scrambled eggs, meat foam tofu, fish-flavored eggplant, steamed sausage, black bean bacon, steamed hooves, etc., more than 20 dishes per table, quite sumptuous.

With so many dishes, you can't eat them all. But Mei Tan is this custom, when every family holds a family New Year's dinner, they are doing more, and there must be a surplus, which means "more than every year".

If there is really a family reunion dinner that eats all the dishes, or even not enough to eat, it will not only be considered a pick, but also feel unlucky.

Rao Mingyang naturally won't destroy this custom, anyway, he is not tired, and his cooking skills are also passable, so he just needs to get more. As long as you know how to do it, you can get it out.

When the meal was almost done, he called the other three families to come to his house for a reunion dinner.

The procedures for the New Year are the same, after setting off firecrackers, burning incense and paper, and honoring the ancestors and gods, the family begins to eat reunion dinner.

Before starting to eat, except for a few underage children, Rao Mingyang poured everyone a glass of wolfberry medicinal wine that he had brewed.

After almost ten days of soaking and the effect of wolfberry medicinal wine powder, plus the liquor used itself is a relatively high-end loose liquor in Moutai Town, as soon as the famous medicinal wine was taken out, a strong aroma of wine began to spread in the house.