Chapter 65: Celebrating the New Year
Not long after Huang Yong left, Liu Qianqian ushered in the first Spring Festival in this world.
Chinese New Year refers to the "New Year's Festival", which is now called the "Spring Festival".
The New Year is mainly to remove the old cloth and the new, worship the gods and ancestors, drive away evil spirits and disasters, and pray for blessings and blessings, with rich and colorful forms, lively and festive, and rich New Year's flavor, which embodies the essence of traditional culture of Chinese civilization.
According to the old custom, from the end of the year on the twenty-third/twenty-fourth day of the twelfth month of the year to the night of the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month or the nineteenth day of the first month, the period of nearly one month is called "New Year", that is, the "Spring Festival period"; if it is calculated from the preparation of "New Year's goods", it will enter the New Year from December 156 at the end of the year.
Led by the 100th year, the Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation, which not only embodies the Chinese nation's ideological beliefs, ideals and aspirations, life entertainment and cultural psychology, but also is a carnival display of blessings, disasters, food and entertainment activities. During the Spring Festival, various New Year's celebrations are held all over the country, and there are differences in the content or details of customs due to different regional cultures, with strong regional characteristics.
Liu Qianqian followed the Liu family and spent the first Spring Festival in this world, two hundred years later, the Spring Festival is still strong, but the flavor of the New Year is not as strong as it is now, and even only one form is left, which is a little tasteless, but this year, it has made her experience another atmosphere of traditional Chinese civilization, and also let her realize the warm expectations of the Chinese people for the Spring Festival.
Eating dumplings during the Chinese New Year is a custom of northerners. Hei Province is one of the three northeastern provinces, Dashantun is located in the northernmost part of Hei Province, which naturally continues the customs left by the ancestors.
Northeast folk have the habit of keeping the New Year on Chinese New Year's Eve. On the evening of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, you must eat dumplings, and among the many dumplings, only a few with coins are wrapped, and whoever eats such dumplings indicates good luck and auspiciousness in the new year.
In addition, Northeast people must eat dumplings on the day of the "fifth day of the new year", also known as "broken five", that is, to bite the dumplings, which means that the unlucky things will be damaged, and there is the meaning of driving away disasters and avoiding evil.
Eat frozen pears after Chinese New Year's Eve.
Due to the cold weather in the Northeast, some fruits have a different taste after they have been frozen. The most common are ice pears and frozen persimmons.
According to acquaintance, the purest is frozen autumn pear, there is a kind of pear called autumn pear in the north, this kind of pear is just picked down the time is sour and astringent, so people pick this pear directly under the tree, cover with a layer of leaves, after the freezing of the autumn pear is sweet and sour, the juice is rich.
Frozen pears should be thawed in water before eating, and eating this pear after a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner can relieve hangover and relieve oiliness.
Chinese New Year's Eve light longevity lamp.
Northeast people will light longevity lamps on the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and it will be bright tonight. From the 30th day of the Chinese New Year's Eve to the 15th Lantern Festival of the first month, every household must hang red lanterns, and at night they must light the lanterns, and they must stay overnight, and the lights cannot be turned off, which means that life is prolonged and incense is not stopped.
Northeast people usually can't cut their hair before the New Year to the New Moon of February of the summer calendar, if they cut their hair will kill (die) their uncle, so that Northeast people are very secretive of this, no one will cut their hair in the New Year.
"On the second day of February, the dragon is on its back", which shows that it will be very auspicious for people to cut their hair on the second day of the second month of February, so many people will compete to cut their hair on this day to ask for good luck.
The above are some of the customs of the New Year that Liu Qianqian got from the depths of the original memory, and the Liu family is also very important to the Spring Festival, as early as after Laba, began to prepare the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner for the Spring Festival, in fact, in Dashantun, the New Year will generally be spent in the old man's home, whether it is divided or not, meaning family and everything is prosperous.
However, since severing the relationship with the old house, Liu Chengshuan's family has kept vigil alone and has never been to the old house, after all, it is not a good place to go, and the family is happy to stay together!
On the thirtieth day, Liu Qianqian helped Liu Cheng to tie the Spring Festival, Wang Cuiju and Zhao Xiujuan were together to Zhang Luo Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner was very rich, now every family is better than before, Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is naturally regular, basically all hard dishes from the northeast.
Thinking of the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Liu Qianqian couldn't help but swallow her saliva, because she had already smelled the fragrance from the kitchen, and there was a pork sent by Huang Yong this year, which was definitely the richest Chinese New Year's Eve meal in Dashantun.
Braised pork knuckle is one of the home-cooked recipes, with peanuts as the main ingredient, and the cooking technique of braised pork knuckle is mainly braised pork knuckle. In the Northeast, there must be a plate of pig's hands on the New Year's table, which means "holding money" rake, gnawing a piece of pig's trotters during the New Year, and prosperous fortune in the New Year!
Northeast elbow, elbow fragrance wafting, delicious and refreshing. Choose a fresh elbow with thin skin and small pores, remove the bones, and trim into a round peach shape. With the skin of the elbow facing up, put it in a five-spice brine pot and heat it, and cook until it is ripe and remove it. Fry the elbow and take it out, put it in a bowl, add green onion and ginger, pour some water with braised soup, pour it into the bowl, and steam it in the upper drawer. There must be a big elbow on the table on Chinese New Year's Eve, which means "walking words"! Fat but not greasy big elbows, whether they are dipped in garlic sauce or eaten with an empty mouth, taste very good.
Sauerkraut white meat blood sausage, sauerkraut white meat blood sausage is a delicacy made of sauerkraut and other ingredients, and it is delicious. Northeast people must have sauerkraut and white meat on the table, with sauerkraut, pork, vermicelli, and then cut a thin blood sausage. The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is a hot one, and the hot sauerkraut makes the atmosphere of family reunion even more enthusiastic!
Chicken stew with mushrooms is a Northeast stew. It is usually made with dried mushrooms, chicken and vermicelli. Hazel mushrooms bring out the flavor of the chicken, and the vermicelli is smooth and creamy. The chicken stew with mushrooms is tender and has a high nutritional value.
This dish is the taste of eating! The Chinese New Year's stew is generally a small stupid chicken in the countryside, a free-range chicken, it tastes fat and tender and delicious, and it will be deboned when you bite it, and the "chicken" is the same as "auspicious", which means auspicious and wishful. The mushrooms are made of wild hazelnut mushrooms in the mountains, so the taste is "positive"!
Braised fish: Fish is not only delicious, but also highly nutritious. The dish that will be there during the New Year is fish, and even the way to eat it is exquisite, and the fish can not be eaten, so you must ask for a good fortune of "more than every year".
Pork stewed vermicelli is one of the representatives of Northeast cuisine, rich in characteristic Northeast flavor dishes, loved by people in the north and south. Pork stewed vermicelli is the first stew of the "Four Great Stews in the Northeast", which is smooth: pork stewed vermicelli, hungry to the howl of wild wolves. As the saying goes, turnips and cabbage have their own love.
Due to the different tastes of each family, the dish of pork stewed vermicelli has also derived countless different ingredients, while retaining the advantages of pork stewed vermicelli dishes, it has also derived some dishes with richer flavors.
"Mother, the food you and your sister-in-law cook is so delicious!"
Liu Qianqian rubbed her hands and looked at the big fish and meat on it, she couldn't wait to eat them all in one bite, and there are many dishes in the back, although they are not as good as these hard dishes, but they are definitely delicious, thinking of this, Liu Qianqian felt that her rebirth was simply too perfect, and sure enough, God thinks that people like her should continue to live, and live in the happiest moment!
"It's delicious, you can eat more!"
"Thank you, mother!"