Sichuan-Sichuan region

Sichuanese pay attention to color, fragrance and nutrition on New Year's Eve. Every dish on the New Year's Eve is full of meaning and auspicious colors.

1, bacon

As the name implies, bacon is bacon smoked in the twelfth lunar month. In the era when there was no cold storage method, curing, smoking and air drying were the best meat storage methods. Over time, it has become an indispensable appetizer for Sichuanese banquets. Every family in Sichuan cooks bacon, which can be eaten next year.

2, salty/sweet boiled white

Salty/sweet boiled white is an essential dish in Sichuan peasant banquet. The so-called "three steaming and nine buckles" is the focus of folk banquets, mainly steaming and stewing, which is affordable and fat. Simple and full cooking is the ultimate in eating meat. Without too many seasonings and procedures, what you eat is the original flavor of the meat.

3. Cold chicken nuggets

The tender chicken is soaked in red and bright Chili oil, which may have sesame seeds and peanuts on it. Take a bite and the fresh meat will spread in your mouth.

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Guangdong area

Delicious and rich to eat "well-intentioned." The Cantonese Restaurant's New Year's Eve dinner emphasizes good intentions. Chicken, fish, shrimp, stir-fried diced meat, pork hands, oyster sauce, lettuce, etc. are bound to appear on the dining table, which means "more than one year", "a hundred flowers bloom", "a prosperous population" and "abundant financial resources", which can be described as a meaningful dish.

1, stewed Nostoc flagelliforme in oyster sauce.

"Getting rich" is essential at the dinner table of Guangzhou people's New Year's Eve. In fact, it refers to stewed pork hands with Nostoc flagelliforme and oyster sauce. Nostoc flagelliforme or lettuce both mean "making a fortune" and "making money" in Cantonese. And "oyster sauce" has the homonym of "good thing". "Pig hand" means "hands-on", which means handy. Names and dishes must be auspicious. Cantonese people are very particular about it.

2, chestnut peanut chicken soup

In addition to good intentions, the "head soup" of the New Year is also nutritious. As the saying goes, "Nuts are tender", Chinese medicine believes that chestnuts are the best for kidney deficiency and waist and leg weakness. Hard-shelled nuts have an excellent effect on human growth and development, strengthening physique and preventing diseases. The soup is sweet and delicious, the chestnuts are nourishing and mellow, and the chicken is delicious and tender.

3, white-cut chicken

Sweet water chicken is the first of the "top ten famous dishes" in Guangzhou. Qingyuan chicken is the staple food. Scallops, carrots and other materials are cooked to taste, soaked in the whole chicken and cooked together. The product is crisp and smooth, and even the bones are delicious. With special condiments such as ginger and garlic, it can best reflect the characteristics of Cantonese cuisine, which is clear but not light, fresh but not vulgar, tender but not raw. It is a necessary dish for festivals.

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southern Fujian

In southern Fujian, New Year's Eve is commonly known as "Niandou", and eating New Year's Eve is also called "surrounding the kitchen". On this day, no matter whether the traffic is convenient or not, no matter whether it is far away, the wanderers in a foreign land will strive to get back to their hometown to "surround the stove". There is a proverb in southern Fujian: "If you don't go home in Qingming (or winter solstice), you will have no ancestors, and if you don't go home in the next year, you will have no wife." No matter how busy you are at ordinary times, at the end of the year, it is the most important drama for the whole family to get together for a reunion dinner.

1, spiced strips

Spiced strip is a famous spot in southern Fujian, with unique flavor, which can be used as a table or wine. Spiced strips are mainly pork belly, or beef is added according to taste, cut into rectangular small pieces, mixed with diced flat fish, shallots and water chestnuts, evenly mixed with potato powder, monosodium glutamate, soy sauce and spiced powder, then rolled into strips with bean skin, fried to golden brown, taken out and cut into small pieces, and served on a plate. Dipped in various seasonings, it tastes fragrant, crisp and crisp.

2.hematoma

There is a distinctive custom of blood clams in southern Fujian, which means making a fortune in the coming year. There is a saying that "clams make a lot of money with shells". It is said that clams are ancient coins. Therefore, there is a custom in southern Fujian to wash the leftover clams and scatter them under the table or bed until the fifth day. The common way to eat is to soak the cleaned blood sputum in water and dip it in garlic soy sauce vinegar.

3. Hotpot

The main course of Minnan New Year's Eve dinner is steaming hot pot. The family gathered around the fire, facing the dining tables, speaking out of turn, but it was also warm and sultry. The original stove was similar to the current hot pot, including tin stove, pottery stove and copper stove. The food cooked in the furnace is the food after offering sacrifices to the ancestors and gods. Put the sacrificial food into the pot and cook it together to form a hodgepodge. Then everyone eats and chats around the stove and gets together, which also means a family photo.

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Hunan-Jiangxi region

In contrast, the New Year's Eve dinner in Jiangxi, Hunan is not too complicated, and most of them are home-cooked meals. In terms of quantity, we usually choose four, six and eight dishes according to the number of people in our family, which means that a picky family like yes man prefers to choose ten or twelve dishes, which means perfection and looks forward to all the best in the coming year.

1, chopped fish head with pepper

In the traditional customs of China, there must be a dish on the dining table in many places, and that is fish! In Hunan's traditional practice, chopped peppers are used to accompany fish, which means that the New Year is prosperous, and it is more and more year by year.

2. Braised meat with plum vegetables

Speaking of braised pork with plum vegetables, it has appeared on many occasions. Especially during the Chinese New Year, it has become an indispensable classic dish at the dinner table because of its festive atmosphere and more prosperous implication. The braised pork in this dish is smooth and mellow, fat but not greasy, and the plum dish is fragrant and very popular with everyone.

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Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai areas

Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai dishes are famous for their delicacies, and at the New Year's Eve dinner, the metropolis tried its best to arrange a table full of Chinese and Korean dishes. Set the round table, and then have dinner with friends and family. Their Chinese New Year customs are simple and simple, but they can also be varied and complicated. Of course, they can't live without those famous dishes in the end.

1, sweet and sour mandarin fish

There is always a fish on the dinner table on New Year's Eve, which means "more than one year". Sweet and sour mandarin fish, a famous dish in the south of the Yangtze River, bears the brunt. The sauce on the fish is attractive in color, sweet and sour, appetizing, and many people love this taste.

2. Vegetarian Roasted Goose

Vegetarian roast goose is familiar to everyone ~ friends who have been to Jiangsu and Zhejiang can see this famous snack in almost all streets and alleys. Generally, it is made of bean curd skin from Fuyang, Hangzhou, which is as thin as cicada's wings and soft in taste. After seasoning, it is wrapped in layers, steamed first and then fried, which looks like roast goose.

3, three fresh copper pot

In the early days, almost every family in Hangzhou had a warm-hearted pot, which was the kind of pot used by northerners to rinse mutton. Meatballs, egg dumplings, fish balls, fur, leeks, clams, belly slices, meat slices and other "high-grade ingredients" at that time were all cooked in one pot. The wood stove charcoal used for cooking is burned under the heart-piercing pot. The "high-end home cooking" that is almost necessary for New Year's Eve and New Year's Eve is this "three fresh copper pot".

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Anhui area

Jixi in southern Anhui is the "hometown of Anhui cuisine". The local traditional New Year's Eve dinner is called "ten bowls and eight dishes", which means ten hot dishes and eight cold dishes. Every dish has a special meaning and a lot of attention. The first dish in the "Ten Bowls" must be chicken, and it is the whole stewed chicken. The head of a chicken should face its parents, which means good luck. The last course of braised fish should also be whole fish, which means it has been more than a year.

1, stewed whole chicken

Anhui cuisine pays attention to roasting, stewing, stewing and steaming. It is often cooked with whole chicken, whole duck, whole pigeon and whole turtle, and it also comes from nourishing and keeping in good health. And the original flavor is the biggest feature of Anhui cuisine! Stewed chicken whole chicken is based on mountain stream stone chicken. The soup is crystal clear, the meat is tender and delicious, the steaming method is original, and the fragrance is attractive.

2. Huangshan osmanthus fish

Mandarin fish, a famous dish in Huizhou, is indispensable for New Year's Eve! After the cooked osmanthus fish came out of the tank, its cheeks were still red, the scales did not peel off, and its quality did not change, but its skin gave off a special smell that looked smelly but not smelly. However, after washing, it is not only delicious, but also delicious to fry it in hot oil and cook it on low heat. It is a fine dish, and this dish has become a model of Anhui cuisine! It is said that if you don't eat osmanthus fish, you won't eat Anhui cuisine.

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Shandong area

Shandong people's "New Year" is very lively. In a broad sense, New Year's Eve means eating and drinking before the 15th of June. Every year in the twelfth lunar month, every household begins to steam cakes, cook new year's dishes, and make jiaozi and crispy rice, all of which are the specialty dishes of Shandong people's New Year's Eve.

1, crispy pot

Crispy rice is a famous traditional snack in Jinan and Boshan, Zibo, and it is also a traditional flavor dish for entertaining guests during the Spring Festival. During the Chinese New Year, we set up a gas stove at home, cooked a pot of crispy pot, and watched the fragrance rise slowly, which was very tasty.

2. Uncle Jiaodong

Jiaodong big steamed bread is three or four times larger than ordinary steamed bread, hand-made, with different shapes and delicious nutrition. In Shandong, the most interesting thing about Chinese New Year is to eat that fat cake for nothing. The New Year's Eve dinner is steaming, and I look forward to the steaming and booming next year. Around the twelfth lunar month, families began to steam cakes until the end of the year. Every family steamed a lot, so there is no need to cook spaghetti in the first month.

3. China New Year dishes

"Chinese New Year Cuisine" is the representative of Shandong New Year Cuisine. This dish is simple to make, and the ingredients are common. It is simple and delicious to put pig blood, tofu, pork, cabbage and vermicelli in a pot and stew them with various home-cooked seasonings. The origin of this dish is related to the old life of Shandong people. In the past, Shandong people were not rich, so they couldn't bear to throw away the leftovers, so they cooked them together, so this "Chinese New Year dish" came into being.

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the Northeast area

Northeasters' New Year's Eve dinner is as rich as people's. They all drink and eat meat in big bowls. They never eat New Year's Eve. There must be big fish and big meat on the Spring Festival menu. In addition, there are refreshing cold dishes, exquisite hot dishes and dessert.

1, pot meat

Pot-wrapped meat is a dish originated from the northeast meat stuffing cake, but now it is made of sliced meat, with starch made of potatoes wrapped outside and fried in oil, so it is also called "pot-wrapped meat", which is crisp and sweet on the outside and tender on the inside ~

2. Pork stewed vermicelli

A song that was once popular in Xue Cun made many people know about pork stewed vermicelli in Northeast China. In fact, stewed pork vermicelli is also one of the most important dishes in Northeast China's New Year's Eve dinner. The vermicelli used is made of potato starch, a specialty of Northeast China, which is fragrant and warm.

3. Stewed white meat and blood sausage with sauerkraut

Sauerkraut is as important to Northeast China as bacon is to Hunan people. Northeasters began to prepare when they entered the twelfth lunar month, and stewed the sauerkraut that Northeasters often ate with pork belly and blood sausage. Generally, the second meal will be better! This kind of pickled cabbage stewed with white meat and blood sausage is also known as pig-killing dish.