What are the sixteen dishes in the menu of the New Year's Eve dinner?

Eating wonton in the New Year takes its original meaning. Legend has it that Pangu created the world, making "light and clear gas for the sky, heavy and turbid gas for the earth", ending the chaotic state, and the universe has four sides. Then take the homonym of "wonton" and "mud hoard" to indicate that the food is full.

2. jiaozi

It is one of the traditional foods in China. Also known as eating flat or cooking cakes. In ancient times, there were only wonton, not jiaozi. Later, wonton was made into a crescent shape and became jiaozi. In the Tang Dynasty, the habit of eating jiaozi had spread to the remote areas of China. On New Year's Eve, at 12: 11, we began to eat jiaozi, so this is a year's time, which means that the old and the new alternate, and it's time for a year.

3. Long noodles

Also known as longevity noodles, I wish you a long life. In ancient times, pasta was called cake, so noodle soup was also called soup cake at first. At first, the noodles did not roll or press, but were torn into pieces by hand in the pot, similar to the practice of "crow's head" and "monkey's ear" eaten in the north. It was not until the Tang Dynasty that noodles were rolled with chopping boards that long noodles, short noodles, dried noodles, plain noodles, meat noodles and dried noodles gradually appeared. ...

4. Rice cake

The custom of eating rice cakes during the Spring Festival originated in the Song Dynasty and flourished in the Ming Dynasty. Eating rice cakes, from the auspicious meaning of "sticky (sticky) high (cake) every year", is interpreted as the meaning of rising year by year.

5. Fish

Eating fish in the Spring Festival is exquisite, which means more than one year, so eating fish in the Spring Festival is the custom of the New Year.

6, white-cut chicken

The first thing to bear on a table of New Year's Eve is chicken. In addition to boiled chicken, you can also make chicken into other flavors according to your own preferences, such as sauce chicken.

7. Braised pork

As a traditional dish on the family table, braised pork means that the coming year will be full of prosperity and wealth. This famous dish is also an essential dish on New Year's Eve.

8. Shrimp

Shrimp is also an auspicious dish on the dinner table, such as boiled shrimp, fried shrimp and braised prawns. Shrimp means laughing every day, laughing every day. A shrimp in the New Year makes you laugh every year.

9. Pig hand

Pig hand means to get rich and everything goes well. So this dish is also an auspicious dish that everyone likes.

10, five blessings

Five Blessingg belongs to the menu of home cooking. Named after five healthy ingredients, such as mushrooms, vegetarian chicken, baked bran, day lily (day lily), quail eggs, five main ingredients, small red dates and medlar. There are also five flavors.

1 1, Sanyang (Yang) Kaitai

A delicious dish made of pork belly, pork leg and chicken leg. According to the Book of Changes, the yang is connected and the yin is broken. The first month is Tai, and Sanyang was born in summer. When winter goes and spring comes, yin disappears and yang grows, which is auspicious. Often used to praise the beginning of a year or to express good luck.

12, bacon sausage

This dish is not only these two kinds, but also pig's head, pig's tail, pig's mouth and so on, all of which can be smoked. The pig's head and tail imply a head and a tail.

13, four happy party balls

Braised lion head, a famous dish of Han nationality. It is a dish that China often eats on holidays. It is also known as the Four Happiness Festival, which means it is auspicious. This is a famous dish in Huaishang. The fat and thin meat is ruddy and shiny. With vegetables, it is bright in color and fragrant, which can arouse the appetite at a glance. Mellow meat and juice are irresistible top delicacies.

14, sweet and sour pork ribs

Sweet and sour pork ribs are representative traditional dishes in sweet and sour dishes. It uses fresh pork chops as seasoning, with fresh and tender meat, bright red and oily color and crisp and sweet taste, which is deeply loved by Jiangnan diners. "Sweet and sour" is the flavor of all the major cuisines in China. There are many diners who love this dish, and the brightly colored dishes are the most pleasing at New Year's Eve.

15, lettuce

Lettuce is homophonic with "making money" and is an essential vegetable for Chinese New Year. Put a golden pot sticker on it, and you will make money with gold bars.

16, Yuba

Yuba means "abundance" and is also an essential dish on New Year's Eve. We all know that yuba is a derivative of soybean. Experts pointed out that compared with soybean, yuba is more easily absorbed by human body and has richer nutritional value, so it is a good eating habit to eat some yuba regularly.