New year food and food meaning < new year > food... New Year supper – lunar New Year's Eve evening, the Chinese meets the family reunion to eat the New Year supper together, also the name encircles the stove, origins all gathers round the stove to the ancient to eat meal. Encircles when the stove does not divide the old and young all together to eat, certainly had to wait till entire family in home's member to arrive in full has only then been possible to begin, also must for not be able to go home the family member which ate the family reunion dinner to suspend the tableware, expressed the family reunion, in the interpersonal relationship wandering modern society, the symbolic reunion New Year supper especially was important. The New Year supper must eat slowly is better, each type vegetables all must eat. Some several cooked foods, because includes propitious meaning, in the New Year supper is may not few, for example: "The long new year's dish" (leaf mustard) takes to eat the tail from the beginning, the year is long-lived can long for a very long time; "The radish" expresses the good good luck; "Entire chicken" symbolic family photo ("chicken" and "family" harmonics); Eats "the clam" and "is fat" the harmonics, takes it to put on weight meaning; Eats the fish pill, the shrimp pill, the meat pill, is refers to "Frist, Sencod, Thirt" meaning (namely foremost person in the field, Huiyuan). On the dinner table only has the fish not to be able to eat, expressed "has -odd meaning year after year". The stuffed dumpling – in first lunar month first day eats the stuffed dumpling, north part of our country, nearly each family so. This stuffed dumpling and year center other stuffed dumplings are dissimilar. This stuffed dumpling request lunar New Year's Eve evening wraps securely, midnight 12. starts to eat. Eats the stuffed dumpling is for take "the year old junction child" meaning. This custom starts in Ming Dynasty first year, original "hands over the child" the harmonics then evolution is "stuffed dumpling". First day daybreak, northerner each and every family eats the stuffed dumpling, in order to ask for auspicious, northerner often coin, sugar, shelled peanut, date and chestnut and so on and meat stuffing together Bao Chin new year stuffed dumpling. Eats the coin the person, the symbol new year gets rich; Eats the sugar the person expressed the next year day will be more delightful; Eats the shelled peanut symbol be in good health and so on. The lunar new year's cake – each place nearly all uses the river rice flour and the millet mounts the surface to make mounts the cake (also to be called lunar new year's cake), implication "is year after year high". Spring Festival eats food majority is in front of the festival prepares, the northerner mostly eats the steamed bun. South is first several days washes rice, the name calls "ten thousand years grain rice", the meaning has the surplus grain year after year. The lunar new year's cake also is Han Nationality new year necessary food. Makes the lunar new year's cake the grain to have many kinds of, each place method. Mounts the cake by Chiangnan's levigation to be most famous. North eats Bai Kaohuo the glutinous millet to mount the cake, southwest the national minority custom eats the glutinous rice cake.
新年食品及食品的含意 <新年>的食品... 年夜飯 – 除夕晚上,中國人會全家團圓一起吃年夜飯,又稱圍爐,起源於古人皆圍著爐子吃飯 。圍爐時不分長幼皆一起吃 ,在家的成員一定要等到全家到齊了才可動手,也要為未能回家吃團圓飯的家人擺碗筷,以表示全家團圓, 在人際關係流離的現代社會中,象徵團圓的年夜飯尤為重要 。年夜飯要吃得愈慢愈好 ,每樣菜都要吃一口。
有幾道菜肴 , 因含有吉祥意味,在年夜飯中是不可少的,如:「長年菜」(芥菜)要一根一根從頭吃到尾,年壽才能長長久久;「菜頭」表示好彩頭;「全雞」象徵全家福(「 雞 」與「 家 」 諧音) ;