What do the four kinds of fruits and dried fruits mean on the table during the Chinese New Year???

In this breakfast, there is a special custom of the southerners for the New Year. (The so-called ten miles of different winds, a hundred miles of different customs, friends who don't know this custom don't need to be surprised.) If there is a difference, everyone is welcome to come together to greet each other.

What customs? It's easy to say. It was this breakfast that had to be cooked by the head of the family.

When I was a child, I heard my mother tell me that the reason why the men in the family wanted to cook breakfast on the first day of the Lunar New Year was mainly because the housewives had been cooking for their families for a year and had not stopped. If a beggar takes three days off for the New Year, why can't housewives enjoy the right to one annual leave? But men generally can't keep an eye on the main stove, and they only have the share of making Chinese New Year's Eve dinners.

Then I had to choose a simple project--- make breakfast on the first day of the new year, to make it simple. It is also fully considered that most men do not know how to cook, so the breakfast on the first day of the new year is a finished product. In advance, the woman has prepared a steamer of steamed buns, fat cakes, rice cakes, etc., and the man only needs to put it in the pot and steam it for ten minutes in the morning, without any technical content.

But this matter is not simple, but it is very significant. It embodies the cultural tradition of mutual consideration and respect between husband and wife. Now the situation may have changed, there are more men who can cook and cook, and women have become a vulnerable group in the kitchen.

It used to be said that women have to be able to go to the hall and go down to the kitchen. Nowadays, women generally only go to the mall, not the kitchen. But no matter how women change, the custom of men getting up early to make breakfast on the first day of the new year has not changed (and it is estimated that it is not easy to change).

While making breakfast is relatively simple, some of the other preparations are more complicated. The housekeeper who is in charge of making breakfast usually gets up around five o'clock. Clean the courtyard of the house inside and out, and then use several fruit bowls to hold peanuts, melon seeds, fruits and other snacks and put them on the table.

Then go to the kitchen and boil a pot of boiling water for later use, preferably with a fire for breakfast. After breakfast is made, a teacup with a lid (usually only used when guests arrive) is used to make a cup of tea with sugar for each member of the family. After the family washes up, they first sit together to drink tea and eat some dried fruits, say some auspicious words for the New Year, and ask for some luck for the new year.

After about ten minutes, put away the snacks on the table, and then serve the steamed breakfast, and the family has a delicious meal. The new year has begun. For housewives, in addition to not making breakfast on the first day of the new year, there is also a custom that they do not wash clothes on the first day of the new year.

A woman who washes clothes on this day will not be seen as diligent, but will be considered lazy. The clothes that should be washed must be done in Chinese New Year's Eve, and must not be left for the next year. One more point.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the northerners are busy paying New Year's greetings to their elders early in the morning, but the southerners (some) only go up the mountain to pay New Year's greetings to the deceased old people on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and they only start to visit relatives on the second day of the new year. Not to mention that China's culture is broad and profound, every bit of it is so connotative.

The main thing is, of course, candy, followed by seasonal fruits and nuts like melon seeds, peanuts, and pistachios. Then there are alcoholic beverages and cigarettes.

Almost put some small oranges or something, as well as melon seeds and peanuts, after all, there are many people, if the economy is good, you can put more expensive dried fruits.

Apples, cigarettes, sugar, melon seeds and peanuts, two bottles of liquor, 4 square beer, and two large bottles of Pepsi Cola are the kind of drinks. That's pretty much it!

Generally, it is some fruits, melon seeds, and sugar cubes. Bananas, apples are common. This one is nothing special, nothing special on the other side.

Fruit: Apple, meaning peace.

There must be sugar, I like sugar, someone will give it.

Apples, bananas, melon seeds, peanuts, and pistachios if possible.

Put apples, peanuts, melon seeds, candy, cigarettes.

Melon seeds, sugar, peanuts, and cigarettes, we're all there.

Fruits and dried fruits, like sugar should be placed.

Jujube longan metamorphosis lotus seeds, walnuts and apples, and the early birth of a noble son is beautiful and peaceful.

Generally, it is necessary to level fruits, oranges, bananas, melon seeds, peanuts, etc.

Usually it's fresh fruit, but there are also dried ones.

Apples, dates, longan, peanuts, lotus seeds.

It depends on your own local customs, and the customs of each place are different.