One question on junior high school language

In the old-style agrarian society, from about the eighth day of the lunar month, housewives would be busy preparing food for the New Year. Because it takes a long time to marinate lap-mei, it is important to start early. Many provinces in China have the custom of pickling cured meat, among which the cured meat of Guangdong Province is the most famous.

There are many kinds of cured meat, such as sausage, bacon, duck, preserved fish, chicken, liver, etc., even if you don't have pickled at home, you must buy one or two to respond. The way to eat bacon can be steamed and sliced, or mixed with garlic sprouts, chili peppers, or fried vegetables. In the busy New Year, lap-mei is the easiest and most delicious New Year's dish.

Just after marinating the cured meat, it's time to steam the rice cakes. Because of the homonym of high age, coupled with the variety of tastes, rice cakes have almost become a must-have food for every family. The style of the rice cake has a square-shaped yellow and white rice cake, symbolizing **, **:

There are also strip-shaped Ningbo and Fuzhou rice cakes, which imitate silver bars; It is all the meaning of making a fortune in the New Year in shape.

In many northern provinces, dumplings are also made during the Chinese New Year. Although dumplings have long been a popular daily snack in the north and south of the country. But dumplings eaten on Chinese New Year's Eve have a special meaning.

In the old days, it was timed by the dry branches of the heavens and the earth, and when the children were handed over as soon as the night of Chinese New Year's Eve was over, it was the latest moment of the new year, and it is said that eating dumplings at this time meant that the opening was good and everything was going well. And because at this moment is orthogonal, so eat dumplings homonym Jiaozi (time). In addition, because the dumplings resemble ingots, eating dumplings during the Chinese New Year especially has the auspicious meaning of "fortune and treasure".

Dumplings are made of flour and filled with a variety of contents. The traditional method is to stuff pork, beef and mutton, with Chinese cabbage, celery, leeks, radishes, melons and other vegetables. The new method can be used as a filling for delicacies from the mountains and seas, such as chicken, duck, carp, crab roe, crab meat, squid, abalone and shrimp'Sea cucumbers, shark fins, fish maw, dried scallops, lion's mane mushrooms, etc., can be filled.

The most orthodox way to eat dumplings is to cook them in clear water, and then eat them with soy sauce mixed with vinegar, minced garlic and sesame oil as condiments. There are also ways to eat fried dumplings and baked dumplings (pot stickers). In some areas of Henan and Shaanxi, dumplings are boiled and eaten together with noodles, called Jinsi Wear Yuanbao.

In Inner Mongolia and Northeast China, there are also people who put dumplings into white meat sauerkraut hot pot to cook, which has a unique flavor. In addition to the above common New Year's holiday foods, every housewife also has to dig out their hearts to cook a table of Chinese New Year's Eve meals that are full of color, fragrance and taste. In addition to paying attention to delicate and hearty New Year's dishes, good lip gloss is also a necessary condition.

For example, the New Year rice of the Peking people is boiled with yellow and white rice, called gold and silver rice, which is inserted with pine and cypress branches, and is decorated with money, dates, chestnuts, longan, etc. Jiangnan people use air-dried eggplant stems, mixed fruits and vegetables, and cook them into Anle dishes. When eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, you must first take a bite of comfort food.

Because of the homonym of fish, it is also an indispensable New Year's dish. Even in the north, which does not produce fish, a woodcarved fish should be placed on the table to match the occasion, so as to show that there is more than enough every year

Meaning: beautiful things cannot be stopped or extinguished, and the river of life will surely break through all kinds of obstacles and flow day after day and year after year.