The annual flavor of Spring Festival in Ji'nan: Lotus boxes, crisp pot and big thunder
deep fried year
Lu net January 30th news (reporter Liu Meiting) today is the new year's Eve, people have to remove the old new, in the last day to clean the house again It is intended for the next year for "the new year of the new year". In Ji'nan, although many customs of the new year have disappeared, some of them still remain after changing their faces. Today, the reporter interviewed Ms. Du of the public. Let us follow her footsteps and try the authentic "Ji'nan flavor".
fried lotus box, crisp pot Spring Festival traditional food "one flavor"
in Ji'nan, the pastry is the traditional Chinese New Year food. If we entertain guests at home, choose a few kinds of favorite crisp dishes, which is a unique cuisine, "fish crisp, sour and salty sweet, crystal crystal, amber like color" These 16 words reflect the color and flavor of the Ji'nan pot. "The pot wants meat and vegetables, like five flower meat, chicken, fish, lotus root, kelp, bean curd, Chinese cabbage and so on, put together, add rich ingredients, after a long time stew, a large pot of fragrant pots out of the oven." Ms. Du said.
the other traditional food is the fried lotus root box. In general, from the twenty-seven of the month of the moon, Ji'nan families will send out the "nourish" the sound of fried, accompanied by household fragrance, not to say that this is mostly people in the fried lotus box. The lotus root of North Garden in Ji'nan is the best raw material for frying lotus root box. The lotus root box fried is golden yellow and crispy and tender. "Not only the lotus root box, but also the fried pork and fried fish." When relatives visit friends during the past year of the new year, Ms. Du said, they often see children with oil in the corners of the mouth and run on the street. "For adults, the emphasis is not on eating, but in 'year's taste', but the fried lotus box and the crunchy pan can be said to be one. Home is a taste. "
is an important "annual event" activity on the eve of the new year's Eve for the ancestors "home"
in Ms. Du's home, anti-theft doors, indoor doors and walls are so big "occupied" on the wall. Spring Festival couplets and blessing words have always been an important "Year event" in Ji'nan. Especially in the past, as the old Jinan people lived in quadrangles, the Spring Festival couplets were not only posted on the gates, but also on the doors of the houses. In old Ji'nan, it was more essential to put up a blessing on the Spring Festival in the Spring Festival.
"on the eve of the new year's Eve reunion dinner, some Jinan people also welcomed their ancestors to" go home "for the tablet offering table. On the wall behind the table, there was a big family painting with the ancestral image. Ms. Du said that when you eat new year's Eve dinner and eat dumplings, you should respect your ancestors first. You should give your ancestors full wine before the new year's Eve dinner.
it will be the most exciting time of the year after eating the "big thunder" after eating the "big thunder", and it will be the most busy time of the year: the time of setting off the firecrackers is beginning. The strong smell of the year is permeated with this smell of gunpowder, and people's faces are full of festival festive, because the whip can drive away the animals and bring peace. The Jinan people like to call the medium-sized fireworks gun "big thunder son" very regional characteristics.
talking about firecrackers, you may not know that the Jinan people have their own rules. On the new year's Eve, the first day, the fifth and the fifteen of the year, we must set off firecrackers. No matter when to put the whip, it can only be done from the front door of the house, but do not run to the door of others. Ms. Du said that it would be more loud to set off in front of her own door. "Before the reunion dinner on New Year's Eve, we have to put a hang of firecrackers before eating. It means to tell the neighbors that our family has been reunited, everything is great, and we begin to 'celebrate the new year'.