Zhejiang Propaganda ｜ How does New Year’s Eve soothe people’s hearts？
In the booming Spring Festival holiday, the New Year’s Eve dinner is undoubtedly the highlight.
When the New Year’s bell is about to ring, people treat themselves with the delicious food on the New Year’s Eve. On the dining table, whether it is the taste of fish, the taste of sea, the taste of bacon or the taste of rice cakes, it is the taste of home.
In China, the word "reunion" has always been the key word for New Year’s Eve, from street neighborhoods to rural buildings. It is precisely because of the "family reunion" that the New Year’s Eve dinner has the power to soothe people’s hearts.
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It is written in A Dream of Red Mansions that on New Year’s Eve, Jia’s family will hold a banquet to meet each other, and the whole family will sit together happily. Then, "Tu Su wine, acacia soup, auspicious fruit, wishful cake" will be served, and the lines are filled with the joy of the New Year.
Rich products and superb cooking skills make the food from all over the world bloom differently on the dinner table. Seafood in the southeast, delicacies in the southwest, cattle and sheep in the north, and pasta in the west all have different tastes, which makes the New Year’s Eve dinner a family.
On the issue of what to eat at the New Year’s Eve dinner, Zhejiang people have their own opinions: Ningbo people have to roast crabs with red paste on holidays, Shaoxing people have a "nail house" to stir up frozen meat in the New Year’s Eve dinner, and sauce duck is the favorite of Hangzhou people at the New Year’s Eve dinner …
How can there be no "Jade Liquid Joan Su Zuoshou Cup" when the dishes are tasted five times? If the New Year’s Eve dinner is the ultimate family dinner, then wine is the soul of the New Year’s Eve dinner. Writer Feng Jicai once recalled that one year, in order not to miss the New Year’s Eve dinner, he pedaled his bicycle all over the city to find wine, and finally found a bottle of wine in a small grocery store. This bottle of wine, which he has been thinking about for a long time, is regarded as the crowning touch in the family banquet.
The New Year’s Eve dinner has a different name in Wenzhou-"Fennian wine", and ten tall bowls are filled with ten kinds of cold dishes, which is "perfect". On Shaoxing people’s New Year’s Eve dinner table, amber yellow rice wine warmed with a tin hip flask is indispensable, and a sip of fennel beans is taken, and the warmth suddenly comes to mind.
It is said that the fireworks in the world are the most touching to the hearts of ordinary people. In the internet age, the fireworks of the New Year are on the line. In the circle of friends, I put a few beautiful pictures of the New Year’s Eve dinner, coupled with a beautiful copy and rows of praises. The warmth of my home spreads in the air, and there is no future. At this time, one party’s dining table has become a competition venue, where different regional cuisines "compete".
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Why is the New Year’s Eve especially worrying and memorable? What makes this meal have soothing power? Among them, there are nothing more than three flavors.
It begins with the taste of hometown.The flavor of hometown always extends in the memory and dreams of wanderers, inspiring deep attachment to hometown. The fresh and salty sauce duck, the smooth glutinous rice and sweet glutinous rice dumplings, the oily but not greasy braised pork with dried plum vegetables, and the fresh and spicy fish head with chopped peppers all have their own local flavor, or thick oil red sauce, or fresh and refreshing, or the combination of fresh and salty, which makes people’s mouths salivate and captures people’s hearts and stomachs. The bittersweet taste is experienced in the daily training, but at this moment it returns to the same taste-the taste of hometown.
During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, Liang Shiqiu, a writer, was in the rear of Chongqing. What came to mind was the bean juice and candied haws in his hometown of Beiping. Even the peddler’s cries along the street, once he closed his eyes, seemed to be in his ear. Homesickness makes the meaning of New Year’s Eve even more precious.
Loyal to the taste of reunion.Family members sit around, and affection overflows. After all the water in Qian Shan, it is still the smell of home that makes people cry. Wipe away the dust, and make friends with each other. Those concerns and greetings that have been accumulated for a year can always be unloaded at this moment.
Today, the material life has been greatly enriched, and the New Year’s Eve dinner may not be much different from the usual meals. People are no longer as obsessed with the Chinese New Year’s delicious food as before, but the meaning of this meal is quite different. Even though there are many different kinds of jade dishes outside, at this moment, they can’t match a table of home-cooked meals for family reunion. In many people’s minds, even in the biting cold season, the hot air rising from the dinner table at home can dispel the chill of winter and awaken the spirit.
In the flavor of hope.The New Year’s Eve dinner, which is full of emotions and implications, is a necessary ceremony for people to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. The common scenery between heaven and earth, the native land and local accent in the world are all love and enthusiasm for life itself.
In Jiangnan, where things are rich and people are abundant, the New Year’s Eve dinner on the tip of the tongue not only pays attention to the exquisiteness of "food is not tired of essence, but also has a festive" mouth color ":the eight-treasure rice and eight-treasure vegetables that Hangzhou people love to eat symbolize good luck; On the dining table of Wenzhou people who eat the sea by the sea, "no feast can be made without yellow croaker, and no good yellow croaker can’t hold back a good year", and "more than one year" is an expectation and blessing. Behind the big meal, people’s simplest longing for life is revealed.
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Some people say that in Chinese’s concept, only when everyone arrives is a real New Year’s Eve dinner; Having a New Year’s Eve dinner with family is a unique sense of ceremony in Chinese. But beyond the lights, those more unusual New Year’s Eve dinners also witness the warmth and love of the world.
There is always a group of people who can’t have a New Year’s Eve dinner with their families for various reasons. They may be medical staff who stick to their jobs, migrant workers who rush about for a living, international students who are far away from home, and so on. In fact, they are not without the fetters of family attachment and affection. Everyone wants to be the child that parents love, the omnipotent father, and the affectionate lover … They all look forward to sharing a table of meals with their families and tasting the taste of "family sitting around with friendly lights".
It’s not just the New Year’s Eve dinner at home. The distance between the police and the New Year’s Eve is called "Guarding". In the post of "no fight", there may be no big fish and big meat on their dinner table, and some even just "hurry"; Hospitals will not be deserted because of festivals, and diseases will not be on holiday. For front-line medical staff, perhaps just a bowl of hot jiaozi can satisfy them. Being busy and absent is the main theme of their reunion night.
They missed the New Year’s Eve dinner at home, and struggled in the front-line posts just to protect one side, but they sent a dish called "Responsibility and Responsibility" to thousands of families.
It is not the family reunion dinner that is full of warmth. Spending New Year’s Eve with a group of strange faces, although we met at first sight, not only was there no embarrassment, but there was a long-lost warmth and closeness. Those lonely old people and left-behind children who are unattended are invited by community cadres to be guests at the New Year’s Eve dinner table; Volunteers sent the meal just out of the pot to the construction workers and courier brothers who stuck to their posts. In this special New Year’s Eve dinner, the flavor of the year gradually transpired into a beautiful feeling of mutual help and deep affection between people.
The reason why the New Year’s Eve dinner is worth looking forward to is because it places people’s longing for a better life, contains the warmth of family and accumulates the strength of struggle. When we zoom in on the reality and focus on every living individual, we will find that there are always people who abandon the "small fortunate" of warm reunion in order to shoulder responsibility and lofty morality, and protect the most beautiful fireworks in the world with clear love and sincere feelings.
There is a saying in "China on the Tip of the Tongue": "These flavors have been mixed with feelings and beliefs such as hometown, folks, nostalgia, thrift, perseverance, etc. for a long time, and then they are on the tip of the tongue and on the heart, so that we can hardly tell which is the taste and which is the feelings." It’s an indescribable and irreplaceable taste of home, and it’s also a family tradition that comes down in one continuous line from generation to generation in Chinese. When the familiar taste blooms between the lips and teeth, the taste buds are satisfied, and the heart is full.
As night falls, the Year of the Loong is coming. In the harbor at home, we soothe the soul; In the gathering of delicious food, we bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Let’s have a reunion tonight and celebrate the Spring Festival in the Ming Dynasty.