Dragon and Snake, the auspicious dish of the Spring Festival, fly over the Spring Festival -[Steamed eel with plum juice]

Have seen a survey: What is the most indispensable food for New Years Eve dinner? Ninety-nine percent of the respondents thought they were "fish". Thats right. How can we get a table without fish? And fish and Yu homophonic, more than a year ah. Fish also symbolizes wealth and auspiciousness, indicating that the next years work will be smooth and life will be happy. Of course, the New Years vegetable can not be short of fish. In my hometown of Guizhou, spicy fish is a very traditional fish dish, and New Years Eve dinner is indispensable. Although my mother does not cook many dishes, these traditional dishes are still well cooked in our family. Every New Years Eve is served by her, and I was proud of them for a long time when I was a child. When mom cooks bad spicy fish for New Years Eve dinner, she always cooks two. In her words, "Good things make two." Then she eats one and keeps one, which symbolizes more than one year. The leader once told me that when he was a child, his grandparents were still there. The whole family lived in the old house and did not separate. The whole family lived together all the year round. First, the grandmother-in-law was in charge of the housekeeper, and then my mother-in-law was in charge of the housekeeper. Its not easy to think about three meals a day for a family of nearly 20 people. When it comes to holidays, especially New Years Day, it is more solemn and exquisite. Mother-in-law and grandpa and grandma have to agree on the menu together early. Usually there are twelve dishes. Desserts have to be prepared in two ways, and the order of serving is also exquisite. However, no matter how the dishes change, steamed fish is necessary, and when fish is served, it must be a complete one. After the meal, fish head and tail must be left, leaving it until the first day of the first month of the first lunar month, symbolizing more than one year. The fish used for steaming are also exquisite, carp can not appear on New Years Eve dinner. Carp is regarded as the incarnation of mascot and appears on the festival table, which is a blasphemy to the mascot. In this way, the New Years Eve dinner everyone pays attention to "more than one year a year", but each place has its own customs. Leaders also said that they did not remember when the family New Years Eve meal was no longer a traditional "twelve-way menu", but instead a coffee-stove New Years Festival. After hot pot has become the main role of Chaoshan peoples New Years Eve dinner, various hot pot dishes have changed the traditional concept of everyone, steamed fish on New Years Eve dinner has evolved into instant fish fillets. The most popular fish fillet is the eel, which sells most in the New Years market, but it is seldom seen in peacetime. When buying mullet eels, the stall owners usually dont ask too much, but directly give the fillets into fillets, because in their view, buying mullet eels for the Spring Festival is a hot pot dish. But I really cant get used to it. I feel that the eels made of clear soup are very tired and hardly eat them. This eel is said to be very tonic, the family see I do not eat, they divided part of the traditional practice, steamed with plum juice to eat for me, I did not expect to do so I also like, fish inhaled the taste of salted plum, no longer so fat, steamed soup slightly sour, fish dipped in this juice to eat, meat is very delicious. Since then, as long as I go to my mother-in-laws house for the New Year, there will always be this "steamed eel with plum juice" when I eat eel in the cofferdam. This "steamed eel with plum juice" is another traditional Chinese New Year dish of my mother-in-laws family after the "Chaoshan shrimp and jujube" of the previous days. And this year is not the Year of the Snake. Snakes are also called Xiaolong. This eel is a bit like a snake. Besides "more than one year a year", its also very suitable. How can we get rid of it this New Years Eve?