It is better to spend a fat year in the hospitable Yan' an people's home. You sit on the hot kang and taste the New Year's tea and rice they cooked.

There are many kinds of tea and rice in a year, including tea and rice. Tea is simple. Press the yellow rice into flour, put it in without frying, add sesame seeds, peanuts and melon seeds, then soak the almonds and fry them dry, press them into flour and stir them together, and cook them when drinking. With twist and fork, it is usually breakfast. And rice wine is specially used to accompany meals. The staple food is white flour steamed bread and soft rice cake. Yellow rice bean paste buns, oil buns are like a circle, and the enema is cut as thin as paper ... This meal on New Year's Eve is really too much for you. In the old customs, it was forbidden to eat rice, but now some people eat rice. In fact, what really interests you most is the rich dishes. Eat eight bowls at a time! Make eight dishes of pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks and rabbits and bring them to you together. Or, put eight kinds of dishes in a bowl, one for each person, also called "eight bowls for the first meal", or make thirteen or fifteen bowls, called thirteen flowers and fifteen lights, and more than twenty-four dishes can be served.

Yan 'an's New Year's tea and rice arrangements are very particular. The staple food comes from a small plate. Eat less and eat more, and eat all kinds of food. Placement of vegetables and dishes: there is an elbow in the middle of the table, and cold dishes are placed symmetrically at the four corners of the table. In a wealthy family, the four corners are mostly meat dishes: pig ears, noodles enema, braised liver, crispy chicken and a hot pot. A table is one, eat one, and then another. In a poor family, the food is light at the bottom and covered with meat. The soup is mostly a hodgepodge, consisting of fresh Chinese cabbage boiled kelp, vermicelli, meatballs and barbecue slices. Also called noodle soup. A family dinner on New Year's Eve usually means reunion. You can drink before and after meals. Generally, you should drink rice wine before meals, and then drink white wine. "Respect the old at ordinary times, respect the young on New Year's Eve", the first glass of wine on New Year's Eve should be drunk by the younger generation, and the older ones who take less should drink it first; The old man is old and it's too late to drink. During the dinner, people guessed fists, looked at the young and the old, fined the loser and sang wine songs.

After the second day of the first month, Yan 'an people began to treat guests, also known as New Year greetings. Guests are mainly held between families to let others taste their own tea and rice. When a family treats guests, we should invite the whole family, old and young, especially the elderly, as guests. Although they are not guests, treat them as guests. Then, ask again. In fact, this kind of treat, on the one hand, is to close the relationship between the residents themselves, on the other hand, it is also to compare the skills of housewives in making new year's tea and new year's rice. At this time, all day, people drink and have fun, taste dishes and talk about family affairs. Of course, all the people who come to the door during this period are guests, so treat them with wine. Thinking of others is thinking of yourself.