CCTV News:As the Spring Festival approaches, the reporter recently visited and found that many restaurants in Beijing have hot reservations for New Year’s Eve.
In an old-fashioned restaurant near the Asian Games Village, a variety of the Year of the Loong New Year’s Eve dinner packages are being hotly booked, with prices ranging from 2,000 yuan to 6,000 yuan. In response to the Lunar New Year, the store has launched special dishes, and will increase special services such as beating gongs to send blessings and Peking Opera performances during the festival. The person in charge of the restaurant told the reporter that as early as the Mid-Autumn Festival a few months ago, consumers began to consult the reservation of the New Year’s Eve dinner. At present, all the seats in the restaurant on New Year’s Eve have been fully booked. In order to meet the peak passenger flow during the Spring Festival, the store has added service personnel in advance.
In a hot pot restaurant in Chaoyang District, Beijing, there is already a strong atmosphere of the Year of the Loong Spring Festival. The person in charge of the store told the reporter that decorations, products and performances containing dragon elements have been launched in various stores one after another, attracting many consumers to book the New Year’s Eve dinner. While the number of online booking consultations is increasing, hot pot delivery and other services have become a new holiday choice for many consumers.
It is understood that as the Spring Festival approaches, many catering companies have attracted consumers by launching online discount packages and webcasts. Among them, the demand for customized delivery packages and home delivery services has increased significantly.
Shexian County, Anhui Province: Wen Zhengshan bamboo shoot pot is delicious and warm.
In the cold winter, the villagers in Shexian County, Anhui Province are used to cooking a traditional famous dish — — Ask Zheng Shan bamboo shoots pot. When the sweetness of winter bamboo shoots and the salty flavor of Huizhou ham are perfectly combined, it turns into a unique delicacy.
To make a delicious bamboo shoot pot, it is very important to use bamboo shoots. Now it is the season to dig winter bamboo shoots in Zhengshan, because the soil is sandy soil, the bamboo shoots here taste more crisp and sweet. Using freshly dug winter bamboo shoots with Huizhou aged ham for more than two years, put it in a casserole for more than three hours, without adding any seasoning, and wait until the aroma of ham and the delicious winter bamboo shoots are perfectly blended, and this famous bamboo shoot pot is completed.
Anhui’s unique geographical location provides rich ingredients for Huizhou cuisine, among which the bamboo shoots of Wenzheng Mountain are one of Huizhou delicacies, named after Wenzheng Mountain, which is produced in the suburbs of Shexian County. There are many ways to eat them, such as meat, vegetables and soup. Although the methods are different, they are all fresh and sweet.
The price of beef decreased steadily before the increase in sales and supply.
In winter, beef and mutton have become a good tonic for many people, especially before the Spring Festival. What is the supply situation and price in the market now? The reporter conducted an investigation in Shandong, a major animal husbandry province in China.
In this supermarket in Yangxin County, Binzhou, Shandong Province, beef sales counters are filled with meat products such as steaks and beef rolls.
According to the salesperson, due to the increase in consumer demand for beef such as hot pot and sauce beef in winter, and the current overall price of beef is lower than last year, their beef sales have increased by more than 20% after entering the twelfth lunar month.
The reporter learned that Yangxin County, Binzhou, Shandong Province is a big county for beef cattle breeding, with an annual output of 280,000 beef cattle and 76 standardized slaughtering enterprises. The person in charge of a local slaughtering enterprise told the reporter that their beef was sold to Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and other places through cold chain logistics. In the past month, the slaughter volume increased significantly, and it remained at around 150 tons every day. Four self-operated pastures and 30,000 beef cattle guaranteed supply during the Spring Festival.
According to the monitoring of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, in the second week of January 2024, the national beef price was 80.57 yuan per kilogram, down 0.5% from the previous month and 8.6% from the same period last year.
Wang Mingli, Chief Expert of Beef Cattle Monitoring and Early Warning Expert Group of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs:In 2023, the national beef output was 7.53 million tons, up by 4.8% year-on-year. Imports were also at a high level, and the domestic beef supply was sufficient. (Recently), the beef price was in a steady and slightly declining trend.
Shandong: the price of mutton fluctuates slightly when it enters the peak of consumption.
As the Spring Festival approaches, what’s the latest mutton market? Continue to look at the reporter’s investigation in Shandong.
In Wucheng County, Dezhou, Shandong Province, this slaughtering enterprise has slaughtered more than 200,000 mutton sheep every year. The person in charge told the reporter that since January 2024, they have slaughtered 700— 800, an increase of 20% over December 2023.
Liu Xizhong said that the overall price of mutton fell in 2023. Since January 2024, driven by consumption, local mutton prices have stopped falling and stabilized, with an increase of about 5% in early January. Recently, the price increase has been weak and declined slightly, mainly due to the increase in supply and the decline in superimposed pork prices. At present, the stock of mutton in their enterprise reaches 2000 tons. At the production end, the person in charge of a local mutton sheep breeding enterprise told the reporter that there are currently 14,000 sheep in the breeding base, and the production and operation are in a low-profit state according to the appearance price of mutton sheep of about 12.4 yuan per catty. They further enhance the benefits by selecting high-quality varieties, rationally matching feed ratios and improving breeding facilities and equipment.
According to the monitoring of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, in the second week of January 2024, the national mutton price was 76.93 yuan per kilogram, down 0.3% from the previous month.
Qingzhou, Shandong Province: The price of Lunar New Year’s Eve flowers rose slightly in advance during the peak season.
With the approach of the Spring Festival in the Year of the Loong, as one of the distribution centers of potted flowers in China, Qingzhou Flower and Seedling Trading Center, Shandong Province, ushered in the sales season. Which flowers sell well this year? What about the price? Let’s go there and have a look.
Entering the twelfth lunar month, the flower trade in Qingzhou, Shandong Province ushered in the busiest time of "grabbing orders". In Qingzhou flower and seedling trading center, there is a hot trading scene. More than 3,000 kinds of flowers compete with each other, attracting customers from all over the country.
The atmosphere of the Lunar New Year’s Eve flower market is getting stronger and stronger, and more than 1,600 flower and seedling merchants in the trading center are also well-stocked with varieties of Phalaenopsis, Anthurium and pineapple. According to market dealers, the prices of all kinds of flowers increased slightly this year compared with the same period of last year, and the peak sales period was earlier than in previous years.
Huang Xiaoqi, distributor of Shandong Qingzhou Flower and Seedling Trading Center:We basically finished the wholesale this month. The best pink flowers and safflower in a single pot this year can be bought for 100 to 110 yuan, which is multi-branched, and the ones with few branches range from 50 to 60 yuan and 70 to 80 yuan.
Gaoping, Shanxi: 598-meter-long giant dragon lantern appeared in the block
On the morning of January 18th, a giant dragon lantern appeared in Gaoping City, Shanxi Province, conveying the joy of welcoming the Spring Festival for the upcoming Spring Festival.
This red giant dragon lantern is 598 meters long and 6-mdash high; It is 8 meters wide and about 3 meters wide. It meanders along the road and is majestic, attracting many citizens and tourists to stop and watch the photos. There are also folk performances such as lion dance, majestic gongs and drums, back piles and suona staged in turn, adding a strong flavor to the upcoming Spring Festival.
Huangshan, Anhui: Fish lantern artists are busy tying lanterns to welcome the New Year.
As the Spring Festival approaches, lanterns, colored lights and other handicrafts with full flavor of the year are becoming more and more popular. In Shexian County, Huangshan, Anhui Province, there is a traditional custom of dancing fish lanterns during the Spring Festival. During this time, fish lantern makers began to rush to tie all kinds of fish lanterns.
In a fish lantern workshop in Shexian county, artists are rushing to tie all kinds of fish lanterns. Fish lanterns are traditional local handicrafts, with bamboo as the skeleton, rice paper paste as fish skin, and then hand-painted fish scales or colorful ornaments. The big fish lamp is 3— About 4 meters, it takes two adults to dance; Some small fish lanterns are less than 30 cm, which are suitable for children to play with. Whether it is a big fish lamp or a small fish lamp, its fish head, fish body and fish tail are self-contained, and it can be disassembled, making it more flexible to dance. As a traditional folk custom, fish lantern is an intangible cultural heritage in Anhui Province, which has been passed down for hundreds of years in the local area.
Yibin, Sichuan: hold colorful activities to feel the rich flavor of the year
Near the Spring Festival, Yibin City, Sichuan Province held a variety of activities. Citizens and tourists visited the Confucian Temple, watched performances and felt the rich flavor of the year.
In Shuanghe Town, Changning County, Yibin City, the event site was crowded. In the garden activity area, interesting interactive projects such as ferrule and slingshot attracted many people to participate. In the folk performance area, dragon and lion dances, yangko dances and other performances are staged in turn, and the excitement continues.
And the fun country games on the side are also full of laughter. For example, in this relay race with a bumper harvest of grains, the villagers involved need to carry two baskets full of 40 kilograms of millet from the starting point to the end point, and hand over the pole and the basket to the next team member in turn.
According to reports, these cultural and sports activities will last until the end of February, allowing more people to participate and feel different Spring Festival.
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