The reason why the Chinese call December "lap" is because the word "lap" comes from meat. They like to dry-cured meat in the winter to eat all year round. Curing meat is popular in December, and that is why the Chinese call it "lap nguyet". We often see that during Tet, Chinese people in Cho Lon often eat lap duck meat, lap pork meat, not... braised pork. The word "thang dem" in Vietnamese also comes from the two words "lap nguyet", but the Vietnamese have misread the word "lap" as "chap".
Every New Year, local people have a tradition of drying fish. Chinese people believe that eating fish on New Year will bring wealth and prosperity. In this picture, a man is drying fish in Hangzhou.
People in Huizhou, Anhui province, China, dry chicken on bamboo sticks in the sun in preparation for the Lunar New Year. This is a tradition that Huizhou people are very proud of.
Rows of marinated chicken, fish and sausages are displayed in abundance in Shaoxing city, Zhejiang province.
A dried duck shop owner in Pengde town, Chengdu, Sichuan province. The area is famous for duck prepared in various ways.
A woman is busy checking dried fish at a fishing village in Haizhou district, Lianyungang, Jiangsu province.
Image of sausage strings dried since December in Hefei city, China
On average, more than 20,000 fish are dried before the New Year in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province.
Image at the famous Jinhua smoked ham factory in Zhejiang province. Jinhua smoked ham is very different from Western smoked ham. When smoked, the cut meat is still bright red and the fat layer is very clear, can be eaten as is or used as stew.
Cantonese style bacon hung from the roofs
Fish are sliced and dried. Photo taken in Ningbo city, Guangdong province.
The largest dried persimmon factory in Fuzhou City, Fujian Province. It can produce up to 200,000 kilograms of dried persimmons in winter alone.
People inspect dried salted duck meat. Photo taken in Fujian province.
A woman checks dried fish in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province.
Nga Nguyen
Source: Synthesis
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