Manchu New Year Pig Dishes (Ningguta Pig Killing Dishes, Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage) 

This is the most representative festival banquet of the Mudanjiang Manchu people. It originated from the sacrifice and winter storage customs in the Ningguta Manchu settlement area. It has become the highlight of entertaining guests in the twelfth lunar month since the Qing Dynasty. It is now a provincial intangible cultural heritage in Heilongjiang. The traditional process includes killing the New Year pig, stuffing blood sausage, braised pork, stewed white meat with sauerkraut, and eating it with chive flowers, fermented bean curd, and minced garlic. The banquet also included cold dishes such as skin jelly and mixed bean sprouts, steamed bowls such as ribs and meatballs, hot soup to warm the body, the aroma of meat and the sour aroma of sauerkraut, white meat that is fat but not greasy, and blood sausage that is crisp and tender without being fishy.