What is the custom of having a reunion dinner in northern and southern China?

Beijing 1

Old Beijingers pay special attention to "Chinese New Year".

Laba porridge, fried tofu, stewed mutton and so on listed in folk songs are all delicacies during the Spring Festival in old Beijing. Today, these are commonplace, but in the fifties and sixties, you can only feast your eyes on the New Year.

2. Jiangnan

Jiangnan people make tea for their guests in the New Year, and put two olives on the tea tray or bowl cover, which is called "treasure-free tea". When eating in the New Year, there must be cooking, saying that eating "kissing hot"; Be sure to eat bean sprouts, because the shape of bean sprouts is like "Ruyi"; You must eat fish heads at every meal, but you can't eat them all. It is called "fish (surplus) every year".

3. South

On New Year's Eve in the south, people usually eat Yuanxiao and rice cakes. Yuanxiao is also called "Tangyuan", "Tuanzi" and "Zi Yuan", with more sugar in the middle, which means a happy and sweet family reunion.

The rice cake is made of glutinous rice, which is homophonic "high every year". Until today, the custom of including jiaozi in the north and south is still very common.