What is New Year’s Eve dinner?

The New Year's Eve dinner refers to a meal that is eaten by the whole family at the end of each year on New Year's Eve.

New Year’s Eve dinner, also known as New Year’s dinner, reunion dinner, reunion dinner, etc., especially refers to the family dinner on New Year’s Eve (the day before the Spring Festival). People who work outside the home will go back to their hometowns to reunite with their families before New Year's Eve. The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is a family reunion dinner, and it is the most important dinner for the family at the end of the year.

The annual New Year’s Eve dinner is a feast for the whole family, and every household will serve something rarely seen on weekdays. The New Year’s Eve dinner is the highlight before the New Year every year. It is not only colorful, but also has many meanings. Traditionally, the New Year's Eve dinner is eaten after worshiping ancestors on New Year's Eve. It is customary to worship gods and ancestors before eating New Year's Eve dinner, and then eat after the worship ceremony is completed.

Regular food for New Year's Eve dinner

Eating wontons on New Year's Day takes its meaning from the beginning. It is said that Pangu created the world and made "the light and clear air floating up is the sky, and the heavy and turbid air is down." What condenses becomes the earth." After the state of chaos was ended, the four directions of the universe came into being.

Dumplings are one of China’s traditional foods. In ancient times, it was called "jiaozi", also known as flat food or boiled pastry. In ancient times, there were only wontons but not dumplings. Later, dumplings were made by making wontons into a crescent shape. On New Year's Eve, as soon as the clock strikes twelve o'clock, people start eating dumplings, so it is the Zi hour, which means the alternation of the old and the new, and the coming of the Zi hour.