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

New Year's Eve in northern China will include jiaozi. Northerners often put coins, sugar, peanuts, red dates and chestnuts together with meat stuffing into jiaozi during the New Year, which represents a beautiful meaning. 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".

On New Year's Eve, when having a reunion dinner, there is a fish on each table. Fish "fish" is homophonic, and there is "fish" every year-there is "fish" every year, which is auspicious and festive.

Northeasters have a high demand for New Year's Eve dinner, which must include the so-called "four big pieces", chicken, fish, ribs and elbows. Without any piece, it is not "Northeast China". Potted vegetables, braised carp and sauce bones are all necessary dishes for the New Year.

Hubei people can eat very fastidiously at the "Sanquan" banquet. At New Year's Eve, we usually use "three kinds of food", namely whole chicken, whole fish and whole duck, as well as "three cakes" fish cake, meat pie, sheep cake, "three pills" fish balls, meatballs and lotus root balls.

Shanghai people pay attention to well-intentioned Spring Festival dishes, and they really have a lot to eat. In addition to fish, chickens and ducks, spring rolls are also added, which means that "a year's plan lies in spring". During the Chinese New Year, every household will prepare eight-treasure rice, many people will make their own eight-treasure rice, and of course some people will buy ready-made rice. As soon as the eight-treasure rice is served, it is "round and close", which is an indispensable taste of traditional Shanghai New Year's Eve dinner.