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What do I need to pay attention to when I eat New Year's Eve dinner?

1, all around the table to eat, regardless of age, all eat together, members of the family must wait until the whole family to move chopsticks, but also for the failure to go home to eat a reunion dinner for the family to set up bowls and chopsticks, signifying a family reunion, happiness and contentment.

2, New Year's Eve dinner do not eat too fast, each dish is best to eat a bite, because it contains auspicious meaning, so it is indispensable in the New Year's Eve dinner, such as: mustard to a one by one from the beginning to the end of the meal, heralding the first of the year in order to be a long time. Vegetable head indicates good and colorful. The whole chicken symbolizes the good fortune of the whole family. Eating fishballs, shrimp balls and meatballs refers to the meaning of Sanyuan and Di Di (i.e. Scholar, Huiyuan and Xieyuan).

3. The only thing you can't eat at the table is fish, which signifies affluence and yearly surplus.

4, if your home enshrines the gods, etc., we must remember to burn incense on New Year's Eve at night after dinner at twenty-three, which is to pay homage to the gods, praying and expecting the gods in the new year will bless themselves and their families to have good luck, good luck, peace and health.

5, the night of the New Year's Eve to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, must eat dumplings, dumplings in the many only wrapped up a few with coins (now people pay attention to hygiene, it is used peanuts or other nuts instead.) The dumplings are made of peanuts or other nuts, and whoever eats such dumplings will have good luck and good fortune in the new year.

6. If the elders add food to the younger generation, if they are full and don't want it, they can't say "no", but "yes".

7, if individual tea and fruit eaten, to say "eat Xing" or "too much", rather than directly say "no more".