The Origin of New Year's Eve Dinner

The origin of Lunar New Year's Eve dinner: there is an interesting story that has been passed down in the folklore for generations: in the ancient times, there was a kind of ferocious beasts, scattered in the mountains and dense forests, and people called them "Nian". "Year" of the hideous appearance, ferocious nature, a day to change a flavor, from knocking insects have been eating to a living person, let people talk about "year" color change. Slowly, people have mastered the "year" of the activities of the law, it turns out that it every 365 days scurry to the crowd of people living in the place to taste a mouthful of food, and the time of the infestation are in the dark, until the rooster breaks the dawn, they will return to the mountains and forests to go.

The men and women regarded this terrible night as a curse and called it "New Year's Eve" and came up with a whole set of "New Year's Eve" methods: every night, every family made dinner in advance, turned off the fire and cleaned the stove, and then chained up all the chicken pens and cattle pens.

The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have a good dinner, and then seal the door of the house, and hide in the house to eat the "New Year's Eve dinner", because this dinner has the meaning of bad luck and uncertainty, so it's very rich, in addition to the whole family around the meal to show that the reunion of the whole family, but also have to be in the meal before the sacrifice to the ancestors, and pray to the gods of the ancestors to bless them to spend the night in peace and security.

After dinner, no one dared to go to bed, sitting together in a crowded chat. As the sky darkened, "Nian" scurried out from the deep forest and touched the village where the crowd had gathered. Only to see the door of every house closed, in front of the door is still piled up sesame stalks, the street but see no one shadow. After half a night of "Nian" without any luck, every time so they no longer come out. Therefore, the custom of the New Year's Eve dinner was gradually developed and has been passed down from generation to generation. The New Year's Eve dinner was usually the most sumptuous meal of the year in the farming families of the old Kanto region, and had to be cooked on the 30th day of the new year.

I. New Year's Eve Dinner

New Year's Eve dinner is the most important dinner at the end of the year. It is also the most important dinner at the end of the year.

The significance of the New Year's Eve dinner

The annual reunion dinner fully demonstrates the mutual respect and love of the members of the Chinese family, and this mutual respect and love makes the relationship between the family closer. Family reunion often makes the "head of the family" in the spirit of comfort and satisfaction, the elderly look at the children and grandchildren, the family size *** to talk about the family, the past care and raising children to pay the effort and not in vain, this is how happy, and the younger generation is also can take this opportunity to the parents of the upbringing of the grace to express gratitude. In fact, with the progress of the times, this ancient tradition is also facing serious challenges, many forced to choose the New Year's Eve pressure not to go home, which also makes the New Year's Eve dinner has become empty talk.