What is the origin and significance of New Year's Eve dinner?

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

The New Year's Eve dinner is the highlight of the year before the New Year, and is not only colorful, but also has a lot of symbolic meaning. Traditionally, New Year's Eve dinner is eaten on New Year's Eve after offering sacrifices to ancestors. Before eating the New Year's Eve dinner, you have to worship the gods and ancestors, and only after the worship ceremony is over, you can start the dinner.

Once a year, the New Year's Eve dinner is a big meal for the whole family to mobilize, and every family will put on the dishes that are rarely seen in normal times, or those that have auspicious meanings: there are usually chickens on the table (meaning that there is a plan), fish (meaning that there are more than enough for every year), soup dumplings (meaning that there is a reunion), and lotus root (meaning that it is smart), and other dishes that are meant to be auspicious for the New Year.

New Year's Eve dinner, eat is joy, taste is affection, wisps of rice smell is the taste of home. The annual New Year's Eve dinner is extremely important to the Chinese people, a family of mutual respect and love, *** narrative family, sitting around the table, doubly happy.

Expanded Information:

Because of the geographic and climatic aspects of the reasons for New Year's Eve, Spring Festival, the North is still in the winter of everything closed, the winter of the northern region of the ice, snow and snow, a blanket, basically no way to plant crops. A, basically no way to plant crops, can choose to use the ingredients are not much, eat more dumplings on New Year's Day.

And the southern region, especially coastal places, basically all seasons of green, southern winter in fruits and vegetables and other ingredients have a great advantage, so in the choice of diet has more selective; in terms of geography, but also thanks to the distribution of water resources, so all kinds of catching a wide variety of ingredients; so in some important festivals, the diet of the South will be rich in some of the varied.