What is the meaning of the New Year's Eve?

Eating New Year's Eve, also called reunion dinner, symbolizes family reunion, happiness and good luck.

New Year's Eve is a traditional custom that has been passed down for thousands of years. It is a farewell to the past year and an expectation and blessing for the new year. It is of great significance to connect the preceding with the following. Therefore, the New Year's Eve is the most important meal in a year. Not only should we eat well, but every dish should have a good meaning.

New Year's Eve dinner is also called reunion dinner, reunion dinner, and cooking around the stove. It mainly originated from the ancient year-end ritual vessels. In ancient times, before eating the New Year's Eve dinner, you should offer sacrifices to the gods and ancestors first, and then eat it after the ceremony. This custom has been handed down from ancient times and has a long history, so people in China attach great importance to this year-end dinner.

Good morals

Married people will take their partners and children back to their parents' homes, and those who go out to work will go home on this day. People will also start preparing for the New Year's Eve dinner early in the morning, and people in some areas will start cleaning the dust, posting Spring Festival couplets and preparing for the New Year's Eve dinner. The whole family will get together.

Because New Year's Eve is the highlight at the end of the year, people are also very particular about the choice of dishes for New Year's Eve, such as fish, chicken, lettuce, bacon, sausage and so on. The fish on the New Year's Eve must have a head and a tail, which means that there is more than one year, while lettuce means making money in the coming year. Smoked bacon and sausage many years ago meant long-term prosperity.