Look at the custom of reunion dinner in northern and southern China.

1, the custom of reunion dinner in the north:

The traditional "reunion dinner" is to eat jiaozi on New Year's Eve in the north, and the homonym is "making friends when you are young". For good luck, northerners often put coins, sugar, peanuts, dates and chestnuts together with meat stuffing into jiaozi in the New Year. Put sugar, the original intention is to eat sweet New Year; Putting peanuts means that people who eat them can live longer; There is also a coin in a jiaozi, which means that whoever eats it will be "rich".

2. The custom of having a reunion dinner in the south:

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".

From this point of view, the traditional "reunion dinner", whether in the south or the north, mainly considers their beautiful implication in the use of food. People are not only enjoying a sumptuous meal, but also enjoying a happy and festive atmosphere. Every household uses all kinds of food in the "reunion dinner" to express people's wishes for family prosperity and happiness, which symbolizes the healthy and upward outlook on life of the Chinese nation.