What is the New Year's Eve dinner also known as,is it the dinner on New Year's Eve on the lunar calendar?

New Year's Eve dinner is also known as New Year's Eve dinner, New Year's Eve dinner and reunion dinner.

New Year's Eve dinner refers to the family dinner on New Year's Eve at the end of the year, when people who work outside the home go back to their hometowns and reunite with their families before New Year's Eve arrives. The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is a family reunion dinner, and it 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 the ancestors have been worshipped. Before eating the New Year's Eve dinner, the gods are worshipped and the ancestors are worshipped, and the dinner is served only after the worship ceremony is completed, and so on.

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The characteristics of the New Year's Eve dinner in different regions:

1. In the old days, people in Beijing and Tianjin used to make dried rice, stewed pork, beef and mutton, and stewed chicken for New Year's Eve dinner, and then make a couple of fried dishes.

2, Shaanxi New Year's Eve dinner is generally four big dishes, eight big bowls, four big dishes for fried dishes and cold dishes, eight big bowls to braised vegetables, roasted vegetables.

3, southern Anhui only meat dishes are braised pork, tiger skin meat, meatballs, wood-bearded meat, steamed meat, stewed meat and pork liver, pork heart, pork belly products, in addition to a variety of fried meat, fried shredded meat, and so on.

4, eastern Hubei New Year's Eve dinner for the "three steamed", "three cakes," three pills. "Three steam" is steamed whole fish, steamed whole duck, steamed whole chicken; "three cakes" is fish cake, meat cake, sheep cake; "three pills" is fish pills, meat pills, lotus root pills.

5, Harbin area of the New Year's Eve dinner in general people fried 8, 10 or 12, 16 dishes ranging from the main ingredients are chicken, duck, fish and vegetables.

6, Gannan New Year's Eve dinner is generally 12 dishes. Some places in zhejiang is generally "ten bowls", to "ten full ten blessings" of color, to chicken, duck, fish and various vegetables.

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