This New Year's Eve dinner, also called "Family Fun", is a family banquet that people attach great importance to. As the saying goes: "Hit 1000, scold 10000, and have dinner at 30 nights." Nowadays, more and more young people go out to make a living, more and more middle-aged people are rushing about for a living, and children are studying in other places. This phenomenon is common in the public both in ancient times and today, so the New Year's Eve dinner is also called the reunion dinner, which is a symbol that relatives and friends sit together to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year. Therefore, for this reason, there are generally chickens (which means there is a plan), fish (which means there is more than a year), oyster sauce (which means a good market), seaweed (which means making a fortune), yuba (which means being rich), lotus root (which means being smart), lettuce (which means making money) and raw garlic (which means being calculated) for good luck.
The origin of the New Year's Eve dinner begins with a legend. In ancient times, there was a monster called Nian. In winter, when there was little food, people would go to the village to hurt people and animals. At this time, people would be very scared and run to distant places to avoid Nian. Later, it was discovered that Nian was afraid of three things: color, fire and loud noise, so people discussed the countermeasures. When Nian came, people painted the doors red, put up pictures on the doors, lit the fire and lit the fire. I was very scared when I arrived in the village in, so I ran away quickly and never came to the village again. In order to celebrate that people no longer have to leave their homes to avoid Nian beast, the villagers keep the same custom at this time every year, and call people who leave home to have a dinner to celebrate, from which the custom of New Year's Eve comes.