North of the Qinling Mountains, dumplings are the mainstay, while south of the Qinling Mountains, soup dumplings are the mainstay. Reunion dinners are also known as New Year's Eve dinners. New Year's Eve dinner has a lot of names, different from the north and south, there are dumplings, wontons, long noodles, Lantern, etc., and each have their own instructions. Northern people are accustomed to eating dumplings on New Year's Eve, which is the meaning of "change of year" for the change of the old and the new. And because the white dumplings are shaped like silver dollars, a pot of dumplings on the table to symbolize the "New Year's fortune, Yuanbao rolled in" meaning. When some dumplings are wrapped, several coins sterilized in boiling water are wrapped into them, saying that whoever eats them first will earn more money. The custom of eating dumplings was passed down from the Han Dynasty. According to legend, Zhang Zhongjing, the sage of medicine, saw that the ears of the poor were frostbitten in the winter months, so he made a kind of "Cold-removing Ear Soup" for the poor to cure frostbite. He used mutton, chili peppers and some cold and warm herbs, wrapped in dough into an ear like "Jiao ear", boiled in a pot, distributed to the poor to eat, people eat, feel warm, two ear heat. Afterwards, people followed suit and it has been passed down until today. Eating wontons in the New Year is to take the meaning of the beginning. Legend has it that the world was chaotic before the creation of the world, Pangu opened up the sky and the earth, so that there is a universe of four sides, long noodles, also known as longevity noodles. Eating noodles on New Year's Day is to wish a long life for a hundred years. Round mainly.