Reunion dinner, also known as New Year's Eve dinner, is a meal on New Year's Eve in the lunar calendar. It is a day when people prepare to get rid of the old and welcome the new, get together as a family and **** for dinner. The New Year's Eve dinner is the most valued family banquet during the Spring Festival for the Chinese people.

The New Year's Eve dinner focuses on three important cultural elements: reunion, the gathering of family members; festivities, the celebration of a year's harvest; and wishes, looking forward to what to do in the next year, including the expectations of adults for children. The connotation of reunion in the New Year's Eve dinner is actually a way for a country and a nation to increase its affinity and cohesion.

The heaviest flavor of New Year's Eve is in the countryside, where children of all sizes have returned home, and the usually cold home is suddenly bustling with activity. The busy figures of parents, the aroma of steaming hot meals in the kitchen, and the playful sounds of children in groups are as impressive as a New Year's picture.

Customs of New Year's Eve dinner in various places.

1, Beijing

Beijing people are used to eating dumplings on New Year's Eve, which is the meaning of "change of year". And because white dumplings are shaped like silver dollars, they are served in pots to symbolize the meaning of "a prosperous new year, with dollars rolling in". Some dumplings are wrapped with a few coins sterilized in boiling water, saying that whoever eats them first will earn more money.

These dishes are also served: dried rice, stewed pork, beef and mutton and stewed chicken, and a few more stir-fried vegetables.

2, Shanghai

Eating New Year's Eve dinner is extremely elaborate, not only to color and flavor, but also to get a good luck. New Year's Eve dinner Shanghai people most often do is four happy roasted bran. The so-called roasted bran is "leaning on the husband", which implies that the male member of the family will have higher achievements in the coming year. Four Happiness Baked Bran, roasted bran, mushrooms, fungus, peanuts, is the four happiness, the dish is rich color, the sauce into the flavor, the taste of rich layers.

3, Harbin

Generally fried 8, 10 or 12, 16 dishes ranging from its main ingredients are nothing more than chicken, duck, fish and vegetables.

4, Shaanxi

Family banquets are usually four large plates and eight bowls, four large plates of fried dishes and cold dishes, eight bowls of chowder and roasted vegetables.