Twelve-course New Year's Eve dinner is usually four cold dishes and eight hot dishes. It embodies three important cultural elements: reunion and family reunion; Celebrate the harvest of the year; Wish and look forward to what to do next year, including the expectations of adults for their children.

The connotation of reunion dinner is actually a way for a country and a nation to increase affinity and cohesion. The dishes of New Year's Eve correspond to more "good intentions": yuba stands for wealth, tofu stands for wealth, lettuce stands for wealth, celery stands for hard work, onion and garlic want children to be smart and count, and New Year's Eve covers people's pursuits, hopes and blessings.

New Year's Eve dinner has already gone beyond the category of "eating". The meaning of New Year's Eve is not the food, but the warmth between people. New Year's Eve is the core centripetal force of China people, and the warmth of New Year's Eve is exactly such a kind of warmth that is engraved in the bones of the nation, warm in the greetings of family members and boiling in everyone's blood.

New Year's Eve symbolizes the yearning for happiness, which comes from parents' exhortation and parents' expectation for their children who are working hard outside to go home and reunite. It is also the persistence and sincerity of countless wanderers who go home against the cold wind and step on the snow. China people are most concerned about their closest relatives and feelings, and are deeply influenced by the "state of etiquette".

But in modern society, many family members go their separate ways for their livelihood and development, and it is rare to get together at ordinary times. The family is drinking and eating together, speaking out of turn, telling the feelings of parting and where will you go. What a pleasant thing it is to have dinner together.