New Year's Eve is one of the customs of the Spring Festival, also known as reunion dinner, reunion dinner and so on. Especially the New Year's Eve dinner. The New Year's Eve dinner originated from the ancient ritual vessels at the end of the year, and it is a reunion dinner after offering sacrifices to the gods and ancestors. The New Year's Eve dinner is the highlight of the previous year, which is not only colorful, but also meaningful. Worship the gods and ancestors before the reunion dinner, and eat after the worship ceremony. Generally, there are chicken (meaning accumulated food), fish (meaning annual surplus), oyster sauce (meaning good market), Nostoc flagelliforme (meaning rich), yuba (meaning smart), lotus root (meaning making money), raw garlic (meaning careful calculation) and sausage (meaning long time) for good luck. China people's New Year's Eve dinner is a family reunion dinner, which is the most abundant and important dinner in a year.
After entering the 2 1 century, everyone's life is getting better and better. In the early 1950s, only during the Chinese New Year did the state-owned retail stores, cooperatives, public-private joint-venture food stores and other places where things were sold really feel the atmosphere of the Chinese New Year, which was full of customers. Delicious fruits, traditional cakes, rice cakes, dried fruits, seafood, braised chicken and salted duck are all "luxury goods", and every household can only afford a little. At that time, pork, beef and mutton, as well as all kinds of fresh fish, shrimp and local products were specially prepared for the Spring Festival, and the quantity was very limited.
The annual New Year's Eve dinner, the family should eat together, and we will eat what we are reluctant to eat on weekdays. This is also the expectation for a better life in the coming year. On the New Year's Eve, what you eat is joy, what you taste is affection, and what you smell in the delicious rice is the taste of home. The annual New Year's Eve dinner is very important for China people. The whole family respects and loves each other, reminisces about their families and sits around the dining table, feeling very happy.