On New Year's Eve, people in China will have a reunion dinner together, which is also called a stove. It originated from the ancient people who ate around the stove. When you are around the stove, you should eat together regardless of age. Members of the family must wait until the whole family arrives before they can start working. They should also set up bowls and chopsticks for the family members who can't go home for the reunion dinner to show their respect for the whole family. In the modern society where interpersonal relationships are replaced, it is particularly important to symbolize the reunion dinner of members.
Custom:
1, eat fish on New Year's Eve
Fish is the most common and essential ingredient on the dinner table of New Year's Eve in all parts of the motherland, because it means auspiciousness, meaning "more than every year", meaning that there is money and surplus food in the new year, and everything goes well.
2. Eat jiaozi on New Year's Eve
Yuanxiao, also called Tangyuan, is more common in the south. It is to knead glutinous rice into a round shape (different flavors of fillings can be added) and then cook it in a pot, which means round and round.
3. Eat sweets on New Year's Eve
Candy often appears as the last dish of New Year's Eve, wishing the future sweet.
Every year's New Year's Eve is a big meal for the whole family to mobilize, and every household will put on dishes that they are reluctant to eat on weekdays, or auspicious dishes, which 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.
On New Year's Eve, no matter how far apart and how busy the work is, people always want to go back to their hometown for a reunion dinner. Sometimes I really can't go home, so I always leave him a place and a pair of chopsticks at home to show my reunion with him. This kind of New Year's Eve dinner, also called "Family Fun", is a family dinner that people attach great importance to.
Cantonese people attach great importance to the "reunion dinner" on New Year's Eve. In addition to family reunion, family reunion, but also pray for the safety of the whole family, all those who work outside come back for the New Year. "jiaozi" is definitely the highlight of the Spring Festival in Henan, and the Spring Festival without jiaozi is unimaginable.