The family banquet of the Shangyuan Festival in the Qing Palace was seen in the TV series Love in Ruyi Palace. At that time, I saw Gan Long and his relatives having a reunion dinner at the Lantern Festival. Later, I learned that it was called Shangyuan Festival family dinner. This festival usually includes two family dinners, one for Gan Long and his mother, and the other for Gan Long and his brother and grandson.

The first scene is that Qianlong is having dinner with his brothers, children and grandchildren. Generally speaking, this kind of family dinner is prepared on the fourteenth day of the first month. All the participants are their own brothers and their own children and grandchildren, mainly to connect the feelings between brothers and children and grandchildren and make these brothers more loyal to themselves. Therefore, the first family dinner on the last Yuan Festival was for Qianlong to have a family dinner with his brothers and grandchildren.

Before Qianlong, the threshold for family banquets on the Yuan Festival was very high, but by Qianlong, this ancient system had changed. Gan Long is a person who pays special attention to family feelings. Especially in his later years, in order to make the descendants of the same family live in harmony, he lowered the threshold for attending family banquets on the Shangyuan Festival. In his later years, Ganlong's very young great-grandchildren and concubines will have a family dinner with him at the Lantern Festival.

Another family dinner was eaten by Qianlong and his mother. The process of this family dinner is to get up early in the morning, then go to his mother's palace to pay homage and serve his mother for breakfast. In the evening, I will go to my mother's palace to pay my respects and have dinner with my mother. Therefore, this family dinner is an emotional exchange between Qianlong and his mother, and it also reflects Qianlong's filial piety.

However, in many Qing dynasty dramas, concubines will also have a family dinner at the Lantern Festival. In fact, concubines are not allowed to attend either of these two family dinners.

If there are concubines at the family dinner, it is also in the late Qianlong period. Mainly because Qianlong wanted to enjoy the family happiness of four generations under one roof, so he lowered the threshold. But the formal court system is not allowed to have a family dinner with concubines.