New Year's Eve, also known as the stove. In the south, it is called reunion dinner, which is a meal on the last day of Chinese New Year's Eve. The purpose is to have a family reunion and celebrate the Spring Festival before the Spring Festival. Traditionally, New Year's Eve is eaten after ancestor worship. Generally 29 years old (if it is a lunar abortion) or 30 years old. Local customs in North China are generally called New Year's Eve dinner, also called stove, and Jiangnan and South China are called reunion dinner. The time of reunion dinner varies from place to place, and it is more common to eat at night, so the media generally call it New Year's Eve. However, in a few areas of China, the reunion dinner is also eaten in the afternoon, noon, morning and even morning of the twelfth lunar month. In some areas, it may be that neighbors eat reunion dinners at different times. In the past, the whole family had to stay at their elders' home for family reunion dinner, but in recent years, some families have changed to restaurants and restaurants for convenience. In addition, some families have poor economic conditions and can only eat two or three people. The reunion of southerners and Vietnamese in China is to cook a dinner with rich dishes, such as chicken, fish and meat. The dishes of Shanghai New Year's Eve (Ge Jiahuan) are bamboo shoots, braised pork, boiled chicken, fried fish slices and vinegar mustard, which are authentic Shanghai dishes. China northerners, Koreans and Japanese often eat hot pot around the stove. The ingredients and dishes of the Italian reunion dinner are mostly auspicious. For example, Nostoc flagelliforme and oyster sauce are homophonic for "getting rich" and "good market" in Guangdong, and people in Jianghuai area often eat them (there are many kinds of raw materials and practices), while northerners eat jiaozi, which symbolizes Yuanbao. Japan will eat soba noodles, which symbolizes longevity and is called the soba noodles of the year. Shi Liangzong of the Southern Dynasties recorded in the Chronicle of Jingchu that "the furniture and dishes at home at the end of the year are intended to stay in the place of the old year to welcome the new year and gather for drinks." That is, every family prepares meat and vegetables (vegetables) on New Year's Eve to celebrate the New Year, and family members get together to drink and have a reunion dinner.