The reunion dinner is usually the most abundant meal of the old Kanto farmers in a year, and it must be prepared on the 30th of the year. There must be fish on the table, which means more money and more vegetables in the new year, and everything goes well; There must also be a bowl of braised meatballs to show family reunion.

Cao Baoming said: "According to Zongba's Chronicle of Jingchu, at least in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there was a custom of having a reunion dinner."

Kanto people have always said that "the poor celebrate the New Year, the rich celebrate the New Year, and they don't eat jiaozi during the New Year". Changshi of Jilin Folklore Society said that jiaozi had appeared as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. There are different legends and stories about the origin of jiaozi, but Kanto people have always claimed that jiaozi, the first meal of the Spring Festival, was eaten at midnight on New Year's Eve. This custom is spread all over the urban and rural areas of Kanto and passed down from generation to generation.

Tujia reunion dinner custom: to buckle meat and pour sea pepper. Just after the twelfth lunar month, Xu, a farmer in Hongxing Village, Banxi Township, Youyang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, Chongqing, is busy. In order to prepare this reunion dinner, it is impossible to prepare some essential traditional main courses without mentioning the first ten and a half days. Among them, the most important ones are "deduction of meat" and "reclamation of pepper".

Xu said that "pork-cutting" seems simple, but it really takes some effort to be really fat but not greasy, tender and refreshing. "Sea pepper" is to mix glutinous rice flour with seasoning, then fill it into the hollowed-out sea pepper, and then marinate it in a pickle jar for half a month. On New Year's Eve, take it out and fry it in oil before serving.

Surprisingly, kelp once became the main course of Tujia reunion dinner. Due to the difficulty in eating salt and poor medical conditions in Tujia areas in the past, people often suffer from big neck disease due to iodine deficiency. In order to supplement iodine for their families, Tujia people put a kelp on the reunion dinner to supplement the iodine needed by the human body.

Under the conditions at that time, kelp was really a "delicious" of Tujia people, and it was impossible to eat it often, so it became a good dish on the reunion dinner. Nowadays, kelp has already withdrawn from the "stage" of reunion dinner.

After the Tujia people have a reunion dinner, each family will light a handful of firewood. Everyone will sit around and listen to the old people telling stories, and they will stay up until dawn, named "Shoutian Ridge" to express their love for the fields.