The meaning of the reunion dinner: also called "family reunion", it is a family banquet that people attach great importance to.

As the saying goes, hit one thousand, scold ten thousand, and have a meal at thirty.

A banquet for family reunion, which means good luck, wealth, perfection and reunion.

The ingredients and dishes of the reunion dinner mostly have auspicious meanings, such as Nostoc and oysters in Guangdong, which are homophones for "facai" and "good market". People in the Jianghuai area often eat Yuanzi, which symbolizes perfection and reunion (there are many raw materials and cooking methods).

People eat dumplings that symbolize gold ingots.

In Japan, buckwheat noodles called Nenkotsu Soba are eaten as a symbol of longevity.

Eating reunion dinner is the most lively and happy time for every family during the Spring Festival.

On New Year’s Eve, the table is filled with sumptuous New Year’s dishes, and the whole family is reunited, sitting around the table and having the reunion dinner. The sense of fulfillment in my heart is really indescribable.

There are many famous New Year's Eve dinners, which vary from north to south, including dumplings, wontons, long noodles, Yuanxiao, etc., and each has its own specialties.

Northerners are accustomed to eating dumplings during the Chinese New Year, which means "Gengsui Jiaozi" (Gengsui Jiaozi), the transition between the old and the new.

And because the white flour dumplings are shaped like silver ingots, serving them on the table symbolizes "making a fortune in the new year, and the ingots rolling in".

When making dumplings, some people also wrap a few coins that have been sterilized in boiling water, saying whoever eats them first will earn more money.