Shengzhou is located in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas. During the Spring Festival, it is natural to make dumplings, glutinous rice balls, boiled red eggs, etc. It is also popular in the south to worship the stove, which is held around the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month!

New Year's Eve refers to the night of the last day of the twelfth lunar month every year, which coincides with the Spring Festival (the first day of the first lunar month).

The word "Chu" in "New Year's Eve" means "to go; to change; to change." New Year's Eve means "the end of the month and the end of the year." People have to get rid of the old and welcome the new.

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This is also the best time for children to understand the traditional Spring Festival and receive traditional education.

On this night, the family has to do three things: offering sacrifices, eating New Year's Eve dinner, and staying up late on New Year's Eve.

Sacrifice means worshiping ancestors. Chinese people never forget their deceased ancestors during festivals, and the Spring Festival is no exception.

At this time, we will offer food or flowers to express our feelings, which is a commonly used ritual among Chinese people in my country. The form of ancestor worship may differ depending on religious beliefs, but the meaning of commemorating ancestors is the same.

This traditional activity is very meaningful for children.

This activity not only allows children to understand their own family, but also teaches them to respect their ancestors and elders.

New Year's Eve dinner is the most lively and happy time for every household during the Spring Festival.

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

The specialties of New Year’s Eve dinner. There are usually two things that cannot be missing from New Year’s Eve dinner, one is hot pot and the other is fish.

The hot pot is boiling, steaming, warm and sultry, indicating that it is prosperous; "fish" and "yu" are homophonic, symbolizing "abundance in auspicious celebrations" and "abundance every year".

There are also radish, commonly known as cabbage, which is used to wish good luck; lobster, fried fish and other fried foods are used to wish prosperity for the family, just like "fire cooking oil".

The last part is mostly a sweet dish, wishing you a sweet life in the future.

Various New Year's Eve dinners There are many different styles of 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 "Geng Sui Jiao Zi" (Geng Sui Jiao Zi), the alternation 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.

The custom of eating dumplings was passed down from the Han Dynasty; ·The custom of eating wontons during the Southern New Year is based on the meaning of the beginning.

Legend has it that the world was in a state of chaos before it was created. Pangu created the world and created the four directions of the universe; ·Long noodles, also called longevity noodles.

Eating noodles in the New Year is a wish for a hundred years of longevity.