New Year's Eve dinner is also called the New Year's Eve dinner.

New Year's Eve is an extremely important day for the Chinese.

On this day, people prepare to get rid of the old and welcome the new, and have a reunion dinner.

In ancient China, some prison officials even let prisoners go home to reunite with their families for the New Year. This shows how important the "New Year's Eve dinner" was to the ancient Chinese.

Family is the cornerstone of Chinese society, and the annual reunion dinner fully demonstrates the mutual respect and love among Chinese family members. This mutual respect and love makes the relationship between the family closer.

The reunion of the family often brings spiritual comfort and satisfaction to the head of the family. The old man sees his children and grandchildren in the house, and the whole family talks about their family life. The past care and efforts in raising the children are finally not in vain. What a happiness.

The younger generation can also take this opportunity to express their gratitude to their parents for their upbringing.

When the children are playing and setting off firecrackers, it is also the busiest time for the housewives in the kitchen. The New Year dishes have been prepared a few days ago, and the New Year's Eve dinner must be cooked by the chef on New Year's Eve.

In the north, dumplings for the New Year's Day are also made on the 30th night.

At this time, every chopping board was busy chopping meat and chopping vegetables.

At this time, the sound of chopping boards came from every house, the sound of firecrackers came from the streets and alleys, the sound of "crackling" abacus and the mellow sound of accounts coming from the small shops, mixed with the chatter and laughter everywhere, one after another.

, filled with ears, intertwined into a cheerful New Year's Eve movement.

Speaking of the sound of knives and anvils on New Year's Eve, "Yanjing Local Records" written by Deng Yunxiang records a very desolate story on New Year's Eve: The poor in the old society lived in difficulty, and thirty nights was a barrier.

There is a family where the husband has not come back with money until late at night. "The house has already run out of bottles of millet and there is nothing for the New Year. The woman has put her child to sleep at home and is helpless. She hears the chopping sound of the neighbor's chopping board and is in extreme pain. She doesn't know what to do."

Can the husband come back with some money or things? He didn’t know how he would spend the new year tomorrow, and he was afraid that there would be no chopping board in his house to make people laugh, so he took a knife and chopped the empty chopping board, and while chopping, tears fell down..., this

The story makes people feel sad. The New Year’s Eve dinner is the most lively and joyful time for every family.

The feeling of fulfillment in my heart is really indescribable. People not only enjoy the table full of delicacies, but also enjoy the happy atmosphere. There are big dishes, cold dishes, hot dishes, and snacks on the table. There are usually two things on the table, one is hot pot.

Fish. The hot pot is boiling, steaming, warm and sultry, indicating that it is prosperous; "fish" and "yu" are homophonic, which symbolizes "abundance for good luck" and also means "abundance every year". There are also radish, commonly known as cabbage.

Wish you good luck; fried foods such as lobster and fried fish, and wish your family prosperity like "fire cooking oil". Finally, there is a sweet dish, wishing you a sweet life in the future. Even if you don't know how to drink,

Drink more. In ancient times, when drinking during the New Year, great attention was paid to the quality of the wine. Some wines are no longer available, leaving only many touching wine names, such as "Wine", "Lanwei Wine", "Yichun Wine", and "Plum Blossom Wine".

"Wine", "Peach Blossom Wine", "Tusu Wine", etc. [Edit this paragraph] Origin of Folk Customs On New Year's Eve, no matter how far apart they are or how busy they are at work, people always want to return to their homes and have a reunion dinner.

New Year's Eve dinner. Sometimes when they can't go home, family members always leave a place for him and a pair of bowls and chopsticks to express reunion with him. This New Year's Eve dinner is also called "family reunion" and is a family banquet that people attach great importance to.

Well said, hit one thousand, scold ten thousand, and have a meal on the night of the 30th. According to our country's traditional folk customs, the New Year's Eve dinner is very particular, usually including wontons, dumplings, long noodles, wontons on the New Year, etc.

It means the beginning. It is said that Pangu opened the sky and split the earth, so that "the light and clear air that floats up is the sky, and the heavy and turbid air that condenses down is the earth." This ended the state of chaos and created the four directions of the universe.

The homophony of "wonton" and "hundun" means full of food. Dumplings are also called flat food or boiled dumplings. In ancient times, there were only wontons but not dumplings.

In the Tang Dynasty, the habit of eating dumplings has spread to remote areas of our country. On New Year's Eve, as soon as the clock strikes twelve o'clock, we start eating dumplings.

, which means the coming of the child's time. Long noodles, also called longevity noodles, are eaten in the New Year to wish for a hundred years of longevity. In ancient times, all noodles were called cakes, so soup noodles were also called soup cakes at first. The noodles were not rolled or pressed.

Instead, the mixed noodles were torn into pieces by hand, similar to the methods of "Crow's Head" and "Hou'erzi" eaten in the north. It was only after the Tang Dynasty that chopping boards were used to roll the noodles.

Gradually, there are long noodles, short noodles, dry noodles, plain noodles, meat noodles, dried noodles... Yuanxiao, also known as glutinous rice balls, is more common in the south.

It is made by rolling glutinous rice into a round shape (different flavors of fillings can be added into it), and then put into a pot for cooking, which means reunion.

Yuanxiao is usually served as breakfast or as a staple food for New Year's dinner. This delicacy is very popular whether in restaurants, hotels or at home.

In many places, some non-staple food is also served with the New Year's dinner, in order to have auspicious taste.