New Year's Eve is the highlight before the New Year every year. It is not only colorful, but also pays attention to many meanings. Traditionally, New Year's Eve is eaten after ancestor worship. Worship the gods and ancestors before eating the New Year's Eve dinner, and wait until the worship ceremony is over before eating.
The annual New Year's Eve dinner is a big meal that the whole family should mobilize. Every household will put on dishes that are rarely seen on weekdays or are auspicious: there are usually dishes such as chicken (meaning there is a plan), fish (meaning there is more than one year), glutinous rice balls (meaning reunion) and lotus roots (meaning cleverness) for good luck in the New Year.
New Year's Eve, what you eat is joy, what you taste is affection, and what you smell in the fragrant rice is the taste of home. The annual New Year's Eve dinner is extremely important to the people of China. The whole family respects and loves each other, and they are happy to sit around the dining table.
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Due to geographical and climatic reasons, the northern part of China is still in the cold winter when everything is hidden on New Year's Eve and Spring Festival. In winter, the northern part of China is covered with ice and snow, and there is basically no way to grow crops. There are not many ingredients to choose from, so we should eat more jiaozi during the New Year.
In the southern region, especially in some coastal areas, full of green is basically in four seasons, and the southern winter has great advantages in vegetables and fruits, so it has more choices in diet choice; In terms of geographical location, it also benefits from the abundant distribution of water resources, so all kinds of catches are sufficient and diverse; Therefore, on some important festivals, the diet in the south will be more varied.