New Year's Eve dinner is eaten on New Year's Eve.
New Year's Eve dinner is also called New Year's Eve dinner, New Year's Eve dinner, reunion dinner, and round-the-oven dinner, which specifically refers to a meal at the end of the year when the whole family is reunited. At the same time, New Year's Eve dinner is also the most important and sumptuous dinner at the end of the year. Generally speaking, New Year's Eve dinner is eaten on the last day of the New Year, that is, on the 30th day of the New Year. Most of the New Year's Eve dinners are served between 4 and 8 p.m. on New Year's Eve, and basically the preparation of the New Year's Eve dinner will start from noon.
The New Year's Eve dinner is mainly derived from the ancient year-end rituals, in which people would worship their gods and ancestors before eating the New Year's Eve dinner, and then start eating the New Year's Eve dinner after the rituals were finished. The New Year's Eve dinner is of great importance to the Chinese people, as it is a rich and auspicious meal for the whole family, including the elderly and children, to eat together.
Customs of the New Year:
1, the old age, also known as the old age of the fire, according to the age of the old, and so on, its long history of China's Han Chinese folk in the new year's eve of the old age of the custom, commonly known as boiled years. New Year's Eve night before the New Year's Eve vigil, folklore activities are mainly manifested in the point of the year-old fire, keep the year-old fire. That is, all the houses are lit all over the lamps and candles, the family get together to meet the New Year.
2, pay homage to one of the New Year's customs, refers to the first of the New Year, when the old and the new, pay homage to the god of the year. Worship is one of the oldest traditional customs of the Chinese people, and this traditional custom has been passed down from generation to generation. People hold rituals on the first day of the year to welcome the new year, pray for the new year and receive blessings.
3. Eating dumplings is popular in the northern region, usually meat-filled on New Year's Eve and vegetarian on the first day of the New Year. New Year's dumplings should be thin skin, stuffed, pinched tightly, can not be cooked. Meat dumplings to have pork, mutton, beef, chicken, there are two kinds of meat mixed together in the mandarin duck dumplings, as well as a variety of dumplings feast.