The origin of the New Year’s Eve dinner is a short 20-character story: everyone drives away the Nian beast during the Chinese New Year, forming the Chinese New Year.

The origin of the New Year’s Eve dinner is related to the Nian beast. This monster named Nian is very ferocious. It comes up from the sea every day to devour livestock. People found that the Nian beast is afraid of the color red, fire and loud noises.

Every day on this day, people will hang red on the door, set up fires, etc. to drive away the New Year beasts. The next day they will rush to celebrate with each other, thus forming the New Year. In order to celebrate the New Year, the New Year's Eve dinner is also spread. Come down.

Differences in New Year’s Eve dinner between the north and the south:

Due to geographical and climatic reasons, the north is still in the cold winter when everything is closed on New Year’s Eve and Spring Festival. In winter, the northern region is covered with ice and snow, and the sky is white. Basically, there is no way to grow crops, and there are not many ingredients to choose from. We eat more dumplings during the Chinese New Year.

The southern region, especially some coastal areas, is basically full of greenery all year round. The south has a great advantage in fruits and vegetables and other ingredients in winter, so it has more selectivity in dietary choices; In terms of geographical location, thanks to the abundant water resources and wide distribution, all kinds of fish are abundant and the ingredients are diverse; therefore, on some important festivals, the food in the south will be richer and more diverse.