During the Spring Festival in China, "eating" often becomes the main activity of most people during festivals. The family sat around the steaming dinner table, full of joy and excitement, which is the biggest feature of China folk New Year. The phrase "food is the most important thing for the people" seems more reasonable in the traditional Spring Festival.

The reunion dinner is eaten on New Year's Eve, on the night of the 31st of the twelfth lunar month.

The annual "reunion dinner" is very important for China people. Family reunion can give people spiritual comfort and satisfaction. For a family, this is a happy moment. They respect and care for each other, and the family is reunited around the table.

The research results of historians and folklorists show that the traditional custom of "Chinese New Year" in China has a history of nearly 3,000 years, and the custom of "reunion dinner" on New Year's Eve is one of the symbolic activities of China New Year. In this sense, the "reunion dinner" has a long history of development, a heavy cultural accumulation and a broad audience of Chinese descendants.

The custom of reunion dinner:

In Jiangnan, about ten days before the festival, people began to buy new year's goods, such as chicken, duck, fish, tea, wine and oil sauce, North and South roasted seeds and nuts, sugar-baited fruits and so on. Before the Chinese New Year, we should prepare the New Year's dinner in advance, put it in a bamboo basket, put fruits such as red orange, Wuling, water chestnut and gold ingot cake on it, and insert pine and cypress branches, which is called "New Year's dinner".

Auspicious language should be used in New Year's diet. Jiangnan people make tea for their guests in the New Year, and put two olives on the tea tray or bowl cover, which is called "treasure-free tea". When eating in the New Year, there must be cooking, saying that eating "kissing hot"; Be sure to eat bean sprouts, because the shape of bean sprouts is like "Ruyi"; You must eat fish heads at every meal, but you can't eat them all. It is called "fish (surplus) every year".