Because most people go home on vacation on this day, it is the most likely time for all family members to get together, so of course we have to have a reunion dinner on this day.
In China, the first thing people say to each other when they meet is: "Have you eaten? The festivals have to "eat", the Dragon Boat Festival "eat", the Mid-Autumn Festival "eat", the Chung Yeung Festival "eat", the year after year During the Spring Festival, people are busy eating, eating at parties, eating at marriages, eating at birthdays, etc. In short, most of the people are busy eating when they are celebrating. The most important thing is that most of the people choose to celebrate the event by eating.
The annual "reunion dinner" is extremely important to the Chinese people, the family reunion can be spiritually comforted and satisfied, the family size respect and love each other, *** to talk about family life, sitting around the table is a kind of happy time.
Expanded:
New Year's Eve, that is, the night of the New Year's Eve, which is connected to the first and last of the year's head (New Year's Day). The old year to this night and remove, the next day will be a new year, so it is commonly known as New Year's Eve. New Year's Eve as the end of the year festival, from the ancient times of the end of the year to get rid of the old cloth new, ancestor worship custom.
The New Year's Eve dinner has a lot of names, different from the north and south, and each has its own specialties. People in the north are used to eating dumplings on New Year's Eve, which is a custom handed down from ancient times. In ancient times, the people of the northern underclass lived a hard life, and it was their greatest hope not to starve throughout the year, so the food to improve their lives could only be eaten on big festivals and special days, and dumplings, which are listed as the best food, were the most difficult to eat.
The family is the cornerstone of society. The "reunion dinner" is a family-based folk cultural activities, the annual "reunion dinner" fully demonstrates the mutual respect and love of family members and the joy of heaven, this mutual respect and love to make the family closer to each other, the joy of heaven to respect the old and love the young traditional virtues expressed in the fullest. The traditional virtue of respecting the old and loving the young is expressed to the fullest extent. The reunion of family members often gives the head of the family unlimited spiritual comfort and satisfaction.
Reunion Dinner - Baidu Encyclopedia
New Year's Eve - Baidu Encyclopedia