What's the significance of New Year's Eve?
New Year's Eve dinner is also called reunion dinner, New Year's dinner, reunion dinner, and cooking around the stove, which mainly originated from the ancient year-end ritual instrument. In ancient times, before eating the New Year's Eve dinner, we should worship the gods and ancestors first, and then have dinner after the worship ceremony.
This true custom has been handed down from ancient times and has a long history, so the people of China attach great importance to this year-end dinner. Married people will bring their partners and children back to their parents' homes, and people who go out to work will also return home on this day.
People will also start preparing the New Year's Eve dinner early in the morning. In some areas, people will start sweeping dust, putting up Spring Festival couplets and preparing the New Year's Eve dinner from the morning of New Year's Eve, and the whole family will get together.
Because New Year's Eve is the highlight at the end of the year, people are also very particular about the choice of dishes on New Year's Eve, such as fish, chicken, lettuce, bacon, sausage and so on.
The fish on the New Year's Eve must have a head and a tail, which means that there is more than one year; Lettuce, on the other hand, means making money and becoming rich in the coming year. The cured meat and sausage smoked years ago meant a long and prosperous life.
The dishes on the New Year's Eve dinner will also vary from region to region. For example, there will be meatballs on the dining table in the south, which is called a dumpling in the south, which symbolizes reunion. The implication of auspicious New Year's Eve dinner is people's expectation for a better life.