Family reunion dinner. During the Spring Festival in China, "eating" often becomes the main activity of most people during the festival. Sitting around the steaming dinner table, the whole family is full of joy and excitement, which can be regarded as the biggest feature of the folk New Year in China. The phrase "food is the most important thing for the people" seems to be more reasonable in the traditional Spring Festival.
Why do you want to have a reunion dinner on New Year's Eve? There are many interesting legends about the origin of the New Year's Eve dinner. Among them, the one that is widely circulated is a story about Qi Xin's concerted efforts to resist the "Year".
In Archaean times, there was a fierce monster scattered in the mountains and forests. People called them Nian. Its appearance is ferocious, its nature is ferocious, and it specializes in eating birds and animals and insects. Every day, it changes its taste, and people talk about the color change of "Nian". Later, people gradually mastered the activity law of "Nian", which is to go to places where people live in concentrated communities every 365 days to taste fresh food, and the haunting time is after dark, and when the cock crows at dawn, they return to the mountains.
When the date of the Year of the Year was determined, the people regarded this terrible night as a gateway to endure it, which was called the Year of the Year. Every night, every household prepared dinner in advance, turned off the fire and cleaned the stove, then fastened all the chicken pens and cowsheds, sealed the front and rear doors of the house, and hid in the house to eat the New Year's Eve. Because of the ominous meaning of this dinner, it was very rich, except for
After dinner, no one dared to sleep, so they sat together and chatted with courage. You can't survive the new year without eating New Year's Eve. So I gradually formed the habit of having a reunion dinner on New Year's Eve.