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New Year's Eve is also called reunion dinner.

New Year's Eve is extremely important for China people. On this day, people are ready to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and have a reunion dinner. In ancient China, some prison officials even let prisoners go home to reunite with their families for the New Year, which shows how important the "reunion dinner" is to the ancient people of China.

Family is the cornerstone of China society, and the annual reunion dinner fully shows the mutual respect and love among family members in China, which makes the relationship between families closer. Family reunion often comforts and satisfies the head of the family spiritually. The old people are full of children and grandchildren, and the family is happy. The care and hard work of raising children in the past were not in vain. How happy this is. The younger generation can also take this opportunity to express their gratitude to their parents for their parenting.

When children are playing with firecrackers, it is also the busiest time for housewives in the kitchen. The New Year's food was cooked a few days ago, and the New Year's Eve dinner was always cooked on the 30th. In the north, jiaozi on the first day of New Year's Day will also be wrapped up on the night of New Year's Eve. At this time, everyone's chopping board is busy chopping meat and vegetables. At this time, the sound of chopping boards from every household, firecrackers from streets and alleys, the "scratching" abacus sound from shops and the cadence of reimbursement are mixed with laughter everywhere, echoing with joy, interwoven into a cheerful movement on New Year's Eve.

Speaking of the anvil sound on New Year's Eve, Deng Yunxiang's "Yanjing Local Records" recorded a very bleak story on New Year's Eve: in the old society, the poor lived a hard life, and the New Year's Eve was a gateway. There was a family whose husband didn't come back with money until late at night. "There is no bottled millet at home, and there is no new year's goods. The woman let her children sleep at home and couldn't do anything. She heard the sound of the chopping block next door and was in great pain. I wonder if her husband can bring some money or something back. I don't know how to spend this year tomorrow. I'm afraid there is no chopping block at home to make people laugh. So she cut the chopping block with a knife, beat her chest and feet, and shed tears ... This story is really sad.

Eating New Year's Eve is the most lively and enjoyable moment for every household in the Spring Festival. On New Year's Eve, a table of rich New Year's dishes, family reunion, sitting around the table and having a reunion dinner, the sense of fulfillment in my heart is really beyond words. People not only enjoy the delicious food on the table, but also enjoy the happy atmosphere. There are big dishes, cold dishes, hot stir-fried dishes and snacks on the table. Generally, two things are indispensable, one is hot pot and the other is fish. Hot pot is boiling, steaming, warm and sultry, indicating that it is booming; "Fish" and "fish" are homophonic, which is a symbol of "more than enough for good luck" and also a metaphor for "more than enough every year". There are also radishes, commonly known as vegetable heads. Good luck. Lobster, fried fish and other fried foods, I wish my family prosperity, such as "cooking oil with fire." Finally, I want to eat a dessert and wish the future sweet. On this day, even if I can't drink, I will drink a little. In ancient times, people paid great attention to the quality of wine when drinking during the Spring Festival. Some wines have disappeared now, leaving only many touching names, such as Wine, Wei Lan Wine, Yichun Wine, Mei Huajiu Wine, peach blossom wine Wine and Tu Su Wine.

[Edit this paragraph] The origin of folk customs

On New Year's Eve, no matter how far apart and how busy the work is, people always want to go back to their hometown for a reunion dinner. Sometimes when he really can't go home, his family always leaves him a seat and a pair of chopsticks to show his reunion. This kind of New Year's Eve dinner is also called "Family Fun", and it is a family dinner that people attach great importance to.

As the saying goes, hit a thousand and scold ten thousand, and eat at thirty nights. According to the traditional folk custom of our country, the food of New Year's Eve is very particular, usually including wonton, jiaozi, long noodles, Yuanxiao and so on.

Eating wonton in the New Year takes its original meaning. According to legend, Pangu created the world, making "the light and clear air floating up to the sky and the heavy and turbid air to the ground", ending the chaotic state and making the universe everywhere. Then take the homonym of "wonton" and "mud hoard", which means that the food is full.

Jiaozi is one of the traditional foods in China. Also known as eating flat or cooking cakes. In ancient times, there were only wonton, not jiaozi. Later, wonton was made into a crescent shape and became jiaozi. In the Tang Dynasty, the habit of eating jiaozi had spread to remote areas in China. On New Year's Eve, at 12: 11, we begin to eat jiaozi, so it's a year's time, which means that the old and the new alternate, and it's a year's time.

Long noodles, also known as longevity noodles, eat it in the New Year and wish you a long life. In ancient times, pasta was called cake, so noodle soup was originally called soup cake. At first, the noodles were not rolled or pressed, but the blended noodles were torn into the pot by hand, which is similar to the practice of "crow's head" and "monkey's ear" eaten in the north now. It was not until the Tang Dynasty that noodles were rolled with a chopping board that long noodles, short noodles, dry noodles, vegetarian noodles, meat noodles and dry noodles gradually appeared. ...

Yuanxiao, also known as glutinous rice balls, is more common in the south. It is made by kneading glutinous rice into a circle (stuffing with different flavors can be added) and then cooking it in a pot, which means round and round. Yuanxiao is usually the staple food of breakfast or New Year's Eve, and it is very popular in restaurants, hotels and at home.

In many places, some non-staple foods are also used when eating New Year's Eve to get a lucky taste. Eat dates (spring comes early), persimmons (everything goes well), almonds (happiness comes), tofu (family photos), three kinds of fresh vegetables (three kinds of Yang Kaitai), longevity fruit (immortality) and rice cakes (the prices of rice cakes and rice cakes are getting higher every year) ... Of course, the varieties of New Year's Eve are more abundant now. What is chicken, duck and fish?

[Edit this paragraph] Propagation and evolution

According to traditional folk customs, the eating customs of New Year's Eve in China are different: northerners eat jiaozi, southerners eat zongzi and rice cakes, and Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong eat Yuanxiao on the first day of the lunar new year, or fry or cook; People in Zhangzhou, Fujian eat raw garlic and preserved eggs on the morning of New Year's Day. On the first day in chaozhou people, Guangdong, he ate the local "rotten circle"; Hui people eat noodles and stew on the first day of the first month, and only eat jiaozi on the second day. Wonton Eating Wonton in the New Year takes its original meaning.

According to legend, Pangu created the world, making "the light and clear air floating up to the sky and the heavy and turbid air to the ground", ending the chaotic state and making the universe everywhere.

Then take the homonym of "wonton" and "mud hoard", which means that the food is full. In ancient jiaozi, there was only wonton without jiaozi, and it was later made into a crescent-shaped jiaozi.