New Year's Eve custom: Why do you have a reunion dinner on New Year's Eve?

Because most people go home for the holidays on this day, it is of course necessary to have a reunion dinner when all the family members are most likely to get together on this day.

In China, the first greeting when people meet is: Have you "eaten"? When the solar term comes, people are busy eating at Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival and Spring Festival year after year. In short, when it comes to festivals, most people choose to celebrate by eating.

The annual "reunion dinner" is very important for China people. Family reunion can give people spiritual comfort and satisfaction. The family respects and loves each other, and the whole family is reunited. This is a happy moment.

Extended data:

New Year's Eve, that is, the night before the New Year, is connected with the beginning of the New Year. The old year passed away this evening, and the next day was replaced by the new year, so it was customarily considered as New Year's Eve. As a festival at the end of the year, New Year's Eve originated from the ancient custom of resigning the old year to welcome the new year and offering sacrifices to ancestors.

There are many famous dishes on the New Year's Eve, which are different in North and South, and each has its own emphasis. Northerners are used to eating jiaozi during the Spring Festival, which has been handed down from ancient times. The people at the bottom of the ancient north had a hard life, and it was their greatest hope not to go hungry all the year round. Food to improve their lives can only be eaten on major festivals and special days, and jiaozi, which is listed as the best food, is also the worst.

Family is the cornerstone of society. "Reunion Dinner" is a family-based folk cultural activity. The annual "reunion dinner" fully shows the mutual respect and love among family members and the happiness of the family. This kind of mutual respect and love makes the relationship between families closer, and this kind of family happiness shows the traditional virtue of respecting the old and loving the young to the fullest. Family reunion often brings infinite spiritual comfort and satisfaction to the head of the family.

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