What are the customs of reunion dinners in northern and southern China? 50 words!

Dumplings are often made and eaten on New Year's Eve in northern China. Northerners often put coins, sugar, peanuts, jujubes, chestnuts, etc. together with meat fillings into New Year dumplings to represent beautiful meanings. In the South, Yuanxiao and rice cakes are usually eaten on New Year's Eve. Yuanxiao is also called "tangyuan", "dumpling" and "yuanzi". The middle is filled with sugar, which means a happy and sweet family reunion. Nian Gao is made of glutinous rice, which means "higher every year" in homophone.

During the reunion dinner on New Year’s Eve, every family’s dining table must have a dish of fish. Fish has the same pronunciation as "yu", so there is "fish" every year - there is "yu" every year, which is auspicious. A happy picture.

Northeastern people have very high requirements for the New Year's Eve meal, which must include the so-called "four big items", namely chicken, fish, ribs and elbows. If any one of them is missing, it will not be "Northeastern". Braised vegetables, braised carp, soy sauce skeleton, etc. are all must-eat dishes during the Chinese New Year.

Hubei people are very particular about their "Three Complete" banquets. In the New Year's Eve dinner, the "Three Wholes" are generally used, that is, the whole chicken, the whole fish, and the whole duck. There are also the "Three Cakes" fish cakes, meat cakes, and mutton cakes, and the "Three Pills" fish balls, meat balls, and lotus root balls. .

Shanghai people pay great attention to good intentions in their Spring Festival dishes, and there are quite a few must-eats. In addition to fish, meat, chicken and duck, spring rolls are also added, which means "spring is the beginning of the year". During the Chinese New Year, every household prepares rice with rice. Many families make homemade rice with rice, and of course some people buy ready-made rice. When the eight-treasure rice is served, it is "round and integrated" and has a special grandeur. It is an indispensable taste of Shanghai's traditional New Year's Eve dinner.