New Year's Eve dinner [Photo: china.com]
As one of the most important traditional festivals in China, the Spring Festival is cause for great celebration. To have an authentic Chinese experience, there are eight essential things to do during the festival season.
(I) New Year's Eve dinner
On each Spring Festival eve, the most important thing is to have a big family dinner. Northern Chinese people traditionally eat "Jiaozi" or dumplings, while Southern Chinese usually eat rice. Spring Festival is a time for all family members to head home for a family reunion, which lends itself to the meal's common name of "Tuanyuan Fan" or a "family reunion dinner".
A netizen recalled his memory of New Year Eve dinner like this
"As I recall, my family always had New Year's Eve dinner at my aunt's home. We began to prepare for the dinner from midday, and all the dishes would be ready by 6 pm. At that time, most of dishes were meagre as we didn't have too much money to buy meat. The adults talked about their childhood stories and laughed. We just ate and ate. Then by the midnight, we would go back to our own home to wait for the coming of the new year. The New Year's Eve dinner is so precious for us not just because we can eat lots of yummy food, but because of the people who have the dinner with us."
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