During the traditional festival, what are the requirements for the New Year’s Eve dinner?

Chinese traditional culture has a long history, and many holidays incorporate local cultural characteristics. The New Year’s Eve dinner is no exception. There will also be some local culture involved. There will be some etiquette and taboos in the New Year’s Eve dinner.

What are the general rules for New Year's Eve dinner?

1. New Year’s Eve dinner is particular about: a plate of fried pork with winter bamboo shoots symbolizes “prosperity on a daily basis”, and everyone has to eat a little whether they like it or not. After the "harmony dish" made of day lily, dried tofu, winter bamboo shoots, mushrooms, shredded pork, etc. is served, everyone has to eat a little symbolically, especially brothers and sisters, mother-in-law, daughter-in-law and sisters-in-law, as if eating this "harmony dish" will make everything harmonious for everyone in the coming year.

2. New Year’s Eve dinner etiquette: Everyone agrees not to move their chopsticks when there is a dish of fish on the New Year’s Eve dinner, in the hope of having fish (surplus) every year.

3. New Year’s Eve dinner is particular about: Adults should not drink soup during the Chinese New Year, because adults are always busy outside, and soup outside is not good.

4. New Year’s Eve dinner etiquette: There are many rules for the content of the speech during the meal. You cannot cry, you cannot quarrel, and you cannot say "full" after eating. You must say "satisfied". If the dumplings break during the cooking process, you cannot say "broken". You must say that the dumplings have "earned" money, which means making money. Do not talk about topics such as death, illness, etc. Here is a trick for you: during the Chinese New Year, just say auspicious words and do auspicious things for everything, and you will never go wrong.

5. New Year’s Eve dinner etiquette: At around 10 o’clock in the evening, it is time to welcome the Kitchen God. The adults will come to the kitchen stove with a sticker saying “May God bless you with good things and keep you safe in the world below” and symbolically set off a string of firecrackers to welcome the Kitchen God.