New Year's Eve has a long history. According to records, since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, there has been a custom that families sit around the fire, get together and drink, and spend their old age together. The word "New Year's Eve" really appeared in Jiaqing and Daoguang years of Qing Dynasty. In Jia Qinglu written by (word livid), he wrote: "On New Year's Eve, every family holds a banquet, and the young and old get together. In auspicious words, it is called" New Year's Eve ",commonly known as" family fun ".

The annual New Year's Eve dinner is a big meal that the whole family should mobilize. Every household will put on rare or auspicious dishes on weekdays: there are usually chicken (meaning planned), fish (meaning more than a year), glutinous rice balls (meaning reunion), lotus roots (meaning cleverness) and other dishes for good luck in the New Year. This is also the expectation of a better life in the coming year. On the New Year's Eve, what you eat is joy, what you taste is affection, and what you smell in the delicious rice is the taste of home. The annual New Year's Eve dinner is extremely important to China people. The whole family respected and loved each other, and sat around the dining table happily.