China News Agency, Beijing, January 22 (Reporter Wu Kan) Reunion is the most important theme of the New Year's Eve dinner.

On New Year's Eve, the tables are filled with sumptuous New Year dishes, and the whole family sits together, sharing delicious food, looking back on the past and looking forward to the future.

The hard work and harvest of the year, the happiness and joy of family reunion, are all in this New Year's Eve dinner.

　　Spicy but not dry red pepper, spicy pepper, rich and mellow butter pot bottom, beef and mutton, hairy tripe, enoki mushroom and other ingredients are rolling and dancing in the red oil, heat and fragrance rise in the air, and the whole family gathers around Hot pot, cooking and rinsing, eating and chatting, extremely hearty...

　　This is the New Year's Eve dinner for the family of Yan An, the president of the Japanese Chinese Education Association. Spicy and delicious hot pot is an indispensable "New Year's flavor" for them every year.

Yan An's ancestral home is Yibin, Sichuan. In his opinion, the boiling hot pot is enshrined in the nostalgia of overseas travelers for their hometown. Cooking hot pot with a family is the best interpretation of reunion.

　　"The New Year's Eve dinner is not only a sumptuous feast, but also includes respect for time, organization of life and expectation for a better future." Yan An said that his family's New Year's Eve dinner also included local delicacies. Go to the supermarket in Tokyo to purchase the freshest fish, shrimp, crab, etc. of the season, and make sashimi, sushi, etc. Different food cultures are integrated in a table of New Year’s Eve dinner. Different flavors collide on the tip of the tongue, bringing a unique taste buds. .

　　In Lyon, France, Luo Jian, the principal of the French Red Panda School, and his family gathered together for a New Year's Eve dinner.

"My friends brought over their best dishes, such as braised fish, rice noodle meat, eight-treasure rice, glutinous rice cakes, etc. There is a Chinese toon tree planted in my yard. I picked some Chinese toon buds and frozen them in the refrigerator. This time I took Came out and made a dish of scrambled eggs with Chinese toon. My seven-year-old son tried cooking for the first time, and with the help of adults, he made a dish of scrambled eggs with tomatoes. We also ordered Peking duck, roast suckling pig, Cantonese-style roast goose, etc. from the Chinese restaurant Dishes to enrich the table."

　　"The best New Year's Eve dinner is the table of home-cooked dishes cooked by my parents. We have restored an authentic Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in a foreign country, hoping to soothe everyone's hometown feelings." Luo Jian said. They will also hold a large-scale reunion dinner event. Nearly a hundred Chinese families sit around a long table and eat Chinese dumplings together.

　　In Luo Jian's view, traditional annual customs are also a good opportunity for Chinese youths to understand traditional Chinese culture.

"The children in our school made handmade rabbit red envelopes, hand-painted rabbit masters, window grilles, etc. Parents took their children to buy New Year's goods and prepare New Year's Eve dinner, which deepened the children's memory of the New Year's customs."

　　On New Year's Eve, Yu Junwu, head of the Sydney Huaxing Art Troupe, was busy performing at the carnival art festival hosted by the Sydney City Government.

He told reporters: "The actors of the Huaxing Art Troupe brought wonderful performances such as folk dances and choruses at the opening ceremony of the art festival. People of all ethnic groups gathered to watch the show, and the scene was very lively."

　　After the performance at the opening ceremony of the carnival, Yu Junwu returned home to have a New Year's Eve dinner with his whole family and watch the Spring Festival Gala.

"Our family celebrated all night. The family went to the supermarket to purchase ingredients in advance. There were semi-finished Western food and fresh Chinese food ingredients. We cooked a table of Chinese and Western flavors. Dumplings are also essential, and the family together Adjust dumpling stuffing, roll out dumpling wrappers, make dumplings, and you will have a strong Spring Festival atmosphere.”

　　Chinese New Year’s Eve is the most important day for Chinese people to reunite. In order to reunite the family, Zhou Jianhuang, the executive director of the Chinese Help Center in Milan, Italy, and his wife flew back to China from Milan on January 10, and celebrated the New Year with his mother and sister in his hometown of Ruian, Zhejiang.

　　"My hometown is located in a mountainous area, and the products are very rich. There are yams, winter bamboo shoots, glutinous rice dumplings, Huling steak, beef roast slices, etc. These have been prepared in advance. We also have to go to the vegetable market to buy some seafood and meat, such as Fish, crabs, shrimps, trotters, etc. are all must." Zhou Jianhuang said that the New Year's Eve dinner must not only be delicious, but also have a "good luck", and every dish is full of beautiful meanings, such as rice cakes that symbolize the New Year The year is high, taro and braised fish imply surplus every year, and glutinous rice balls imply reunion.

　　Zhou Jianhuang said that the status of the Spring Festival in the hearts of Chinese people at home and abroad is unsurpassed by any other festival. The wanderers who are wandering overseas all hope that the Spring Festival can return home, and share the nostalgia, taste the country, and talk with the family, and the New Year’s Eve dinner It is the most lively and joyful time for every household, an important moment to bid farewell to the old year, and it also contains beautiful wishes for welcoming the new year.

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