The New Year's Eve dinner is usually held at home but in recent times, restaurants have become a popular venue for the reunion dinner. At the New Year's Eve dinner, fish and dumplings are served to symbolise prosperity and good fortune. Traditionally, this is the family reunion dinner, where family members from near and far get together for this customary dinner and to usher in the lunar New Year. The New Year's Eve dinner is the most important dinner for the Chinese. Some of the common Chinese New Year traditions: Chinese New Year celebrations traditionally run from Chinese New Year's Eve, the last day of the last month of the Chinese calendar to the 15th day of the first month, making the festival the longest in the Chinese calendar. 1100 BC) from the people's sacrifice to gods and ancestors at the end of an old year and the beginning of a new one. It is believed to be originated in the Shang Dynasty (c. ![]() Chinese New Year is the most important festival for the Chinese people.
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