2007-02-06 16:52:44 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
On Chinese New Year's Eve, every family holds a grand reunion dinner attended by all family members from near and far. They come to pay their respects to their parents and demonstrate their filial piety and devotion. This reunion dinner is a very important tradition. In the communal meal, the scattered family members gather to reinforce their ties of solidarity and kinship.
Chinese New Year marks the first day of the lunar calender. It is a joyous occasion celebrated by Chinese around the world, representing for them a new beginning.
Before Chinese New Year, all old debts are cleared up. This brings a renewed sense of freedom and happiness and allows one to face the new year with much courage. Chinese New Year is also a time when we discard the old and bring in the new as we do our "spring-cleaning" and purchase new clothes and shoes. Beyond the physical acts, such preparations symbolize the inner purification of our beings as old grudges are resolved as all anger is extinguished and all previous wrongs forgivenor forgotten. It is a time when peace, harmony and friendliness are restored among neighbours, friends and family members.
2007-02-06 19:15:45 · answer #1 · answered by sista! 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Always we have dinner together during the Chinese New Year eve, is like reunion. When all the children grow up and do their own things, have their own family. Some may go outstation. The only occasion can bring all the children come back together.
is also call family reunion.
2007-02-06 17:17:20 · answer #2 · answered by yogachaitanya 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Possibly similar to Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner.
2007-02-06 16:56:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's like Daylight Savings Time . . . except instead of turning the clocks back . . everyone is hungry in an hour.
2007-02-06 16:55:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋