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Reunion dinner (年夜飯 )
When? New Year's Eve of the Chinese New Year
Who? family members
Some leftover will be intentionally kept aside
symbolize ‘surplus’ derived from the Chinese phrase ‘nian nian you yu’ (年年有餘 ) having surplus every year'.
Household God/ Kitchen God
灶君 It is believed that on the twenty third day of the twelfth lunar month, just before Chinese New Year he returns to Heaven to report the activities of every household over the past year to the Jade Emperor (Yu Huang).