As the various preparations ahead of the New Year fell into place, New Year's Eve arrived. The daytime of New Year's Eve held nothing particularly extraordinary; the main events were the dinner and staying up to welcome the new year, but that did not mean there was nothing to do at noon.
Lunch was generally casual, and as soon as it was finished, preparations for the first and second days of the new year had to begin. In this region, no knives could be used on the first and second days, nor could anyone stir-fry dishes—they could only boil noodles or eat leftovers.
The very first meal on the morning of New Year's Day was always tangyuan, sweet glutinous rice dumplings. While dumplings in the north and tangyuan in the south was a widely circulated saying, the Fu Family were authentic southerners, and they truly did not eat dumplings for the New Year.
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