致妙清：2019年的除夕

    CNY is a time for families to be together. Wherever they are, people are expected to be home to celebrate the festival with their families.

The Reunion Dinner

    The New Year's Eve dinner is called 'reunion dinner', and is believed to be the most important meal of the year. Big families of several generations sit around round tables and enjoy the food and time together. Dishes with lucky meanings must be included in the dinner such as fish, dumplings, and spring rolls.

What to Eat?

    Chinese people like eating, and they eat a lot during the Spring Festival. 

    Food for the New Year emphasizes lucky symbolic meanings such as fish, which means 'surplus'（年年有余）. 

   今年除夕和往年不同，因为家中只有我和妻子以及年迈的姥姥在家。所以今年除夕我们买了很多菜，在家陪着老人一起看春晚，一起吃着自制的火锅。但不知为什么我突然留下泪来。无名而有苦，误解、忧虑、贪婪、愤怒、傲慢、妄想、嫉妒、恐惧、都是源于无明，幻象则与之相反，此乃两性，守持中道，不偏不倚如北极星，不饿己身亦不耽于欲望，专注中道，如果认识到邪恶只是摩耶幻象，那一切烦恼自然熄灭，我们便能体会爱与包容，这两种感觉本质相同，有如此感受，再无怨恨，即使残忍对待我们的人，也能试图理解，当智慧之门开启，只有宽容常伴。