Eating Custom There is a wide variety of food as well as festival food cultures in China(China has a wide variety of food, and eating customs on festivals are also colorful). In the Spring Festival, one of China's traditional festival, people usually start to make arrangements for the festival on New Year's Eve, the evening before the Spring Festival. On that day, each and every family will enjoy the hearty family reunion dinner. Wishing for a surplus for the coming year, some Chinese ethnic groups eat fish in the first day of lunar January, because the sound of Chinese character "fish" is the same with that of "surplus".