This Chinese New Year card features a beautifully illustrated reunion dinner spread with a whole fish, dumplings, leafy greens, and traditional dishes arranged across a full table with chopsticks ready and the meal in full swing. It is a warm and deeply meaningful lunar new year card for the family that knows the most important part of the celebration has always happened around the table.
The Chinese New Year reunion dinner, known as 年夜饭 (nián yè fàn), is the most significant meal of the entire holiday. Families travel from near and far to sit together on New Year's Eve, and every single dish on the table is chosen for what it symbolizes. Whole fish is served because the Chinese word for fish 鱼 (yú) sounds like "surplus," a wish for abundance that carries through the year. Dumplings shaped like ancient gold ingots are eaten to welcome wealth. Long noodles are left uncut as a wish for a long life. Glutinous rice cake, or 年糕 (nián gāo), is eaten because the name sounds like "year higher," a wish for growth and progress in everything ahead. Nothing on that table is accidental.
Sending this card is a way of honoring that tradition and the people you share it with. A deeply meaningful pick as a Chinese new year card, Tet card, or lunar new year card for parents, grandparents, and anyone for whom the reunion dinner is the heart of everything the holiday means.
✍️ Blank inside so you can spill your heart out
📦 Complimentary kraft envelope included
🖨️ Printed in Los Angeles
📏 Size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches
📄 Material: 110# (297 g/m²) paperboard