The reunion dinner.
Reunited with everyone.
You are the household hosting the reunion dinner, which means your kitchen has been running since morning and the family is arriving in waves across several days. Chinese families sit down to nian ye fan on New Year's Eve, Vietnamese families gather for Tết, Korean families bow for sebae at Seollal, and in every version the same thing happens: the photos are spread across a dozen phones and three countries. One QR code gathers them, and puts the grandparents who stayed behind at the table.
The moments guests actually photograph at Lunar New Year gatherings
Why Lunar New Year gatherings work better on Picsui
Written for the person hosting this one, and checked against what the product actually does.
Fifteen days under one code
Lunar New Year is not one evening. There is the cleaning and the couplets going up, the reunion dinner, the first-day visits to the eldest relatives, and the days of calling on friends after that. Sub-events keep each day grouped under the same QR code, so the family has one link rather than a new one every morning.
Grandparents who stayed in the home country
For many families the reunion dinner is missing the very people it is named for. With Live Pass, the grandparents in Guangzhou, Hanoi or Busan watch the table on a private link with sound, see the children in their new clothes, and hear the greeting meant for them, on the same evening rather than in a video sent days later.
Greetings in whatever language the family speaks
A reunion dinner has three generations and often three languages at the same table. Guests record a voice message up to 60 seconds from the upload page, so a grandmother's new year blessing in Cantonese or a cousin's greeting in Vietnamese is saved with the photos, in her own voice, for the relatives who were not there to hear it.
No app. No account. One scan.
Guests point their camera at a QR code and are uploading in seconds. Nobody installs anything, nobody creates a login, and the grandparents can do it as easily as the teenagers.
Several days, one gallery
Multi-day celebrations get sub-events under one code, so the rehearsal, the ceremony and the brunch stay organised but reachable from a single link.
Broadcast it to the people who couldn't come
Live Pass is a standalone $39 one-time add-on: stream up to 90 minutes to 100 viewers on a private link, with audio. Family abroad watch on any phone, no app required.
Voice messages
Guests record up to 60 seconds of audio right from the upload page — a blessing, a toast, a story — saved next to the photos in the same gallery.
unlimited photo and video uploads
Every guest can send as much as they like — phone photos, iPhone HEICs, short videos — with a fair-use bound of 25 GB per event. Originals are kept at full resolution.
Private by default, never indexed
The gallery is only reachable by the link or code you share. Guest pages are blocked from search engines and named AI crawlers, and you can close the gallery whenever you choose.
How it works
Set up in a minute. Collect for the whole event.
Create the event before the cleaning starts and add sub-events for New Year's Eve, the first day of visiting, and any later gathering you are hosting.
Put the QR code on the table beside the sweets tray, and send the link to relatives abroad with the time of the reunion dinner.
Family scans and uploads as each day happens, from the dumpling folding to the red envelopes to the lion dance outside the restaurant.
Download the originals after the last visit, and share the link with every branch of the family so the year starts with the same album.
Try uploading as a guest.
Scan this with your phone the way a guest at your event would. Choose a sample photo and upload it from your browser, then open the demo gallery to see it land.
- Scan the code with your phone camera — it opens straight in the browser.
- Upload a sample photo. Look for the upload confirmation so you know it reached the host.
Use a sample you are comfortable sharing with Picsui. Please keep personal or sensitive photos out of the demo.
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This is the same kind of code your guests scan at your event.
Getting the most from Lunar New Year gatherings
Print the code in red and gold if you are printing anything else for the house, and put it where the elders sit. The photos worth keeping at a reunion dinner are the ones of the oldest generation with the youngest, and those are taken by whoever is nearest, not by the host who is carrying plates. Ask the children to show the grandparents how to scan once; after that the grandparents will manage, and they often upload the most. If some relatives arrive only for the later visiting days, the same code on the sweets tray works for them too, and their photos land in the right day.
Set up the stream before people sit down, not once the food is out. Relatives watching from abroad are often waking up to it, so send the link the day before with the exact time you plan to start in their time zone. Put the phone at the end of the table facing the seats, propped so the whole table is in view, and leave it running through the toasts and the red envelopes. If there is a lion dance at the restaurant or the community hall, one guest filming the drums and uploading the clip afterwards is worth more than a hundred stills.
Give the guestbook a question in the spirit of the year. Something like "What do you wish for this family in the year ahead?" collects greetings in the words each relative actually uses, and a grandparent who would never type will happily record a voice message in their own language. Keep the gallery private through the visiting days, then send the link out on the fifteenth day so the whole festival arrives as one album rather than a trickle of forwarded images that nobody can find again by spring. Relatives who were at a different reunion dinner will send theirs back, and the gallery grows into the whole family's year.
Common questions about Lunar New Year gatherings
Is this for Chinese New Year, Tết, or Seollal?
All of them. The event is yours to name and the traditions are yours to photograph, whether that is nian ye fan and hongbao, bánh chưng and lì xì on the first morning of Tết, or tteokguk and sebae bows at Seollal. The QR code, the upload page and the gallery work the same way for any family, in a phone browser in any country, with no app to install. If your celebration runs over several days, sub-events keep each day grouped under one code.
How do we include grandparents who are still in the home country?
Two ways. During the reunion dinner, Live Pass streams the table to a private link with sound, up to 90 minutes for up to 100 viewers, so they watch and listen on any phone. Afterwards, send them the gallery link and they can browse and download every photo without creating an account. Many families do both: the stream for the evening itself, and the gallery so the grandparents can look back through the visits over the following days.
Can the family upload photos over the whole holiday, not just the dinner?
Yes. An event stays open for uploads for as long as you like within its 365 days of hosting, and sub-events let you group New Year's Eve, the first day of visits and the later gatherings under one code. Relatives upload from whichever house they are visiting that day, and the photos land in the right day automatically. There is a cap of unlimited uploads on an Event Pass, which is far more than a family produces in a fortnight.
Who can see our family photos?
Only the people you give the link or code to. The gallery is private by default, it is not listed anywhere, and guest pages are blocked from search engines and AI crawlers. If a relative is careful about images of children being shared, turn on host review so every upload waits for your approval before the rest of the family sees it. You can close uploads at any point and the gallery stays online for the family to browse.
What does it cost for the whole holiday?
One Event Pass at $29 covers the entire celebration, including every sub-event under it, with unlimited uploads, host review, full-resolution downloads and 365 days of hosting. There is no subscription and no charge per relative or per day. Streaming the reunion dinner to family abroad with Live Pass is a separate $39 one-time add-on for that event, and it is optional. A family that hosts the reunion dinner every year creates a new event each time, so this year's gallery and last year's stay separate and both stay reachable.
Every photo from Lunar New Year gatherings, in one place
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