In the old society, preparations for the New Year began in the middle of December of the lunar calendar.

Generally, from the tenth day of the tenth lunar month, every household makes rice cakes. Later, I began to make new year's goods, rice steamed bread, wine making and soup powder grinding.

Sacrifice the stove at night. Sacrifices include boiled fruits, rice cakes and rice cake ingots. And burn paper money to send the kitchen god to heaven. While paying homage to the kitchen owner, the housewife muttered something, asking the kitchen owner to put in a good word in front of the Jade Emperor to avoid misfortune.

On the 24th, every household was dusted. There is a saying called "the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, dusting the house". Grow a broom from the bamboo tip, go up and down inside and out, dust off the dust accumulated in the past year, clean the doors and windows, put new window paper on the window lattice, and greet the New Year cleanly.

25th God of Wealth Day. The store is set up to thank the god of wealth, and there is no credit on this day. Creditors don't collect debts, which is the day when the poor hide their debts. There is a saying that "they can avoid 25, but they can't escape 30".

Twenty-seven or eight families in Xie Nian. That is to say, the "three sacrifices" of pig head, carp and whole chicken and two plates of rice cakes are offered to the gods, thanking them for their blessing in the past year and praying for good luck in the new year. After Xie Nian, the whole family ate rice cake soup with gravy, which symbolizes that life is getting higher every year. There are also friends and relatives who treat each other to dinner. After dinner, beggars wear official hats, beards, soap shoes and swords, running around the kitchen door to door, shouting, known as "the king of catching chefs", symbolizing driving away all disasters. The host gave him rice cakes or coins.

29 and 30 are New Year's Eve, called New Year's Eve. The whole family sits around and eats New Year's Eve, which is called "Chinese New Year". The food is very rich, and there is more left after eating, which is more meaningful every year. After dinner, you can hang portraits of your ancestors, change the door gods, and post Spring Festival couplets. Put up a new statue of the Kitchen God in the kitchen niche, put up offerings, and put up dragons and horses in the barn, rice cooker, stone mortar, stone mill, cowshed and pigsty. , and put on rice cakes or steamed buns. The elders give lucky money to the children. Many adults often put lucky money under their children's pillows and let them open it when they wake up the next morning to surprise the children. Housewives also fry broad beans, peanuts and corn in the middle of the night, which is called "fried fruit". Lighting candles and burning incense indoors and going to bed very late are called "keeping the old age". Many old women and little girls go to the temple at night and sit until dawn to welcome the New Year.