People in Chaoshan started to prepare for the New Year after the "Kitchen God went to heaven" on December 24th of the lunar calendar. Every household carries out general cleaning, rearrangement and decoration inside and outside the house; Steamed red peach, rat qu trample and other various products; Buy new year's goods and new clothes; Haircut, beauty. Slaughter the "three birds" early on New Year's Eve and buy sacrificial items. After lunch, the whole family should take a bath, wear new clothes, pay homage to their ancestors, put up Spring Festival couplets, hang lanterns and put up signs on the wall. It is to set up a stove in the hall at night, and the whole family will have a reunion dinner around the stove. No matter how far the family is usually scattered, they must hurry home to reunite. After "surrounding the stove", elders should give "lucky money" to their seniors, and those who can earn money should also give them red envelopes, which is called "waist-pressing pocket". On this day, you can't make noise and break dishes, bowls and other utensils. If you break them, you can make up for your mistakes by saying auspicious words such as "open your mouth and be rich", which symbolizes that the whole family is full from beginning to end. At home, the water tank should be filled with water and the rice tank should be filled with rice, symbolizing "more than enough every year" with

. It's all night long, and every family keeps watch for the New Year.

the first day of the first lunar month is the first day of the year, which is called "Spring Festival", which is called "New Year's Day" in ancient times and commonly known as "New Year's Day". Early in the morning, every household wore new clothes, set off firecrackers, and worshipped the ancestors of heaven and earth. When offering sacrifices to ancestors, vegetarian food should be used as a confession, because it is said that Maitreya is seated on this day, so he uses vegetarian meals. This custom has been circulating for a long time, and the Qing Shunzhi's "Chaozhou Fuzhi" says: "Yuan Day, sacrifice and fasting." Qing Qianlong's "Puning County Records" said: In the Yuan Dynasty, the ancestors used vegetarian food, and the ancestors used meat. "Then the whole family had a warm and friendly breakfast, and the next generation wished their elders well, and the elders sent their expectations to the next generation. After breakfast, parents will take their children to visit relatives and friends. Whenever you visit relatives and friends, you should take Chaozhou oranges. Because oranges are bigger than oranges, they are named big oranges, and oranges are homophonic with auspicious words, which makes them "lucky". A big orange means good luck. It doesn't matter much how many oranges you bring, but it must be even, not odd. And the tea table of the host family always has a plate of red and green oranges, banlang (now replaced by olives), plus candy to welcome guests and respect guests. Regarding the custom of using betel nuts in Chaoshan, there are detailed records in the local government records and county records. Qing Qianlong's Chaozhou government records says, "If you don't have betel nuts, you will be called simple and slow." Because Bin Lang and Bin Lang are homophones, which contain the meaning of guests, the homophonic sound of "Bin Lang Da Ju" has become a kind of etiquette to greet each other and exchange good luck. When guests enter the door, they say something auspicious to each other, such as "Happy New Year" and "Congratulations on getting rich". The host should invite guests to eat olives and sweets, drink congou (Jiexi Hakka also respects the custom of "smashing tea and rice"), exchange good luck, and give each other "profit market" (red envelopes). Then the host prepared wine and held a banquet to entertain the guests, which is commonly called congratulations. Qing Jiaqing's "Chenghai County Records" invited each other to drink wine. As the saying goes,' every family has wine in the first month' ".

Spring Festival is a holy day, so there are many taboos in Chaoshan, such as not sweeping the floor or washing clothes, for fear of losing money; Don't use long and short chopsticks when having meals, or you will miss the boat during the transition; Don't eat porridge or rice soup, or it will rain when you go out; Don't speak ill, swear or fight. If a child hits or scolds a child, a parent should take a pair of oranges to apologize and wish others good luck.