The night before, I took out five kinds of beans, such as soybeans, mung beans, peas and Jiang Dou, and soaked them in clear water overnight. After getting up the next morning, housewives cooked porridge with rice (both rice and millet), put it in the soaked five beans and cooked a pot of rich "five-bean porridge". The first meal on the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month is to eat "five beans". Every family, without exception, has formed established customs. As the saying goes, "You get confused after eating five beans." It means to work hard and live frugally all year round. During the Chinese New Year, we must be willing to spend money and have a prosperous year. For example, buying new year's goods, eating fat and drinking sea, giving gifts and so on. It seems very confused, but every family is so afraid of falling behind.

The custom of "eating five beans" is widely spread in rural areas all over Shaanxi. The specific method of eating is similar, because the conditions are different.

For example, in Guanzhong Plain, rice or millet is the main ingredient, and five kinds of beans are used to cook porridge. Everyone should drink a bowl of porridge for breakfast, and then eat staple foods such as Guo kui, steamed bread and oil cake. Wealthy families also cook and drink, and are good at meat dishes, showing their abilities. In Tongchuan rural areas, the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month is called "Five Beans Day", and breakfast is made with "barley porridge" and five kinds of beans, which indicates a bumper harvest of wheat and beans this year.