Celebrating the New Year Festival is an important event in the lives of people all over Hunan. According to legend, the 24th is the day when the kitchen god goes to heaven. It is old custom to prepare fruit for offering sacrifices to the kitchen stove on the 23rd night, asking the kitchen god to say more good things when he plays things in heaven. Families had a "off-year" reunion on 24th, and cleaned the court on 28th. The most grand occasion is the New Year's Eve of the twelfth lunar month, when the wanderers return home far away and have a family reunion dinner, which is called the New Year's dinner. The New Year's dinner is rich, with chicken, duck, fish, eggs and vegetables, full of cups and lamps, but many places still retain traditional and unique recipes. Fish is an indispensable dish for every household, which means "more than one year"; Chenzhou people like to eat sour radish and pig liver and intestines, which symbolizes that people should have liver and intestines; Hongjiang area likes to eat spring powder, which is covered with two pieces of fish, meat, chicken, duck, hoof flower and ginger to show yes man. Some people also have a bowl of four-season onion mixed with tofu, which means "four seasons are clear and auspicious". On New Year's Eve, there is a custom among the people to watch the New Year's Eve, sit around the stove with the whole family, bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year. In many places, there is a habit of burning firewood and catching fire, and taking the homonym of "wealth head", hoping for a prosperous new year.