Keeping old age on New Year's Eve is the most important custom, which was recorded in Wei and Jin Dynasties. On New Year's Eve, it is a custom that people in China still attach great importance to getting together for drinking and sharing family happiness without sleeping for a year. Even people who work outside all the year round must rush home for reunion at this time.

Before New Year's Eve, other door decorations can be dispensed with, but a pair of bright red and happy couplets must be posted.

There are all kinds of dinners in China tradition, but the most important one is the New Year's Eve dinner, which represents the supreme and ancient saints.

According to the custom in Beijing, it is inconvenient to stay at someone else's house for a long time on New Year's Eve.

In rural Shaanxi, the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month is the Lunar New Year, and the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month is called "off-year". In some places in the countryside, it is called "offering sacrifices to stoves", that is, offering sacrifices to the "kitchen god" who dominates good and bad luck in order to be warm and full. After the Spring Festival, people will prepare for it. Ordinary farmers kill pigs and sheep, grind rice and noodles, make tofu, buy vegetables, hang vermicelli and prepare all the food needed for the New Year. From the 27th to 29th of the twelfth lunar month, Guanzhong people pack steamed buns. Every household is short of several cages of steamed buns. It is a custom to eat them after the fifteenth day of the first month, and not to roll noodles before the fifteenth day of the first month. Women and children go to the streets to buy clothes, shoes and socks for the elderly and children, while the elderly buy red paper, New Year pictures, Mingbi, white linen paper and other New Year etiquette supplies.