On the first day of the Lunar New Year, housewives are the first to get up. They get up early to wash pots and pans, boil water and set up offerings, and then wake men up to "open the door and set off firecrackers". Hakka people in western Fujian and other places are very particular about offerings: when serving meals, they should insert 12 pairs of chopsticks, 12 garlic (one for each leap year), and put yellow paper money, oranges, grapefruit and so on. Some have silver dollars, which means "having money to eat".
Some add "Chinese New Year's rice and flowers", which means "Chinese New Year's flowers and hairs". In places like Ninghua, the ancestral home of Hakkas, in the old society, it was called "getting up" instead of "getting up", but "getting ahead". "Shoutou" is not a finger here, but a native name of "Wo". "Closing the head" means "leaving the nest", which was also called by people who carried the burden in business in the old society, which probably means "flying away".
On the first morning of the new year, some people are vegetarian and some people eat meat. Vegetarianism: Hakka vegetarianism in western Fujian mainly includes reunion soup pills, red dates, peanuts and glutinous rice, all of which are auspicious things. Some use celery, shredded radish and other boiled rice tea to eat. Some Hakkas in Gannan are vegetarian, while Hakkas in Xinfeng County in Gannan like to eat "rich dishes" (celery) and tofu.
Eat fruit tea after going home to worship ancestors. Meat: mainly chicken, meat, fish and so on. Wuping meat eaters must order a plate of boiled chicken, a bowl of "longevity dishes" and an old snack chicken leg at home. There should be more bowls and chopsticks on the table, and wine should be placed on every table, which means that there is wine and meat at the beginning of the year, which is a good omen for "eating". No matter whether you are a vegetarian or not, you don't eat porridge or rice soup, which is commonly known as "the first day you drink soup, it rains when you go out."