Celebrating the New Year 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. The old custom prepares fruit to sacrifice to the Kitchen God on the evening of 23rd, and asks the Kitchen God to say more nice things when playing in the sky. On 24th, all the families got together for the "off-year" and cleaned the stadium on 28th. The most grand event is the New Year's Eve of the twelfth lunar month. When the wanderer comes home, the whole family gets together for a reunion dinner, which is called a hearty New Year's Eve dinner. Chenzhou people like to eat sour radish and pork liver and intestines, which symbolizes that people should have liver and intestines; Hongjiang area likes to eat spring powder, which is covered with fish, meat, chicken, duck, hoof flower and ginger to show yes-men. Some people also have a bowl of four-season onion mixed with tofu, which means "four distinct seasons, good luck and good luck". On New Year's Eve, people have the custom of keeping New Year's Eve, sitting around the fire with their families, saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new. In many places, there is also the habit of burning firewood to make a fire, and taking the homonym of "wealth head", hoping for good luck in the new year.

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