Two days before and after the Spring Festival every year, people will stick couplets on their doors, beat gongs and drums, hang lanterns, decorate and bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. On New Year's Eve, the whole family will sit together and have a New Year's Eve dinner. People will set off firecrackers at night. On New Year's Eve, an old woman and a young woman put on new clothes and ate rice cakes and jiaozi, hoping that the new year would be "high and round". On the second day of the lunar new year, friends and relatives invite each other as guests, which is usually called "New Year greetings", and some people eat "New Year wine". When you pay New Year greetings, you should first pay New Year greetings to your closest elders, and then pay New Year greetings to each other among peers. The elders will give red envelopes to their children.

Xianning people usually start a busy year as soon as they enter the twelfth lunar month. Busy years are mainly divided into cleaning up, washing and drying, buying new clothes and buying new year's goods. In the week before the Chinese New Year, there are many tasks to be done, such as cleaning the walls, cleaning the glass, painting the house, frying fish, fried dough sticks, steaming jujube cakes, filling sausages, frying peanut seeds, taking a bath, and having a haircut ... Although there are many New Year gift boxes on the market now, many families still keep their own habits of making sauces and pasta, and the custom of "enema every year" still exists. Traditionally, the Spring Festival in the world began in the early years, that is, the sacrificial furnace on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month. The folk song "23rd, cantaloupe stick" refers to this day. Off-year is the beginning and foreshadowing of the whole Spring Festival celebration, and there are two main activities: sweeping the New Year and offering sacrifices to stoves. Almost from this time, Xianning people entered the sprint stage of busy years.