People in Wuxi attach great importance to the winter solstice. There is a saying that the winter solstice is as big as a year. The day before the winter solstice is called "winter solstice night", and a family, old and young, get together for a winter solstice night meal. If someone is not at home, leave your seat, set up a pair of bowls and chopsticks, and symbolically hold something to eat to show your mind. Before dinner, worship the ancestors first. After the sacrifice, put the food back into the pot to burn. Eat without burning, saying that memory will decline. Putting soybeans in rice is called "Yuanbao rice", and putting two cooked water chestnuts in the rice bowl in advance and taking them out when eating is called "Jianbao rice". Rich people eat a lot at the winter solstice dinner. "The rich eat all night, and the poor freeze all night". On the morning of winter solstice, which is called "winter solstice", we eat glutinous rice dumplings overnight. Therefore, there is a poem saying, "Every family will have a reunion and know that it is the winter solstice tomorrow." According to historical legend, the winter solstice is the New Year's Day of the Zhou Dynasty, so there is another saying in Wuxi that eating the winter solstice meal will last a year, commonly known as "adding the year".

The last night in December is called New Year's Eve, commonly known as New Year's Eve. The night before was called Xiao Nian 30, commonly known as Xiao Nian 30. Before New Year's Eve, every household should clean and dust to welcome the New Year. A certain proportion of glutinous rice and japonica rice are ground into powder and made into rice cakes, symbolizing high year after year. Brush off the old Spring Festival couplets on the door and paste new ones to show that the old ones have been updated. On New Year's Eve, families worship their ancestors, burn incense, light candles, burn paper money and offer rich sacrifices, which shows people's respect for their ancestors. After the sacrificial ceremony, the whole family, men, women and children, sat together to have a New Year's Eve dinner (also known as "family fun"). In the evening, some people put a new statue of the kitchen god in the kitchen shrine, put red paper couplets on both sides of it, and offer offerings, commonly known as "taking the kitchen", to take back the kitchen god who played in heaven on February 24th. Some people hang the statue of Zhong Kui to avoid sneaking around. Farmers are still painting grain storage with lime in the open space in front of their houses, hoping for a bumper harvest. Before going to bed, there are three "closed doors". Some people still keep vigil on New Year's Eve, pack jiaozi and cut cakes to stay awake in the light.

The ninth day of September is the Double Ninth Festival. In ancient times, odd numbers were used as yang, and the two yang overlapped on the ninth day of September, so it was called Chongyang, also known as Nine. People in Wuxi generally eat Chongyang cake, and some also eat Jiupin cake (soup made from nine kinds of fruits such as water chestnut and lotus nut), which means sweet and smooth. The main activity of this day is mountain climbing. Now, the Double Ninth Festival has been designated as the festival to respect the elderly, in order to carry forward the tradition of respecting the elderly in China.

The seventh night in July is called Tanabata, which is the legendary day when cowherd and weaver girl meet every year. The longest and most widespread custom in Chinese Valentine's Day is "begging for cleverness". That night, the girls tied colored threads and put on seven-hole needles. If you dress quickly, you will find it difficult to beg. During the day, some girls put a coffee table in the yard with a bowl of Yuanyang water mixed with well water and river water, and put the embroidery needles in the bowl one by one to judge the begging skills according to various projections in the sun. Some women collect all kinds of flowers, put them in copper pots filled with water, expose them to the sun in the yard, and take them to wipe their faces the next day. It is said that they can make the skin delicate and self-purifying. Some women mash daffodils, take juice and dye their ring finger and little finger nails, which are called "red nails". Some women also sang "Begging for Qiao": "Begging for Qiao, begging for appearance, begging for heart, begging for appearance, begging for parents for a thousand years, begging for sisters for a thousand years." The custom of begging for wisdom no longer exists today, only the legend of cowherd and weaver girl is left.

August 15th is the Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Reunion Festival. People in Wuxi celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival. They eat braised taro in the morning and moon cakes at night. This custom continues to this day, and many mass organizations hold Mid-Autumn Festival parties to enhance friendship.

People in Wuxi began to grow vegetables and fruit trees. Silkworm farmers hatch eggs in cotton-padded clothes on Qingming night. On this day, people go to Huishan for an outing. Those who don't go to Huishan, go to the city wall and walk around the city. This is called climbing the mountain for an outing. Torinji, the East Gate, is a gathering place for literati and poets, so there is a saying that "Torinji sees peach blossoms". This day is also the sacrifice ground for Jiao Shan in Dongxiang and Doosan in Beixiang, and there are competitions nearby, so Doosan is also called Qingming Mountain. People go hiking in the mountains, catch up with festivals and watch games. From Lantern Festival to Tomb-Sweeping Day, adults and children fly kites in groups of three and five in the wild. Tomb-Sweeping Day's worship of ancestral graves (commonly known as "going to graves") is a traditional folk custom in Wuxi. Pick some new soil to fill the grave when sweeping the grave. Every new grave must be swept before Qingming; Old graves can be cleared, but not in the long summer. The new wife must visit the ancestral grave, commonly known as "going to the flower grave". When sweeping the grave, watch it with meat, and pay homage with wine and rice. Later, it was used to replace fruits and cakes.