New Year’s Day customs include eating rice cakes, dumplings, drinking Tusu wine, eating soup cakes, and sending greeting cards.

1. Eating rice cakes: It flourished in the north during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. As recorded in the "Wanshu Miscellaneous Notes" written by Shen Bang during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Wanping County in the suburbs of Beijing made flat food on New Year's Day and offered it to the elders as a longevity treat. Eating rice cakes on New Year's Day became popular in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, especially in the south. Volume 2 of "A Brief Introduction to the Scenery of the Imperial Capital" in the late Ming Dynasty records that on New Year's Day of the first lunar month, people eat jujube cakes and rice cakes every day. "Wei County Chronicle" during the Jiajing period in Hebei Province in the north said that "steamed sheep cake" was eaten locally. Rice cake means getting better every year. Eating rice cake on New Year's Day means that life is getting better and better, and it means that the days are getting more prosperous.

2. Eating dumplings: Dumplings are a must-have food on New Year's Day. They have a history of more than 1,800 years and take the meaning of "New Year's Day". Dumplings are the representative of Chinese cuisine.

3. Drink Tusu wine. Tusu wine is a kind of wine that is drunk on New Year's Day, so it is also called New Year's wine. Tusu is a kind of house in ancient times. Because the wine is brewed in this kind of house, it is called Tusu wine. Among the few famous historical and cultural wines in China, Tusu wine is unique and has unparalleled cultural connotation.

4. Eating soup cakes: In ancient times, wheat flour products were boiled in water. Soup cakes are noodles. In the Song Dynasty, it was popular to eat noodles and other foods on New Year's Day.

5. Sending greeting cards: According to relevant historical records, during the Tianshun period of the Ming Dynasty in my country, New Year cards had already appeared among the people. Every New Year's Day is the time to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Relatives and friends send New Year's cards to each other to wish them a happy new year. During the Ming Dynasty, some people used two-inch wide and three-inch long paper to print beautiful and exquisite plum blossom patterns on it, and neatly wrote their names and addresses, and sent them to relatives and friends to express their blessings.