The saying goes that on the first day of the year you eat dumplings and noodles, and on the third day you eat a box. Meaning that the first day of eating dumplings, there is a "happy reunion" and "good luck" meaning; the second eat noodles, there is a year of smooth meaning; the third box, folk custom that the third is the birthday of the grain, the day to fasting rice, implying that the next year to be able to get a bumper harvest, so the pasta eaten on this day is the box.

The third day of the first month of the year is also known as the small New Year's Day, also known as the Red Dog Day, as a traditional Chinese festival, according to legend, on this day Nuwa created the pig. Chinese folk to the first three days of the first month for the birthday of the grain, this day to pray for the year, and forbidden to eat rice. In the old days and nights on the third day and night of the New Year's Day, the pine and cypress branches and festivals hung door god door paper and other incineration, to show that the year has been over, and to start camping.