The custom of New Year's Day includes eating jiaozi, eating rice cakes, viewing lanterns and offering sacrifices to ancestors, and setting off firecrackers. The custom of New Year's Day is also divided between the north and the south. Northerners are popular to eat jiaozi and southerners are popular to eat rice cakes. Every New Year's Day, northerners will eat jiaozi and jiaozi, which flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The Quwo County Records records: "Two-day flat food is guaranteed, and husbands are invited to compete for happiness.

There are many kinds of jiaozi on New Year's Day. The fillings in jiaozi include pork, fish, three fresh fillings, leeks, beef, mutton, mushrooms, tomatoes and eggs, as well as crown dumplings, butterfly dumplings, goldfish dumplings and lace dumplings.

Eating rice cakes on New Year's Day prevailed in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and it was very popular in the southern region. It was recorded in Volume II of "A Brief Introduction to the Scenery of the Imperial Capital" at the end of the Ming Dynasty that "it is exciting to eat jujube cakes and eat rice cakes every day".

The customs of New Year's Day are:

1, eat jiaozi

Eating jiaozi on New Year's Day flourished in the north of Ming and Qing Dynasties. For example, wanping county, a suburb of Beijing, said in Shen Bang's Miscellaneous Notes of Wan Department during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, "Make a flat meal on New Year's Day, and serve a long life."

Eating rice cakes on New Year's Day was popular in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, especially in the south. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Volume II of "A Brief Introduction to the Scenery of the Imperial Capital" recorded that on New Year's Day of the first month, "I was excited to wash, eat jujube cakes, and eat rice cakes every day". In Jiajing, Hebei Province in the north, Wei County Records said that local people ate "steamed mutton cakes".

2. Drink pepper and cypress wine

It has appeared in the Four People's Moon Order in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Pepper is Zanthoxylum bungeanum. The ancients said that pepper is the essence of Yuhengxing, with a fragrant smell, which makes people light and resistant to old age. Cypress is cypress leaf, which was regarded as an elixir by the ancients, and it can avoid all diseases. Pepper and cypress can be soaked in wine separately, or they can be put into wine together for drinking. Drinking pepper and cypress wine can get rid of illness and live longer. Drinking pepper and cypress wine has been handed down among the people, and it has been practiced in Licheng, Shandong Province and Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province in the Ming Dynasty.

3. Drink peach soup

That is, take the leaves, branches and stems of peaches and drink them by boiling. The ancients took peaches as the essence of the five elements, which could resist evil spirits. Make a hundred ghosts, so drink them. Eating soup cake: ancient food where wheat flour products were boiled in water. Soup cake is noodles. Noodles and other foods were popular on New Year's Day in Song Dynasty.