Things that must be done during the Spring Festival include: sweeping dust, pasting Spring Festival couplets, pasting window grilles, pasting blessing characters upside down, pasting New Year pictures, buying New Year's goods, staying up late, watching the Spring Festival Gala, setting off firecrackers, paying New Year greetings, etc.

Dust sweeping is the year-end cleaning. Every household has to clean the environment, wash various utensils, remove and wash bedding and curtains, sweep the Liulv courtyard, brush away the dust and dirt cobwebs, and dredge the open channels and underground ditches. Everywhere is filled with the joyful atmosphere of doing hygiene and welcoming the New Year cleanly.

"Sweeping the dust, also known as sweeping the house, sweeping the house, removing dust, removing debris, dusting, dusting, etc., is one of the traditional Chinese New Year customs. The busy New Year is mainly to remove the old and cloth the new. The theme of the activity is to sweep the dust at the end of the year. It is called "house sweeping" in the south and "house sweeping" in the north. Its purpose is to sweep away all "bad luck" and "bad luck", which is a kind of Chinese nation's way of warding off evil spirits and eliminating disasters. , the best wishes for good luck and good fortune. The folk song says: "Twenty-four, dust-sweeping day."