In the old custom, the Spring Festival begins at : on the first day of the first lunar month. In all parts of Shandong, parents usually get up first to "hand out paper" and put a fire whip before opening the door before speaking. Men worship the gods of heaven and earth under the leadership of parents.

The first meal during the Spring Festival is jiaozi. When cooking jiaozi, set off firecrackers. In order to drive away evil and seek good luck, sesame stalks are used to cook jiaozi in some areas, which means that the new year is like sesame blossoms, and the days are getting better and better. Jiaozi has to cook more than enough, and steamed bread should be put in the pot after dinner, which is intended to be more than enough.

after the dumplings are cooked, first serve a bowl to worship heaven and earth, and then serve a bowl to worship the kitchen god. When eating, in addition to one bowl per person, one or two bowls should be served, in order to hope that the population will prosper. Eating jiaozi is full of festive atmosphere. In the Spring Festival, jiaozi is full of money, dates, chestnuts, etc. Eating red dates means that you can get up early in the new year and work hard to get rich; Eating chestnuts means that you can make great efforts and sweat in the new year; If you eat peanuts, you can live a long life; If you eat money, you can get rich. No matter who eats one of them, everyone sincerely congratulates. If the child gets the money, the parents are even more happy. They think that the child is promising. Besides encouragement, they should also be rewarded with money to show their congratulations. Many places eat vegetarian stuffing jiaozi on the first day of the month, which means "a quiet year". In Linqing, we eat all kinds of steamed buns, jujube cakes, sticky nests, etc. for breakfast on the first day of junior high school, supplemented by all kinds of meatballs, vermicelli and Chinese cabbage, which is called "eating all-year meals".

The custom of greeting the New Year during the Spring Festival has a long history and is still enduring. First of all, family worship, in a family, the younger generation pays New Year greetings to the elders, and the peers pay New Year greetings to each other; Later, the worship is to pay a new year call to the elders who have not served five clothes; Finally, it is a distant worship. It is given that the elders and relatives and friends of Wufu should kowtow in the old New Year, but now they just say hello.