Pasting Spring Festival couplets, making dumplings, having reunion dinner, and paying New Year greetings.

1. Pasting Spring Festival couplets: Pasting Spring Festival couplets is an important custom during the Chinese New Year in Henan.

Spring couplets, also known as "door pairs" and "couples", are two poems with neat contrasts and related meanings. They are written on paper, cloth and bamboo and posted on the doorways and doorframes of homes.

2. Making dumplings: In Henan, every household makes dumplings on New Year’s Eve.

Dumplings are one of the most important traditional foods for Henan people during the Chinese New Year.

The choice of fillings is also very unique, including pork, leeks, tofu, etc.

3. Have a reunion dinner: The Henan Spring Festival reunion dinner is eaten after New Year’s Eve.

It is a very sumptuous dinner. The family will prepare various delicacies, such as braised pork, steamed fish, stewed chicken, etc.

The family sits together, enjoys this delicious meal, and celebrates the arrival of the new year.

4. New Year greetings: On the first day of the Lunar New Year, people in Henan will pay New Year greetings to each other.

It is a traditional social custom to go to the homes of relatives and friends to send New Year blessings and love.