Yuyao's Chinese New Year customs include: dusting, writing Spring Festival couplets, setting off firecrackers, taking photos of locusts, eating dumplings, making sugar tea, praying to the ancestors, performing operas and dancing dragons.

first, "dusting" means general cleaning, such as cleaning the home or the surrounding area and cleaning some utensils. "Some villages often organize villagers to carry out extensive cleaning to clean up weeds and garbage, which means' clean the New Year'."

The custom of washing "tiger feet" on the 25th night of the twelfth lunar month means "looking forward to health in the coming year". But now that conditions are better, washing feet is a very common thing, so this custom has been "forgotten" by many people.

Second, "writing Spring Festival couplets" is a traditional custom that has lasted well. Every year, the City Calligraphers Association organizes a group of calligraphers to write Spring Festival couplets for the citizens.

In the old days, Spring Festival couplets included many words of blessing, such as "The days are getting longer, people are getting longer, and the spring is full of blessings". Today, Spring Festival couplets still write some auspicious sentences, but the content is more novel and full of the flavor of the times, and many people will paste the word "fu" upside down.

Third, "setting off firecrackers" is a very old folk custom, which means "exorcising evil spirits and praying for peace". There are firecrackers on New Year's Eve and firecrackers on the first day of the first month.

In ancient times, bamboo was directly used to burn fire in Siming Mountain area, because bamboo would make a "bang" sound when burning. For the sake of environmental protection and safety, it is suggested to set off firecrackers as little as possible.

Fourth, Yuyao also has a "sweet" custom-making sugar tea. It is the highest etiquette for entertaining guests during the Spring Festival. Generally, brown sugar is used. Now that the conditions are good, white sugar is used. When someone comes home to pay New Year's greetings, he should be given a cup of sugar tea for the first time. I hope his New Year's day will be as sweet as sugar.

There are candied teas with kumquat and osmanthus in the Spring Festival. "If you don't send a cup of sugar tea, the guests will whisper in their hearts that they are not enthusiastic and don't even have a cup of sugar tea." Yang Pengfei said.