There are many Spring Festival customs in Beijing.

From the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, every household wanted to soak laba vinegar (garlic), and it began to have a "taste of the year". The folk song says, "Don't be upset, old lady. It's New Year after Laba. Laba porridge, how many days? Li Li La La Twenty-three ",the twenty-third of the twelfth lunar month is also called" off-year ". There is a ballad that says, "Candied melons offer sacrifices to the stove. When the New Year comes, girls want flowers and boys want guns.". From this day on, Beijingers are more busy, offering sacrifices to stoves, sweeping houses, steaming steamed buns, buying new year's goods, putting up the word "Fu", putting up New Year pictures, cutting window grilles and putting up couplets. Sticking to the door, sticking to money, has been busy until New Year's Eve, starting the New Year.