There are two main activities: sweeping the New Year and offering sacrifices to stoves. Besides, we also have the custom of eating kwantung sugar. In some places, we also eat fire, sugar cakes, oil cakes and tofu soup.
In order to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, China has the custom of "sweeping the dust" in the off-year period. In fact, it is to engage in family environmental sanitation. Northerners take the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month as a new year, which is called "cleaning". Southerners regard the 24th of the twelfth lunar month as the Lunar New Year, which is called "blowing dust". On this day, every household gets up at dawn, cleans houses, cleans windows, washes clothes, washes pots and pans, and makes a thorough cleaning to welcome the arrival of the New Year.
Sacrifice the kitchen stove. Every year on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the Kitchen God will report the good and evil of this family to the Jade Emperor, so that the Jade Emperor can reward and punish them. Therefore, when sending stoves, people will put candy, water, beans and grass on the console table in front of the statue of the kitchen god, and the last three are for the kitchen god's mount to ascend to heaven. When offering sacrifices to the stove, you should melt the Guandong sugar with fire and put it on the mouth of the kitchen god. In this way, he can't speak ill of the jade emperor There is a folk custom that "men don't Yue Bai, women don't offer sacrifices to stoves", so the owner of offering sacrifices to stoves is limited to men.