The custom of New Year's Day.

The custom of New Year's Day includes walking on the colorful bridge and eating roasted zygotes. The taboo is to avoid breaking utensils, mourn for your family and call a doctor.

Caiqiao, a custom of Hangtou Bridge with strong local color, is an important folk custom in Chaoshan. As night falls and the lights are on, people flock to the Rainbow Bridge in small groups to help the old and the young. When crossing the first bridge, people will pick off the branches and bamboo leaves of the banyan tree at the bridge head and make four sentences each: Take off the banyan leaves and you will get rich every day. Take them home and put them on the door cap for good luck.

On the eleventh day of the first month, there is a custom of eating zygotes in old Beijing. The ancients thought that ten was a perfect and beautiful number. Adding a number in front of ten numbers means a new beginning, so the four days before the Lantern Festival are considered as the time to worship the old times.

The main activities of New Year's Day.

On the eleventh day of the first month, Zigu was worshipped in southwest China, especially in western Hunan. According to folklore, it is called Ce Shen, and it is also called Zigu, Toilet Valley, Maogu, Kenggu and Kengsan. People all say that he can be a prophet. He often worships God at home and divines things. The earliest document that recorded Zi Gu was "Different Garden" written by Liu of Southern Song Dynasty. Generally speaking, Zigu is somebody else's concubine, so she is jealous of the original match. God has pity on her and named her Ce Shen.

On the eleventh day of the first lunar month, in Fuzhou, it was a small festival before the Yuan Dynasty, called Shangcai Festival. Shangcai Festival has a long history, which means to welcome spring and receive blessings. According to the traditional customs of Fuzhou, Fuzhou people have the habit of sending lanterns before the Lantern Festival. Grandparents usually give them to grandchildren. The time to send lanterns is usually from the eighth day of the first lunar month to the eleventh day of the first lunar month.