What are the customs on New Year's Day?

The customs of New Year's Day include yangko, walking on stilts, ancestor worship, dragon and lion dances, bonfire parties and flower lanterns.

The custom of New Year's Day in China is to set off firecrackers, worship all gods and kill chickens and geese. Major local stations will also hold New Year's Eve parties, perform and celebrate, and the whole family will sit around and watch and have dinner, which will be round, warm and happy. Eating jiaozi on New Year's Day was popular in northern Ming and Qing dynasties. For example, wanping county, a suburb of Beijing, said in the Wanbu Miscellanies written by Shen Bang during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty that "you can live a long life by making a flat food on the first day of the New Year." Eating rice cakes on New Year's Day was very popular in Ming and Qing Dynasties, especially in the south. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Volume II of Scenery of the Imperial Capital recorded that on the first day of the first month, "I was excited to wash, eat jujube cakes and eat rice cakes every day". In Jiajing, Hebei Province in the north, Wei County recorded that local people ate "steamed mutton cakes".

The following contents are for reference: Baidu Encyclopedia = New Year's Day