What are the customs of New Year's Day

Customs of New Year's Day in China: lighting firecrackers, worshipping gods and goddesses, and killing chickens and geese. Local stations also organize New Year's Day parties, performances to celebrate, families sit together to watch, dinner, reunion, cozy and happy. Eating dumplings on New Year's Day flourished in the north of the Ming and Qing dynasties. For example, according to Shen Bang's "Miscellaneous Records of the Wan Department" in the Wanli reign of Ming Dynasty, "flat food was made to serve to the elders for their longevity" on New Year's Day in Wanping County, which is a suburb of Beijing. New Year's Day rice cakes were popular in the Ming and Qing dynasties, especially in the south. In the late Ming Dynasty, it was recorded in Volume 2 of "The Scenery of the Imperial Capital" that on New Year's Day of the first month, "people ate jujube cake on the first day of the new year, and they ate rice cakes on the second day of the new year". North Hebei Jiajing "Wei County Zhi" said the local eat "steamed sheep cake".

For reference: Baidu Encyclopedia = New Year's Day