What are the traditional customs that can feel the flavor of the year?

On New Year's Eve in the northern countryside of China, the whole family stayed up late, including jiaozi, watching the Spring Festival Gala and playing mahjong. The fire on the 30 th of the year must be big, symbolizing prosperity. Just after zero, every family scrambled to get up early and set off firecrackers to welcome the New Year. Women are busy taking the firewood prepared in advance home and leaving it outside the door, because in Ankang dialect, "firewood" and "wealth" are homophonic, meaning "wealth enters the house". After the firecrackers were set off, they began to eat jiaozi. At this time, children should not talk nonsense, for fear of saying unlucky things, so they have to eat jiaozi. After eating jiaozi, adults can go to bed, while children go to pay New Year greetings to their elders at home. Of course, a few years ago, they had to kneel down and say, "Grandpa, I'll pay a New Year call to you." Grandpa smiled and took out red envelopes for the children. From grade one to grade three, I don't eat noodles because I feel that noodles are intertwined and the wood is messy.