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What do you do on New Year's Day?

On the second day of New Year's Day, customs mainly include eating New Year's Eve dinner and going home to pay New Year's greetings.

It is a brand-new beginning to lift the taboos such as fasting in the second day of junior high school, commonly known as "opening the year". The custom of opening the new year is to eat "New Year's Eve". This meal is usually made of seaweed, lettuce, fish and so on. , intended to make money, lilu. Modern people also put New Year's Eve in restaurants. Some suburban villages still retain the custom of "releasing", buying live carp, covering the eyes of the fish with red paper, and putting them into the river pond after offering sacrifices to the gods.

The second day of the first month is the traditional Children's Day, and children should pay New Year greetings to their parents-in-law. The daughter who got married on this day went back to her mother's house and asked her husband to go with her, so it was commonly known as "Wedding Day". Daughters who go back to their parents' home must bring some gifts and bags to their children and have lunch at their parents' home.