Beijing: When the market opens on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year in Beijing, the shopkeeper will lead all the fellows to offer sacrifices to the gods, and after the sacrifices, the gods and the paper money will be invited to the door, and put them on the sesame stalks and the pine branches on the shelves to be burned, which is called "sending the gods". Fellows also go to rent a variety of percussion instruments, the outside of the firecrackers, the inside began to beat the gongs and drums, shaking the abacus, the opening of a bustling, said "loud and clear, great luck. The eighth day of the first month is called "Shunxing". It is said that each person's annual luck how, completely manipulated in the hands of his personal year of the stars, and the eighth day of the first month of the year is "all the stars down to the world," the day to the temple to burn incense to the stars, you can get the blessing of the stars. If in the home "Shun Xing", is in the eighth night and other stars out of all, in the courtyard on the incense, for the "Star God 禡", to the Lantern as offerings, and then five-color Lantern flower paper, twisted into one hundred and eight Lantern flower, with oil soaked in the coarse magnetic made of small lamps, lit up scattered in the courtyard everywhere, you can go to the disaster.
Shandong:
Ningyang County on New Year's Day to eat wontons, known as "fill the warehouse", Huang County, Penglai area, New Year's Day, get up early to light the virtual consumption. By the hostess holding a red candle, all corners of the home to shine once, meaning that the light to expel the darkness, and then will be years ago to flour made of all kinds of window flowers on the windowsill. When children get up, they have to climb the door hitch to play three swings, which is said to make them grow faster. Some areas to cook dumplings with sesame straw fire, meaning that the new year like sesame flowers, rising, after the meal in the pot to be put on the steamed bread, meaning that there is a "surplus head. Jiaodong's new daughter-in-law in the first year to her husband's grandfather's home to pay homage, known as "Zagan"
Hunan:
Xinhua New Year's Day must be prepared for the very hearty breakfast, it is believed that the first meal of the New Year, the more hearty that the more abundant the harvest of the year. In Changsha, it is customary to set off firecrackers to welcome visitors to the New Year. After being seated, send two betel nut, known as Yuanbao, wishing it the meaning of wealth.