"New Year's Eve" is the most important content in the New Year's Eve. On this day, children in other places will be reunited at home no matter how far away. If you really can't go home, you should vacate a seat and put chopsticks on it when you eat the New Year's Eve, which is regarded as complete. Eel owl, crab with red paste, fish and rice cake are essential dishes for Ningbo people.

observing the new year is the custom of staying up late to welcome the new year on the last night of the old year. It is also called observing the new year's eve, and its common name is "endure the new year". In ancient times, there were two meanings of observing the old age: the old people's observing the old age means "resigning the old age", which means cherishing time; Young people keep their age to prolong the life of their parents. On New Year's Eve, people of all ages, men and women, will be brightly lit and get together to watch the new year.

Children kowtow to their elders to celebrate the New Year, and adults give children "lucky money". Because "adoration" and "age" are homophonic, "suppressing adoration" means "suppressing age", which means suppressing ghosts and preventing them from causing trouble.

it's a day, and eating dumplings in the morning means reunion. The biggest feature of this custom is to let the household utensils "rest" for one day, without sweeping the floor, begging for fire (not igniting others or lighting cigarettes), killing animals, not moving knives and scissors, not emptying the toilet, not washing clothes, not beating and scolding children or saying unlucky things.

On the first day of New Year's Day, when the host gets up, he opens the door first and sets off firecrackers at the door, which is called "opening the door cannon". Generally, there are three guns for opening the door, so it is necessary to "take four and release three" and leave one as a "standby gun". In Ningbo dialect, "standby gun" is published here.

The higher the firecrackers are, the louder they will sound, indicating good luck in the New Year. If it's a squib, it's bad luck. You should immediately say, "Oh, blow it, you'll make a fortune this year." And immediately add one.