In the first month, everyone will bow to each other and send blessings to each other. Drums and concerts are loud, and the atmosphere will be very warm. Everyone will drink and chew to celebrate the New Year. Beside the doors everywhere, mahogany boards and ordinary charcoal will be set up, and door gods will be affixed to the doors. Portraits of Shen Fu, Ghost Judge and Zhong Kui will be hung indoors. There are eight treasures of gold, silver and Xifan scriptures hanging on the bed. People burn incense and set off firecrackers every five days.

On the seventh day of the first month, it is "People's Day". On this day, everyone will eat spring cakes and vegetables. The fifteenth day of the first lunar month. From the ninth day of the first month, there are activities such as playing lantern market and buying lanterns. On the fifteenth day of the first month, we eat Yuanxiao. At that time, the making method of Yuanxiao was: making fruit stuffing with glutinous rice flour, walnut kernel and sugar; Sprinkle water on the filling and roll it up; Make Yuanxiao. At that time, the Lantern Festival was as big as walnuts. That is, the glutinous rice balls called by Jiangnan that day.

At this time, the foods advocated by everyone are winter bamboo shoots, whitebait, pigeon eggs, spicy live rabbits, Rattus norvegicus, half-winged chicken and so on. At this time, there are Miluo oranges and Fengwei oranges in the south of the Yangtze River, and Zhangzhou oranges, olives, kumquat, Fengling, crisp lotus roots, apples and soft pomegranates in the west mountain for the imperial court to eat. In addition, there are live shrimps for cooking underwater.

Mingdu's local cuisines include roast goose, chicken and duck, pork, sheep tail slices, stir-fried lamb tripe, pig enema, sleeves, oil kidney, sausage double, pork, crispy jiaozi, roast goose and bamboo shoots chicken, fried fish and steamed fried willow. At that time, there was chicken fir in southern Yunnan; Mushrooms such as smallpox lamb tripe and chicken leg silver plate in Wutai Mountain; Stone flowers, sea cucumbers, dragon whiskers, kelp, antlers and lavers in the East China Sea. Artemisia bamboo shoots, rotten bamboo shoots and mushrooms in Jiangnan; Pine nuts in Liaodong; Yellow flowers and gold needles in northern Jiangsu; Shi Jing's indigenous medicine and potatoes; Moss in Du Nan; Hawk-billed bamboo shoots, Polygonatum sibiricum, Wudang black essence; Hazelnut, chestnut, pear, jujube, walnut, coptis tea, magnolia flower, bracken and wild vegetables in Beishan; There are really countless.