Pounded rice cake: Ruian people call it pounded rice cake. It is made from glutinous rice mixed with some indica rice and can be pressed into various shapes such as peonies and flat peaches. Rice cakes have the meaning of rising in popularity every year. Drying bacon: After entering the twelfth lunar month, when the weather is clear and dry, every household begins to dry soy sauce meat and eel fish in preparation for entertaining guests during the New Year. Dusting off the new: In order to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, every household sweeps away dust and dirt, paints the walls and decorates the room, washes the utensils and airs the clothes, taking this opportunity to wash away the dirt accumulated in the home over the year.

1. Pounded rice cake: Ruian folk call it pounded rice cake. It is made from glutinous rice mixed with some indica rice and can be pressed into various shapes such as peonies and flat peaches. Rice cakes have the meaning of rising in popularity every year.

2. Drying bacon: After entering the twelfth lunar month, when the weather is clear and dry, every household begins to dry soy sauce meat and eel fish in preparation for entertaining guests during the New Year.

3. Dusting off the new: In order to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, every household sweeps the dust and dirt, paints the walls and decorates the room, washes the utensils and airs the clothes, taking this opportunity to wash away the dirt accumulated in the home over the year.

4. Sacrifice to the stove: On the twenty-fourth night of the twelfth lunar month, the Kitchen God goes to heaven to announce the new year's events. He lights incense and candles in front of the stove, sets off firecrackers, fruit products, wine, especially maltose, to show that the Kitchen God is drunk and uses sugar. Keep your mouth shut, and you can only nod your head in greeting when you go to heaven to avoid divine punishment and receive blessings in the coming year.

5. Paste Spring Festival couplets, blessing characters and hang lanterns: Before New Year’s Eve, every house has pasted Spring Festival couplets and hung lanterns on its doors, pillars and windows. People yearn for a happy life and wish for a better future.