Although off-year is a holiday, there is not much pressure. You can go to other people's homes on this day every year, and there is no feng shui taboo. Off-year just means the beginning of Chinese New Year, not the real Chinese New Year.
But on New Year's Eve, you need to spend it by yourself! New Year's Eve belongs to the day of family reunion, and we should also reunite with our own families. There is also a saying that "New Year is celebrated in winter", so it is necessary to eat at home on New Year's Eve, winter solstice and other days. For other solar terms, families who don't pay attention will not care too much, and there are not many taboos.
Traditional habits of off-year in various places
Off-year has different concepts and dates in different places. It's the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month in the north and the 24th of the twelfth lunar month in the south. In Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, the 24th of the twelfth lunar month and the night before New Year's Eve are all called off-year. In Nanjing, the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month is called off-year. The 16th day of the first month is celebrated in some parts of Yunnan, and New Year's Eve is celebrated in some minority areas in the southwest and north.
Off-year also means that people begin to prepare for new year's goods and have a clean and good year, which indicates that the new year will have a new atmosphere and expresses the good wishes of the working people in our country to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.