There is a folk saying that people lose their shoes on New Year's Eve.

We have a saying here: when sweeping the house on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, we clean up some old shoes that we don't wear, and then throw them out on New Year's Eve, which is called "taking off shoes" (homophonic with "exorcism"). Don't let others see the shoes when throwing them, otherwise the purpose of exorcism will not be achieved, so we always wrap the old shoes before throwing them. So a few days after the first day of the first month, I saw dozens of new shoes in the trash can. Don't pick it up and wear it yourself. It's time to take them home.