People often worship the Kitchen God, clean their houses, do their shopping, and put up Spring Festival couplets(blessing words posted on door frames) until New Year's Eve on the lunar calendar.
Even the fish on the plate expresses a hope for nian nian you yu-yu means both " fish" and " plenty" in Chinese- " May you get more than you wish for every year" .
The verses on the Spring Festival couplets reflect the characteristics of the traditional chinese poetry, and the two lines have the same number of words and related the content.