What is a big year and what is a small year?

The new year refers to the lunar new year, and the off-year refers to the festival of offering sacrifices to stoves.

Most northern areas call the festival of offering sacrifices to stoves on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month as off-year while many areas in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai call it off-year on the fifth day of the first month, which means people begin to prepare new year's goods.

New Year's Eve refers to the New Year. It is generally believed that from the last day of the year (except the Chinese New Year's Day) to the fifteenth day of the first month (Lantern Festival), the main traditional folk activities during the festival include eating New Year's Eve, giving lucky money, posting New Year's Eve, worshiping the gods, keeping New Year's Eve and setting off firecrackers.