Local people always buy soy sauce before the Spring Festival, which is a unique custom in Zhenjiang and has lasted 30 years. “Buying soy sauce is must to have a prosperous new year.” It is out of imagination that buying soy sauce is an indispensable event for the celebration of the new year in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province. People with bottles and barrels line up for hundreds of meters to buy soy sauce. Local people believe that it is a silent expectation for the new year.