The Scottish New Year's celebration that includes “first-footing” is Hogmanay.
First-footing refers to the first person to enter a household after midnight. Traditional Scottish custom considers the first visitor's arrival significant for the household's luck in the coming year. A classic first-footer may bring symbolic gifts such as coal, shortbread, salt, or whisky, representing warmth, food, flavor, and hospitality.
Hogmanay is the Scottish name for New Year's Eve and is associated with customs that developed from several older winter and year-end traditions. Modern celebrations can include street parties, concerts, torchlight processions, singing “Auld Lang Syne,” and a midnight toast. Edinburgh's Hogmanay festivities are internationally prominent, but celebrations occur throughout Scotland.
First-footing is a tradition rather than a single nationally fixed ceremony, so local details vary. The custom is sometimes described as requiring a dark-haired man as the first visitor, but that detail is traditional folklore, not a universal rule today.