What candy to eat in the next year. The differences in food culture and environment between the north and the south have formed totally different holiday customs and habits between the north and the south. In the off-year period, many diets are traditional customs, and even sugar is divided into categories. Let's share with you what sugar to eat in the off-year period.

What kind of candy do you eat in the off-year 1 1, candied melon?

Candied melon, also known as stove candy, is mainly made of maltose, which is very sticky. When I was young, craftsmen would make it into sugar, draw it into a long candy stick and call it Guandong sugar, and pull it into a flat circle and call it candied melon. Put it outside in winter, because the weather is cold, the candied melon is solid and there are some tiny bubbles inside, which tastes crisp, sweet and fragrant, and has a special flavor.

2. Kwantung sugar

Guandong sugar is a unique candy around the off-year. It is also called Zaowang sugar and big pond. It is a sugar product made of malt and millet.

A large milky pond is placed on a square plate, usually three inches long and one inch wide, flat and silky. The newly made large pond is crisp, fragrant and sticky when you put it in your mouth, and children like it very much.

3. Popcorn candy

In the off-year, there will be many carts selling popcorn candy on the street. There is a folk proverb: "In off-year, rice candy is sweet." Every off-year, people will make popcorn candy with maltose and popcorn, which means a great fortune in the new year.

What kind of sugar do you eat in the next year?

(1) kwantung sugar

Guandong sugar is also called kitchen king sugar and big candy. In a year, it is only sold around the off-year period. Guandong sugar is a sugar product made of malt and millet, which is used to worship the kitchen god. A large piece of milky white sugar, placed on a square plate, is generally three inches long and one inch wide, flat and silky. A large piece of newly made candy is crisp, fragrant, sticky and has a special flavor when you put it in your mouth. It is a kind of candy that is very popular among men, women and children in Kanto. It has come down from the kitchen god's sacrificial table and is widely enjoyed by the people.

(2) Sugar melon

There is a folk song in Beijing, "Candied melons offer sacrifices to the stove". The first food to enter the festival is the candied melons used for "offering sacrifices to the stove". Candied melon is round and fat in appearance, made of maltose, slightly sour in sweetness. It is a good snack, but it is rare now.

(3) Sesame sugar

Sesame candy is a kind of cube candy that sticks fried rice, peanuts and dates together with syrup. It is used to "paste" the mouth of the kitchen god so that he can put in a good word in front of the Jade Emperor.

There is a saying in the northwest of Shanxi that "if you eat sesame candy at twenty-three, you can't eat sesame candy and bite your fingers". It is said that off-year is the day when the kitchen god goes to heaven, and he will report to the Heaven Emperor about the food and clothing consumption of the world in the past year and other things that the Heaven Emperor wants to know. That is, the kitchen god's debriefing day, eating sesame candy is to make the kitchen god's mouth stuck with sugar, and he can't report the delicious and luxurious scenes of the world to the sky, so as not to punish people who love to eat and drink-the New Year brings famine and hopes for a safe and prosperous year.

Time of off-year in different regions

—— Northern Region: the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month —— "Northern Small Year"

Since the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the emperors' families have held a ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. In order to "save money", they also paid homage to the Kitchen God, so most of the northern regions celebrated their off-year holidays on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month.

—— Southern region: the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month —— "Folk traditional off-year"

As early as the Song Dynasty, it was recorded that "the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month passed the off-year holiday", and in most parts of the south, the ancient tradition of celebrating off-year holiday on this day was still maintained.

-Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai: the day before New Year's Eve-"New Year's Eve"

Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai are used to calling New Year's Eve "New Year's Eve". Correspondingly, the night before New Year's Eve is called "New Year's Eve" and this day is also called "New Year's Eve". Historically, on the 24th night of the twelfth lunar month, Wu people call it 24 nights, which is the day to deliver the kitchen stove, because it is called Little New Year's Eve.

-parts of Sichuan and Guizhou: New Year's Eve-"off-year"

In some parts of southwest China, people will spend their New Year's Eve, and their New Year's Day usually falls on the 14th or 15th of the first month.

-Nanjing, Jiangsu and other places: the fifteenth day of the first month-"Lantern Festival"

According to legend, after Zhu Di, the founder of Ming Dynasty, usurped power and seized power, Nanjing people complained bitterly about his cruelty and tyranny, and missed the leniency of the last emperor through the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, so the Lantern Festival became a small year in Nanjing.

What sugar do you eat in the off-year 3. Can you eat rice in the off-year in the south?

The answer is naturally yes. First of all, you can eat rice when you are young in the south. Eating rice also indicates a bumper harvest in the new year, and you don't have to worry about eating and wearing. In addition, when the kitchen god is worshipped in the south, there must be a bowl of rice for the kitchen god to eat, so the rice that has been worshipped can't be discarded. Because the food offered for worship will be blessed by the gods, it is very auspicious, so the rice offered for worship will also be distributed to the family at dinner in the evening.

Second, what foods to eat in the off-year?

1, buckle meat

In the early years, southerners will prepare a bowl of braised pork to eat at night. Because of the poor conditions in the past, I can't eat meat every day, and I can only taste pork in my early years. This traditional diet custom has been passed down from ancient times to the present. Although the living conditions are good now, the diet custom of eating braised meat in off-year has not changed.

2. ruyi cuisine

Ruyi cuisine is an indispensable dish for southerners to prepare in their early years. Ruyi cuisine is cooked with bean sprouts and venetian blinds. Because the shape of soybean teeth is like a wishful thinking, it has a very good meaning, so eating Ruyi cuisine in the off-year is also a hope that everything will go well in the new year.

3. Wonton

Southerners have the custom of eating wonton in some festivals, so natural wonton is indispensable in the off-year period. Wonton is like one gold ingot after another. Eating wonton means rolling in financial resources.