The food eaten in the north and south of the twelfth lunar month is different, but it is all to welcome the arrival of the New Year. Jiaozi, the traditional food of the northern twelfth lunar month, is the custom of eating jiaozi to give the kitchen god on New Year's Eve in the north. There is a folk saying that jiaozi is delicious, but it is an essential food in the twelfth lunar month. Fire, fire This is a special seasonal food, which is very popular with people. Northerners usually prepare fires when they sacrifice stoves on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. Kitchen candy, kitchen candy is a sweet, crisp and sticky maltose.

The traditional food of the southern twelfth lunar month is rice cake, which is also called rice cake in many southern regions. After eating rice cakes, people's career life is getting better every year. Water chestnut, Fuzhou people will use water chestnut to worship the stove, taking the homonym of Fuzhou dialect, indicating good luck every year. The rice cake is made of glutinous rice flour, peanuts, sesame seeds and sugar, which means reunion. It is a traditional folk food of Wuxuan and Guiping. People often say that it is a ladder for the kitchen god to ascend to heaven, a necessary food for offering sacrifices to the kitchen god and a symbol of endless sweetness.

Introduction of the twelfth lunar month:

December is another name for the end of December. As early as Zhouyi and Zhou Li, there were records of Roufu and Vera. The original meaning of "wax" is "dried meat", and there are many names at the end of December, among which the most familiar is "twelfth month". This month's weather is most suitable for air-drying bacon, so it is called "twelfth lunar month". Because the end of1February is in the transition period from the old to the new, it is a month with more sacrifices.

As early as the pre-Qin period, it was convenient for some places in China to hold the "year-end festival" in the month of the handover of the old and the new. Due to the nicknames of "December" and "La Dong" at the end of the year, the sacrifice held this month is called "La Worship". In ancient times, there were many nicknames for the moon, and each nickname had a different meaning. In addition to the nickname "twelfth month", there are other nicknames, such as late winter, late winter, Jiaping winter, Jidong and severe winter. Now the twelfth lunar month usually refers to the December of the lunar calendar.