First, the traditional food of off-year in southern China.
1, rice cake
Off-year, generally, the north pays attention to making jiaozi, while the south is more accustomed to making rice cakes. The shape of jiaozi is like a "gold ingot" and the sound of rice cakes is like a "rice cake", which is a good sign of good luck. Every year in the south, it is a day for every family to steam and eat rice cakes, which means to stick the mouth of the kitchen god and let him talk about the good things in the sky and not the bad things in the world. In addition, Hainan people use coconuts as ingredients to make coconut cakes for eating and praying, which means "high every year".
2. Rice cake
People in Wuxuan, Guiping and other places in Guangxi have the custom of making rice cakes. The rice cake is made of glutinous rice flour as the main material, peanuts, sesame seeds and sugar as the ingredients, put into a mold to make it round, and then steamed at high temperature, with a unique flavor and the meaning of "round and round".
3. Nianzong
Nanning people had the custom of eating "Nianzong" in their early years. Nianzong is a symbol of good luck in the New Year. As the saying goes, "every year, every year, every year, high school (zong)." The New Year's Zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is different from Liang Zongzi. It has stuffing, big and small, long and short, round and flat. After peeling off the leaves, the skin is glutinous rice, and the stuffing is mung bean and pork. Some people use their favorite food as stuffing.
4. year of killing pigs
In Gongcheng Yao Autonomous County, there is a custom of killing pigs for the New Year in Landong of Lotus, Xinhe of Xiling and Shuian Village of Guanyin. After the Lunar New Year's Eve, the lively pig-killing drama will be staged. Pick out the best meat, stir-fry or stew it, cook it carefully, then fill a glass of wine and invite friends and relatives to share the first piece of fresh meat after the pig was slaughtered in 2008-Dongtang.
5. Tangyuan
Southerners eat glutinous rice balls on the solstice, New Year's Day, New Year's Day and Lantern Festival in winter, and the varieties are complete and diverse.
Step 6 water chestnut
Sugarcane and water chestnut are essential to sacrifice stoves in old Fuzhou, which means "sweet". Water chestnut is a homonym in Fuzhou dialect, which means "good luck lasts from the beginning of the year to the end of the year".
7,24 regiments
"Eating jiaozi for 24 hours" is a custom in many places in the south of the Yangtze River, which means family reunion and happiness. In Suzhou, it is necessary to pack jiaozi, send jiaozi and eat jiaozi every year on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month.
The most important sacrifice on the cooking stove of Suzhou people is jiaozi, formerly called "Twenty-four Regiments". "Twenty-four Tuans" are made of glutinous rice flour, and the fillings are fresh meat, bean paste, shredded radish and so on. There are marks on steamed dumplings, which are round, square and petal-shaped to distinguish different fillings.
8.sugar cane
Sugarcane sells very well on this day of off-year Sugarcane is a necessary thing for offering sacrifices to stoves because of its beautiful meaning of "rising sun". Sugarcane is a ladder for the kitchen god to ascend to heaven, climbing section by section. Sugarcane with a tail tip has endless meanings.
9. Cooking sugar
Chef King Candy is a kind of candy product with malt and millet as raw materials, which has the shortest sales cycle and is only listed around the New Year. Sacrificing the stove with this candy is intended to stick the mouth of the kitchen god with the viscosity of the candy, so that it can "speak well in heaven and keep peace in the next world."
Second, the traditional food of the northern off-year
1, creature
The north usually eats jiaozi on the 23rd night of the twelfth lunar month, because the Kitchen God will be sent to heaven to report his work on this day. People cooked jiaozi and put it squarely on the altar, which means "send jiaozi to the windward side".
2. Sticky cake
In some areas of Shandong, steamed sticky cakes are eaten every year on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. Sticky cake is a kind of sweet cake, which is made of yellow rice and red dates. It is intended to stick the mouth of the kitchen god and let him only say good things when reporting to the jade emperor.
3. Sesame candy
In northwestern Shanxi, sesame candy is eaten on New Year's Eve. The sesame candy in Datong, Shanxi Province is boiled with high-quality millet, then mixed with ground millet flour, fermented and solidified by a special process, and made into various shapes of candy, including jade bone sesame candy, crisp sesame candy, stuffed sesame candy, melon egg candy, plate candy and so on. No matter what kind of sesame candy it is, it must stick to the mouth of the kitchen god so as not to report the delicious and luxurious things on earth to the sky.
4.kwantung sugar
Guandong candy, also known as Kitchen God candy, can only be eaten around off-year in a year. Kwantung sugar is a kind of sugar product with special flavor made from malt and millet. Guandong sugar is fragrant, crisp and sticky, and is mainly used for offering sacrifices to stoves. When offering sacrifices to the kitchen stove, you should use torches to melt the candy, and put it on the mouth of the kitchen god, so that he can't speak ill of the Jade Emperor.
5.honeydew melon
Twenty-three, cantaloupe stick, a folk song that many people should have heard. Melon is similar to kwantung sugar, except that kwantung sugar is long and flat, which is honeydew melon. It tastes crisp, sweet and sticky.
6. Stir-fry corn
Southeast Shanxi has the custom of eating fried corn on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. People use maltose to stick the fried corn together and freeze it into pieces, which tastes crisp, sweet and crisp.
7. Flower cotton
People in Shandong Peninsula are busy steaming jujube buns, reunion cakes, peaches and other pasta on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. Steamed noodles are also called noodles.
8. Fire
On New Year's Eve in Luohe and Pingdingshan, Henan, jiaozi is not eaten, and every household makes a fire to eat it. Sesame cake is also called sesame cake, which is almost equal to off-year The locals say that a small year without burning is not a complete small year.