Jiaozi is used to eating it in the northern New Year's Eve, which means to bid farewell to Kitchen God and "send away the windward side of jiaozi". When offering sacrifices, jiaozi should be placed on the platform. In addition, there is a folk saying that it is not as good as jiaozi, and during the Spring Festival, jiaozi has become a timely and indispensable food.
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.
Most people in Shandong Peninsula have been busy making jujube cakes (also called big steamed buns), reunion cakes, peaches and other noodles since the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, indicating that the whole family is reunited and the days are more than enough. There is a folk song "Twenty-three, Sticking Cakes" in Luxi, Shandong Province. Every year on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, it is the day when every family steamed and ate sticky 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.
Small festival
In the off-year, the traditional festivals in China, also known as "New Year Festival", "Kitchen God Festival" and "Festival of offering sacrifices to stoves", are mainly folk activities such as sweeping dust and offering sacrifices to stoves. China has a vast territory and different customs. Due to different customs, the days called "off-year" are also different. Most of southern China is the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, and northern China is the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai call "the 24th of the twelfth lunar month" and "the night before New Year's Eve" off-year years.
Off-year is usually considered as the beginning of a busy year, which means that people begin to prepare new year's goods, sweep dust and offer sacrifices to stoves. And prepare for a clean and beautiful year to express people's good wishes to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Sacrificial stoves have a history of several thousand years in China, which reflects the dream of China people to have enough food and clothing.