The off-year in Lianyungang is the 24th of the twelfth lunar month.

Off-year, not just a day, is called "off-year" because of local customs. The twelfth lunar month, 23 in the north and 24 in the south, is determined according to local customs.

During the off-year period, the main folk activities include sweeping dust and offering sacrifices to stoves. Traditionally, the day of offering sacrifices to stoves is the 24th of the twelfth lunar month. In most parts of the south, the ancient tradition of celebrating the 24th of the twelfth lunar month is still maintained. Since the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the emperor's family held a ceremony to worship heaven on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. In order to "save money", they also pay homage to the kitchen god, so most northern regions celebrate the off-year holiday on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month.

Xiaonian diet

1, jiaozi: jiaozi is a must-have food for young children, which is very common in the north and a good moral. There is a custom of eating jiaozi in the northern New Year's Eve, which means to send away the kitchen god and watch jiaozi in the wind.

2, rice cake: the rice cake in the south is a very good food, and like potatoes, whether it is fried or stewed soup. When it comes to delicious rice cakes, the first thing that comes to mind is the south. In the hands of southerners, people can always make this kind of food diverse and delicious.

3. Sesame sugar: Sesame sugar is refined from selected glutinous rice, sesame seeds and maltose. It has no chemical pollution and no additives. It is a pure natural green food. Sesame sugar is famous for its unique flavor of fragrant, sweet, thin and crisp. It has the typical characteristics of fragrant but not bright, sweet but not greasy aftertaste, as white as jade comb, as thin as cicada wings and as sweet as honey.

4. Rice cakes: the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, commonly known as off-year. 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, which has a unique flavor and the meaning of a round garden.