You can eat braised crucian carp, corn yam sparerib soup, stewed pork ribs with white radish, sweet and sour pork ribs, fried pork with pepper and so on. Eating braised crucian carp in Chinese New Year is another year's significance. Whether it is corn yam ribs soup or white radish stewed ribs soup, it is very important to choose good ribs. When choosing spareribs, you should choose spareribs that are red in white and shiny in appearance, and the spareribs that smell slightly meaty are relatively fresh.

In southeastern Shanxi, there is a custom of eating fried corn. People like to stick the fried corn with maltose and freeze it into pieces, which tastes crisp and sweet. Every year, on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, it is the day for every household to steam and eat sticky cakes, which means to stick the mouth of the kitchen god and let him say the good things in the sky, not the bad things on earth. 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.

Off-year custom

Sacrificing a stove is one of the main customs during the off-year period. In ancient times, people believed that every household worshipped the Kitchen God, who was responsible for supervising the actions of a family for one year and reporting the good deeds or evil deeds of a family to the Jade Emperor in the sky during the off-year period, so as to decide rewards and punishments. Therefore, people should worship the stove in the early years, symbolically stick honeydew melons on the mouth of the kitchen god, and expect him to talk well in heaven.

Sweeping dust, southerners call it dust removal, and northerners call it cleaning houses. In fact, it is to do a lot of household hygiene. On this day, every household gets up at dawn, cleans houses and windows, washes clothes and washes pots and pans. People sweep away the old things and the unhappiness they encountered in the year and prepare for a clean and beautiful year.