On New Year's Eve in southern Fujian, a family is called "Send the Kitchen Master" to eat the New Year's Eve dinner around the stove, remove the dining table, clean the kitchen again, and then put sacrifices such as wine, meat, fish, chicken and candied dates on the kitchen surface. After the hostess makes the worship, she will set off firecrackers in front of the stove to pay tribute to the Kitchen Master.

On the night of Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, candied fruit was put on the stove to welcome the kitchen god to the next day. And this inch of jujube, which means sweetness, is a regular snack during the holidays. It is made of vegetable oil, glutinous rice, white sugar and maltose. The raw materials are pure, crisp and sweet, and the entrance is refreshing.

Flower candy is also one of the necessary New Year snacks for old Xiamen people. It looks like pink and white candy, but it is actually fried peanuts. It tastes sweet and fragrant, and the color is bright, which is very popular among children.

Fried buttons (fried crispy corners), inch dates and flower candy are also called old Xiamen people must buy the old three kinds during the Spring Festival, and many people in southern Fujian often eat fried buttons every day. Fried buttons are stuffed with sesame seeds and peanuts, which not only satisfy their cravings with tea, but also look like a "golden ingot", and they are placed at home during the Spring Festival, meaning good luck and good luck.

In addition to the old three items mentioned above, Xiamen people must eat "Niannian Gao" rice cakes, which can be used for making tea and offering sacrifices to their ancestors.

The name "garlic branch" is only understood by Minnan people. To put it bluntly, it is a kind of twist wrapped in sugar coating and garlic, which has two flavors: sweet, salty and sweet. The onion leaves are salty and sweet, and the ones without onion leaves are sweet. Although the figure looks like the northern twist, it is more delicate than the northern twist, and the taste is more crisp and sweet than the northern twist. It is garlic sticks, a traditional snack in southern Fujian.

Ciba is a common food in many places during Chinese New Year holidays, which is made of steamed and mashed glutinous rice. As a dessert, sugar and cooked soybean powder, peanut powder, sesame powder, etc. are often rolled, and some are also wrapped with bean paste or sesame stuffing. Ciba wrapped with sesame seeds and rolled with sesame seeds is called sesame cake.

In the early years, the practice of making rice cakes was repeated with glutinous rice in a large stone mortar, which was flexible in texture. Later, the glutinous rice pulp was ground with a stone mill or an electric mill, dried and steamed, and then kneaded repeatedly, making the rice cake delicate and flexible.

The hands of those who pack sesame seeds should be kept clean. When selling, the money should be collected with chopsticks clips or by assistants to ensure food hygiene. Masi has always been a traditional tea match for Xiamen people to drink kung fu tea, and it is also a common purchase of compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia in Xiamen.