As soon as everyone hears "Little New Year", they know that the New Year is not far away. People start to prepare for the "Busy New Year", buying New Year's goods, sweeping dust, and offering sacrifices to stoves. People celebrating the Little New Year are very busy and happy.

Xiaonian, which is the 23rd or 24th day of the twelfth lunar month every year, is a festival to worship the Kitchen God.

Xiaonian has different concepts and dates in various places. In most areas in the north, it falls on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, and in most of the south, it falls on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month.

The Chinese New Year is always inseparable from eating, and as a traditional Chinese custom, the special delicacies passed down are indispensable. So, what should we eat during the Small New Year?

Remember to eat these 7 traditional foods, most of which mean good luck and reunion, and you will have a prosperous new year.

Tang Gua: As the old saying goes, "Twenty-three, Tang Gua is sticky, and the Kitchen God will go to heaven."

Legend has it that the Stove King will go to heaven to report the behavior of every household for a year. He has the responsibility of communicating with superiors and subordinates, connecting the emotions of heaven and earth, and conveying information between fairyland and mortal world.

When it goes to heaven, people offer it sweets, hoping that it will eat sweets and let it go to heaven and say more good things to the world, so that its life will be happier in the coming year.

The other is that people want to stick tooth-sticky sugar melons to the Stove God's mouth to prevent him from speaking ill of human beings in heaven.

Compared with various candies on the market, Tanggua has a unique flavor and texture that is crispy, sweet and crispy, which is difficult for other candies to imitate. On the other hand, the main ingredient of Tanggua is maltose, which is a natural food raw material.

Simple processing.

Nowadays, few people make this kind of traditional snack at home, and they are more willing to go out and buy a few pieces to "think about it" according to the occasion.

Guandong Sugar Guandong Sugar is also called Stove King Sugar and Big Block Sugar.

During the year, it is only sold around the New Year.

It is a highly viscous candy product made from malt, millet or yellow rice. It is drawn into a long candy stick called "Guandong candy" and drawn into an oblate shape is called "Tanggua".

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Put it outside the house in winter. Because of the severe cold weather, the sugar melon solidifies and has some tiny bubbles inside, giving it a milky white color.

Guandong sugar is generally three inches long, three fingers wide, flat, and in the shape of ribbons.

The newly made large pieces of candy are crispy and sweet when you put them in your mouth. It is a New Year's delicacy that is very popular among men, women and children in Kanto.

Fire burning In Henan, people cook fire burning on Xiaonian day because people hope that the new year will be prosperous and everything will go well. Fire burning is almost synonymous with Xiaonian.

Every year on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, the business of sesame cake stalls in the city is very prosperous.

New Year Cake: In the south, many families steam and eat New Year cake to celebrate the festival. New Year cake is also called "Nian Nian Gao", which is homophonic with "Nian Nian Gao", which means that people's work and life are improving year by year.

At the same time, there is another saying about eating rice cakes on the New Year's Eve. This meaning is the same as eating sugar melons in the north. It means to stick the mouth of the Stove King and let him say good things to heaven and not bad things to the world.

There are also many ways to make rice cakes. You can eat them sweetly, dip them in sugar, put them in vegetables, or eat them in hot pot. They are all delicious.

Tangyuan. Many places will choose to eat some delicious glutinous rice balls when celebrating the New Year's Eve, and there are many types and styles. But why do we eat glutinous rice dumplings during the Chinese New Year?

This is because it makes your life more complete and you can be more reunited with your family.

Dumplings: It is customary to eat dumplings at New Year's Eve in the north, which means to say goodbye to the Stove Lord, and the meaning is "send off dumplings and face the wind".

When offering the offering, the dumplings should be placed neatly on the offering table.

As the saying goes, nothing is more delicious than dumplings. Northerners have a special liking for dumplings, and dumplings are a must during New Years and holidays.

Because dumplings are wrapped and symbolize reunion, eating dumplings when family or friends go out expresses the hope of being reunited with family and friends again as soon as possible.

Date Pastry On this day, people in the north will make jujube pastry, reunion cakes, longevity peaches and other pasta, which symbolizes the reunion of the whole family and a prosperous life every year.

This type of pasta is more troublesome to make. You need to rest it after rising, then knead it and rest it again, and then make it into various pasta shapes and rest it again. After the dough is rested, put it in the steamer. This steamed pasta

Also known as "noodle flower", it is very delicious but very labor-intensive.