The ancient people in China thought that, for example, there was a lamp god, a land god and a jade emperor in the sky, and all kinds of gods existed. The ancients didn't want more, but they were very happy to eat and wear warm clothes, so eating is the first thing. So there is a kitchen god on this kitchen where cooking is done. Then on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, it is the day when the kitchen god reports his work to the Jade Emperor every year, and he will report people's good things and bad things to the Jade Emperor.
The content of the report is that I was in this family this year, and I heard whether this family is good or bad, how many good things and bad things this family has done.
Then, as human beings, in order to make him not tell the bad things to the Jade Emperor, people will eat sesame candy. Also put some sugar on the mouth of the kitchen god, because the kitchen god can help people put in a good word in front of the jade emperor and let him "say good things in heaven and distribute good luck in the earth." This is the reason for eating sesame candy in the next year.
After talking about why we should eat sesame candy in off-year, I'm talking about there are actually many other things to eat in off-year besides sesame candy on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month.
1. jiaozi
Every year, many northern friends are used to eating jiaozi at night, and eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve is to see the Kitchen God off, meaning "seeing off the windward side of jiaozi". As the most representative holiday food, jiaozi is also called "Jiao Er" and "Jiao Zi", which means the alternation of old and new. The whole family sat together, mixing dough, stuffing, kneading dough and rolling dumpling wrappers, eating hot jiaozi, enjoying themselves and welcoming the New Year.
2. Tangyuan
Many southern families will eat some delicious dumplings when they spend the New Year's Eve, which symbolizes the meaning of "sweet and sweet" and "round and round". Nowadays, there are many kinds of dumplings, including sweet and sweet fillings, sweet dumplings with sesame stuffing, bean paste stuffing, and fruits such as yellow peaches, strawberries and oranges, and salty dumplings with fresh meat, shepherd's purse meat, corn and radish. Southerners love dumplings as much as northerners love jiaozi.
Step 3 burn
Burning, in fact, is similar to sesame cakes or Chinese buns, and it is also a very distinctive seasonal food. In Henan, there is a fire to eat on the off-year day. Besides the fire made of meat, there are also brown sugar baked cakes and sesame paste baked cakes, especially brown sugar baked with brown sugar, which is a homonym for the people, indicating that life in the coming year is booming.
Summary: People will eat sesame candy in their younger years. It also indicates that sesame blossoms are on the rise. It is people's hope that every year will be better, and it is also a beautiful expectation and yearning.