1. Eating dumplings

Folks pay attention to eating dumplings, which means "sending off dumplings and facing the wind". People in mountainous areas eat more cakes and buckwheat noodles.

2. Fire

Fire is also a very unique seasonal food. Every year on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, the business of sesame cake stalls in the city is very prosperous. People crowded together, vying for money to burn in the stove. In rural areas, most people do it by themselves, baking dough and making kang, and the whole family is lively and lively, which feels like celebrating the Spring Festival.

3. Kitchen sweets

In Henan, kitchen sweets are the most typical food for worshiping stoves. The reason why people offer sweets to the kitchen god is to stick them in the mouth of the kitchen god. Legend has it that Zaoye is the god sent by the Jade Emperor to the human world to supervise good and evil. He has the responsibility of communicating with superiors and subordinates, contacting the emotions of heaven and earth, and conveying information between the fairyland and the mortal world.

When it ascended to heaven, people offered it sweets, hoping that it would have good words in front of the Jade Emperor after eating sweets. Some people also say that the stove candy used to worship the stove does not stick to the mouth of the stove god, but sticks to the mouth of the kitchen god’s grandmother who is greedy for good things and loves to gossip

4. Eat fried corn

In the southeastern part of Shanxi Province, the custom of eating fried corn is popular. There is a folk proverb that goes, "On the 23rd, if you don't eat fried corn, you will eat it in one pot at the beginning of the new year."