There is an old saying among the people: "When the lunar new year arrives, you can eat three stoves." The 23rd of the twelfth lunar month is the lunar new year. The off-year days in the north and the south are different, but the same is to be busy for the New Year, to worship the kitchen gods, to clean up the house, to kill pigs and sheep, and to go to the market to buy new year's goods. It's March 9 in the off-year. It's cold but warm. Therefore, the food eaten this day is mostly related to the kitchen god. Below, I have carefully sorted out the food that I have eaten in five off-year customs. Let's take a look.

I. jiaozi

Northerners are used to eating jiaozi in the evening of the Lunar New Year. As the saying goes, "See jiaozi off to the windward" means to see the Kitchen God off with jiaozi. Jiaozi should also be put squarely on the altar before the stove. In addition, when you package jiaozi, you can't say "the package is finished", but you should say "the package is full", which means that the grain in the coming year will be Man Cang and everything will go well.

Second, the fire

Fire is a very common kind of pasta in the northern region. Eating fire is a standard in off-year years. The family who cooks fire shows that there is a good harvest of food at home. In addition, fire also symbolizes the beautiful meaning of prosperous days.

Huoshao, a famous traditional food, is mainly popular in northern China. Its producing areas are mainly Shanxi, Shandong, Beijing, Hebei, Henan, etc. The main ingredients are flour, fresh meat, pepper and chives, with golden color, crisp skin, soft and tough inside, salty and delicious.

Third, sugar cake

Sugar cake is a must-have food for northerners in the New Year, and it is also a must-eat food in the new year. One is to sacrifice and the other is to improve the food for children. The sugar cake is made of instant noodles, so it tastes glutinous, and then wrapped with white sugar. It is sweet and delicious, and it is sweet in the mouth, which means that life is sweet in the coming New Year!

Fourth, the sacrifice stove soup

The custom of offering sacrifices to stoves in the eastern plain of Henan Province is to drink the soup of offering sacrifices to stoves, which is a very simple "vegetarian soup" with tofu, which is generally simple and light, in order to let the kitchen god see that the home is simple and not extravagant, so that the kitchen god can be blessed!

Soup for offering sacrifices to stoves is one of the traditional customs in China. In the countryside of eastern Henan plain, the New Year begins with offering sacrifices to stoves. On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, commonly known as offering sacrifices to stoves, housewives clean the kitchen during the day and cook soup for their families at night. The soup for offering sacrifices to the stove in eastern Henan is very simple. Half a Chinese cabbage and a handful of vermicelli are slipped in the oil pan, boiled with water, poured with batter, and boiled while stirring until it tastes slightly mushy.

Five, hemp sugar

Kitchen candy, also known as "sesame candy", is made of maltose and covered with a layer of white sesame seeds. It tastes fragrant and sweet and is deeply loved by children and adults! It tastes very sticky, in order to stick to the mouth of the kitchen god, not to say bad things, but also to pin everyone's yearning for a better life!

Now that people's lives are good, you don't have to wait until the holidays to eat any delicious food, but in certain festivals, people will eat the same food. If you still know which foods are eaten in the off-year, please leave a message in the comments below.