In the north, the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month is the Lunar New Year. After the 23rd, there are only seven days left before the Spring Festival, and Spring Festival travel rush's preparations are even more enthusiastic. To thoroughly clean the room, commonly known as sweeping the house, cleaning the dust under boxes, cabinets and kang mats, painting walls, scrubbing glass, decaling windows, pasting New Year pictures and so on.

2. The custom of offering sacrifices to the stove to eat off-year in the north. Melon, caramel, sesame candy, etc. Originally, it was for the kitchen god to touch it, but later it gradually evolved into a snack that children must eat in their early years.

In the next year, you will eat "round fire", and round means good. In the off-year customs in the north, besides eating stove candy, fire is also a very distinctive seasonal food.

In addition, in many places in the north of China, there is a folk song "Twenty-three, paste cakes". In the twelfth lunar month, every household steamed sticky cakes, which means sticking the mouth of the kitchen god and letting him only say good things in the sky. Sticky cake is made of yellow rice, red dates and other raw materials. It is sweet and rich, and its entrance is soft. At the same time, it means auspicious and festive every year.

3. The off-year custom of the northern stick grill. Cutting window grilles is the most popular folk activity. The reason why window grilles spread is because of their exquisite patterns, which is a beautiful yearning for future life. There are also various animal and plant allusions, such as magpies climbing plum blossoms, peacocks beating peonies, lions rolling hydrangeas, three sheep (Yang) opening Thailand, two dragons playing with pearls, Yuanyang playing with water and so on. Hanging window grilles means that the new year is getting better and better. Cut out the window grilles and stick them in a clean room, which naturally adds a lot of joy to the family.

4. Take a bath and get a haircut

If you have money, you can shave your head for the New Year. Northerners always get a haircut and take a bath around the New Year to prepare for the New Year.