Over the small year generally have to eat dumplings, rice dumplings, pasta, sticky cake, and so on.

Northern New Year's Eve is customary to eat dumplings, which are meant to be a send-off for the king of the stove, meaning "send off dumplings to meet the wind face". When the offerings are made, the dumplings are placed squarely on the offering table. In addition, there is a folk saying that "dumplings are as delicious as they are delicious," and they become an indispensable delicacy during the Chinese New Year festivities.

Nanning people have a small year to eat "rice dumplings" custom, rice dumplings is a symbol of good luck in the New Year, as the saying goes, "rice dumplings, rice dumplings, high school (rice dumplings)". The year dumplings and the Dragon Boat Festival cold dumplings are not the same, it has a filling, large and small, long and short, round and flat. After peeling off the leaves, the skin is glutinous rice and the filling is mung bean and pork, or some people put their favorite food as filling.

People in the Shandong Peninsula and most of the people since the lunar calendar after the twenty-third lunar month, the family busy doing big jujube meat and potatoes (also known as big steamed buns), reunion cake, peach and other flowers, said the family reunion, the days of the year. In Shandong Lushi area folk "twenty-three, sticky cake sticky" ballad, the twenty-third of Lunar New Year every year, is the family steamed sticky cake eat sticky cake days, meant to stick to the mouth of the king of the stove, so that it is good to say good things on the sky, do not say bad things on earth.

Small Year Festival

Small Year, a traditional Chinese festival, also known as "the festival of the year", "Zao Shen Festival", "festival of the stove China's vast territory, there are great differences in customs, due to different customs, known as the "small year" of the day is not the same. In most parts of the south is the 24th day of the Lunar New Year, in the north is the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year, and in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, the "24th day of the Lunar New Year" and "the night before New Year's Eve" are called the New Year.

Small year is usually regarded as the beginning of the busy year, means that people start to prepare for the New Year's goods, dust sweeping, sacrificial stoves, etc., ready to clean a good year, expresses a kind of resignation of the old and welcome the new, welcome auspicious blessings of the good will of the people. Stove festival in our country has thousands of years of folk history, is the Chinese people on the "food and clothing have more than" the dream of the pursuit of reflection.