In December of the lunar calendar, we eat jiaozi, roasted corn, rice cakes and sugar cane.

The food eaten in the north and south of the twelfth lunar month is different, but they are all prepared to welcome the arrival of the New Year. Jiaozi, the traditional food of the northern twelfth lunar month, is the custom of eating jiaozi and sending it to the Kitchen God on New Year's Eve in the north. There is a folk saying that jiaozi is delicious, but it is an essential food in the twelfth lunar month. Fire, fire This is a special seasonal food, which is very popular with people. Northerners worship stoves on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, and they usually prepare to make a fire. Kitchen candy, kitchen candy is a sweet, crisp and sticky maltose.

The traditional food of the southern twelfth lunar month is rice cake, which is also called rice cake in many southern regions. After eating rice cakes, people's professional life is getting better every year. Water chestnut, Fuzhou people will use water chestnut to worship the stove, and take the homonym of Fuzhou dialect to express good luck every year. The rice cake is made of glutinous rice flour, peanuts, sesame seeds and sugar, which means reunion. It is a traditional folk food of Wuxuan and Guiping. People often say that it is the ladder for the kitchen god to ascend to heaven, and it is an essential food for offering sacrifices to the kitchen stove, symbolizing endless sweetness.

Introduction to December of the lunar calendar:

December in lunar calendar is another name for the end of December. As early as the Book of Changes and Zhou Li, there were records of "Roufu" and "Vera". The original meaning of "wax" is "dried meat", and there are many names at the end of December, among which the most familiar one is "twelfth month". This month's weather is most suitable for air-drying to make bacon, so it is called "twelfth lunar month". Because the end of1February is in the transition period of the old and the new, it is a month with more sacrifices.

As early as the pre-Qin period, it was convenient for some places in China to hold "year-end festivals" in the month when the old and the new were handed over. Due to the nicknames of "December" and "La Dong" at the end of the year, the sacrifices held this month are called "La Worship". In ancient times, the moon had many nicknames, each with a different meaning. In addition to the nickname "twelfth month", there are other nicknames: twelfth month, late winter, twelfth month, Jiaping, season and severe winter. Now the twelfth lunar month usually refers to the December of the lunar calendar.