Zaosi Festival, folk say eat dumplings, meaning "send off dumplings to meet the wind face". Mountainous areas eat cake and buckwheat. Jin Dongnan region, the popular custom of eating fried corn, folk proverb has "twenty-three, do not eat fried, the first day of the New Year a pot down," the saying. People like to fry corn with maltose bonded together, frozen into large blocks, eat crispy and sweet. In the old days, rich or poor, as long as the top door into the family life, we must be in the pot on the wall, dedicated to the image of the Zaowang master, in the image of the two sides of the sticker couplets: "the sky say good things, the lower world to keep the peace according to." Every family worships Zaowangsi as a god, and it dominates the rise and fall of a family, and because he often lives in the stove room during the four seasons and watches the activities of the family, he naturally becomes the "master of the house".

2, eat stove sugar

Stove sugar is a kind of sticky mouth and sticky malt sugar, it is drawn as a long sugar stick called "Guandong sugar", pulled into a flat round type is called "sugar melon". Put it outside the house in winter, because of the cold weather, sugar melon solidified solid and some tiny bubbles inside, eat it crispy sweet and crispy, a unique flavor. The real Guandong sugar is very hard, can not be broken, when eating must be split with a kitchen knife, the material is very heavy and fine. Slightly sour taste, the middle of the absolutely no honeycomb, each piece weighs one or two, two or four, the price is also more expensive.

3, Guandong sugar

Guandong sugar, also known as Zaowang sugar, big sugar. During the year, it is only sold before and after the New Year. Guandong sugar is a sugar product made of malt and millet, which is used for sacrificing to the God of Zao. The Qing Dynasty recorded in Yanjing Yushiji (Records of the Years and Years of the Qing Dynasty) that in the Qing Dynasty, "Guandong sugar" and "sugar cakes" were offered as offerings to the God of Zaos. In the rural areas and cities of Northeast China, there are vendors in the streets, alleys and markets selling "big pieces of sugar, big pieces of sugar, big pieces of sugar that are crispy and fragrant." Cream-colored cubes of sugar, placed on a square plate, usually three inches long, one inch wide, flat, in the form of silk strips. The newly made big lump sugar, when put in the mouth and bitten, is crispy and fragrant, sticky and has a special flavor, which is a kind of sugar that is very popular among men, women and children in Guandong. It has come down from the sacrificial table of Lord Zao and is widely enjoyed by the people.

4, eat sugar melon

Sugar melon with sesame and no sesame two kinds of sugar made melon shape or northern melon shape, the center is empty, less than five points thick skin, although the size of the different, but the deal is still calculated by the weight, the big sugar melon weighing one or two pounds, but used as a front, buy very few people. The reason for the sacrificial stove for stove sugar, is to stick to the mouth of the stove master. Legend has it that Master Zao is the god sent by the Jade Emperor to the earth to supervise good and evil, and that it has the duty of communicating with people from above and below, contacting the feelings between heaven and earth, and transmitting information between the fairyland and the mortal world. When it went to heaven, people offered it Zao sugar, hoping that it would eat the sweet food and put in more good words in front of the Jade Emperor. It is also said that the sacrificial stove with stove sugar, not sticky stove master's mouth, but sticky mouth greedy good, gossiping stove grandmother's mouth.