What to eat in off-year? On off-year, the northern region is used to eating jiaozi at night, which means to see the Kitchen God off, meaning to "see off the windward side of jiaozi". I also want to eat Kitchen King candy, which is a sugar product made of malt and millet. In Shandong, people want to eat steamed sticky cakes, which means to stick the mouth of the kitchen king and let him say good things in heaven instead of bad things in the world. In the southeastern part of Shanxi, there is a custom of eating fried corn. There is a saying in the folk proverb that "23, don't eat fried, one pot will be poured on New Year's Day". In Jing 'an County, people want to eat popcorn candy, which means that the new year will be rich and sweet. In Shandong Peninsula, most people began to make jujube cakes, reunion cakes, birthday peaches and other noodles from the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, indicating that the whole family is happy and the days are more than a year.
What are the customs of China's New Year's Eve to send jujube steamed buns to raise children? "king of people" is a common custom in Anhui, but in northern Anhui, sweet potatoes boiled with red taro are used to "king of people".
King of people, ancestor worship. The off-year time in southern Anhui is also different. Part of Huizhou is the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, but it is the 24th of the twelfth lunar month in Jingde Town, and there are other places where it is the 25th of the twelfth lunar month. The customs of king of people and sweeping dust are similar to those in other places.
"coax" the kitchen god. Everyone knows that the "kitchen god" will go to heaven on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, but in order to make the kitchen god speak well and not complain, these three customs have been circulating.
Sweep the dust The cobwebs and garbage at home are kept by the kitchen god, which is to destroy the kitchen god's "account book".