What else to eat on the Festival of Sacrifice to the Kitchen?

Kitchen Festival is a traditional festival in China, which is also called off-year among the people. Most of them are on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month. For today's young people, perhaps this name and related traditional customs are a little strange. Then today is to see what to eat and do on the New Year's Day.

On the festival of offering sacrifices to stoves, people pay attention to eating jiaozi. People like to bond fried corn with maltose and freeze it into pieces, which tastes crisp and sweet. In addition to eating stove candy, fire is also a very distinctive seasonal food on the day of sacrifice. On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the business of biscuit stalls in the city is booming. Besides honeydew melons, there are offerings from jiaozi, which means "get up and leave jiaozi to eat noodles", and some even offer noodles.

What else do you want to eat for the holidays?

1, jiaozi used to eat jiaozi at night, which means to send away the kitchen god, which means to "send away the windward side of jiaozi". When offering sacrifices, jiaozi should be placed on the platform. In addition, there is a folk saying "delicious but not as good as jiaozi". During the Spring Festival, jiaozi has become an indispensable food.

2. Sticky Cake is a folk song of "Twenty-three Sticky Cake Stickers" in Luxi, Shandong Province. Every year, on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, it is the day for every household to steam and eat sticky cakes, which means to stick the mouth of the kitchen god and let him say the good things in the sky, not the bad things on earth. Sticky cakes are made of yellow rice and red dates, which are sweet and rich, and the entrance is soft, meaning "high every year". In addition, Hainan people use coconuts as ingredients to make coconut cakes for eating and praying, which means "high every year".

3. Sesame candy There is a saying in northwestern Shanxi that "23 eat sesame candy, but you can't eat sesame candy and bite your fingers". It is said that off-year is the day when the kitchen god goes to heaven. He will report to the Heaven Emperor the food and clothing consumption of the world in the past year and other things that the Heaven Emperor wants to know. That's the chef's report day? Eating sesame candy is to make the mouth of the kitchen god stick with sugar, and you can't report the delicious and luxurious scenes on earth to the sky, so as not to punish those who love to eat and drink-the new year will bring famine, and I hope to have a safe and rich year.

4, the New Year's Day, in fact, what everyone wants is round and round. So, what festival is it to sacrifice the stove? People in Wuxuan, Guiping and other places in Guangxi have the custom of making rice cakes. The rice cake is made of glutinous rice flour as the main material, peanuts, sesame seeds and sugar as the ingredients, put into a mold to make it round, and then steamed at high temperature, with a unique flavor and the meaning of "round and round".

5. Killing pigs Gongcheng Yao Autonomous County has the custom of killing pigs in the New Year, such as Landong in Lotus, Xinhe in Xiling and Shuian Village in Guanyin. So, what to eat on the Festival of Sacrifice to the Kitchen? Of course, choose the best meat, or stir-fry or stew it, cook it carefully, then fill a glass of wine and invite friends and relatives to eat the first fresh meat after the pig is slaughtered-soup.

6. Besides eating stove candy, burning is also a distinctive seasonal food. On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the business of biscuit stalls in the city is booming.

7. Nanning people have the custom of eating zongzi in the coming year. Zongzi is a symbol of good luck in the New Year. As the saying goes, "Nianzongzi is the year of high school (Zongzi)". The New Year's Zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is different from Liang Zongzi. It has stuffing, big and small, long and short, round and flat. After peeling off the leaves, the skin is glutinous rice, and the stuffing is mung bean and pork. Some people use their favorite food as stuffing.

8. What do you eat at the Popcorn Candy Festival? Habits vary from place to place. The folks in Jing' an county are known as "small years and small years, and the rice is sweet." On the "off-year" day, people make popcorn candy with maltose and popcorn, which means that the new year will be rich and sweet.

9. Pasta In Shandong Peninsula, most people have been busy making noodles such as jujube cakes (also called big steamed buns), reunion cakes and longevity peaches since the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, indicating that the whole family is reunited and the days are more than enough. It is more troublesome to do. Wake up after kneading dough, knead dough and then wake up, then make various pasta shapes and then wake up, and then put them in a steamer. Steamed pasta is also called "noodle flower", which is very delicious, but it takes a lot of time.

10, Kwantung Sugar Kwantung Sugar is also called Chef King Sugar and Big Sugar. After one year, it will only be sold around the next year. Guandong sugar is a sugar product made of malt and millet, which is used to worship the kitchen god. A large piece of milky white sugar, placed on a square plate, is usually three inches long and one inch wide, flat and silky. A large piece of newly-made candy tastes crisp, fragrant and sticky and has a special taste. It is a kind of candy that is very popular among men, women and children in Kanto. It has been handed down from the kitchen god's sacrificial table and is widely loved by the people.

1 1. fried corn in southeastern Shanxi, there is a custom of eating fried corn. There is a saying in the folk proverb, "Twenty-three, don't eat fried, pour a pot for the New Year." People like to bond fried corn with maltose and freeze it into pieces, which tastes crisp and sweet.

12. Melon furnace sugar is a kind of maltose, which is very sticky. The candy that is pulled into a long strip is called "Guandong Sugar", and the candy that is pulled into a flat circle is called "honeydew melon". When it is put outside in winter, because of the cold weather, the honeydew melon is solidified firmly, and there are some tiny bubbles in it, which tastes crisp and sweet and has a special flavor. Sugar, sesame sugar and non-sesame sugar. Sugar is made into melon shape or north melon shape. The center is empty and the skin thickness is less than five points. Although the size is different, the transaction is still calculated by weight. The big honeydew melon weighs one or two Jin, but few people buy it as a cover.

What else should we do on the Festival of Sacrifice to the Kitchen?

Off-year is also a day of folk sacrifice. According to folklore, every year on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, Kitchen God will tell the Jade Emperor about the good and evil of this family and let the Jade Emperor reward and punish them. Therefore, when sending stoves, people put candy, water, beans and grass on the console table in front of the kitchen god statue; Among them, the last three are the mounts of the kitchen god ascending to heaven. When offering sacrifices to the stove, you should melt the Guandong sugar with fire and put it on the mouth of the kitchen god. In this way, he can't speak ill of the jade emperor In addition, on New Year's Eve, the Kitchen God will bring the gods to the world for the New Year, and there will be a ceremony to pick up the kitchen and pick up the gods on that day. Every family burns sedan chairs and horses, sprinkles three glasses of wine, and sends away the kitchen god, so it's their turn to worship their ancestors.

Dust removal 1. After twenty-three, there are only six or seven days left before the Spring Festival. Sweeping dust is even more enthusiastic. To thoroughly clean the room, commonly known as sweeping the dust, sweeping the dust is to go to the old and welcome the new, and remove the ominous. Every household should be carefully and thoroughly cleaned to make the windows bright and clean. Paint walls, scrub glass, put up windows, put up New Year pictures and so on. In the twelfth lunar month, every family is ready to welcome the New Year. In Beijing, December 24th of the lunar calendar is usually designated as House Sweeping Day. Dust removal is mainly to clean the house thoroughly. Housewives usually cover the bed furniture in the room first, wrap their heads with headscarves, and then sweep the walls up and down with a broom. Clean the house, scrub the tables and chairs, and clean the floor. After cleaning the house, the shops and residents' homes are completely new. The newly posted Spring Festival couplets are bright and dazzling, showing the prosperity of the world. Lifelike door gods, looking up at happy banners, exquisite window grilles, colorful New Year pictures, colorful lanterns and rich sacrifices on shrines all present a festive scene.

Among all the preparations for window cutting, window cutting is the most popular folk activity. There are all kinds of animal and plant stories here, such as plum blossoms of magpies, peach willows of swallows, peony of peacocks, rolling hydrangeas of lions, playing pearls of three sheep (Yang), playing pearls of two dragons, Toona sinensis of deer cranes (Liuhe Tongchun), longevity of five bats (Fu), moon-gazing of rhinoceros, Nianyu of Lotus (Lian) (the rest) and swimming of Yuanyang.

Take a bath. Adults and children should take a bath and have their hair cut. There is a folk saying that people who have money but no money shave their heads for the New Year.

After 23 years of marriage, people think that God has gone to heaven and everything has been forgiven. You don't have to choose a date to marry a daughter-in-law and prostitution. This is called rushing to get married. Until the end of the year, there will be many wedding ceremonies. Folk songs are busy marrying hometown, and Yichun posts tease spring. Sisters whispering in front of the lamp, this year is the bridal chamber.