What to eat in Zhengzhou, Henan Province,

Eat jiaozi to celebrate the festival of offering sacrifices to stoves. People pay attention to "seeing the windward side of jiaozi" when eating jiaozi. Eat more cakes and buckwheat noodles in mountainous areas. In the southeast of Shanxi, the custom of eating fried corn is popular. A folk proverb says, "If you don't eat fried corn, you'll get a pot on New Year's Day."

Specific operation mode: Because every family usually puts a portrait of the kitchen god near the stove, and sometimes it is accompanied by a portrait of the kitchen god's grandmother. After a year of smoky fire, the portrait is old and black.

To get rid of the old image, stick a grass horse to Kitchen God with straw and bribe him, so that he can "speak well in heaven and return to the palace for good luck", so that he can only speak well with a sticky melon or cake and then burn it with the grass horse.

This process is called magnetic stove. Buy a new portrait after the New Year, and ask Kitchen God to reply. In these intervening days, without the supervision of the kitchen god, most people overeat and gamble, indulging in some small mistakes that they usually think should not be made.