What to eat on the third day of the twelfth lunar month?

1, eat jiaozi, buckwheat noodles and fried corn. On the festival of offering sacrifices to stoves, people pay attention to it, which means "seeing off the windward side of 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, "Twenty-three, don't eat fried, on New Year's Eve-pour it all at once." The 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, also called Lunar New Year's Eve, is a day of offering sacrifices to stoves, sweeping dust and eating candy from stoves in traditional culture in China. The folk song "Twenty-three, Melon Stick" refers to the god who worships the stove on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month every year. There is a saying that "officials, three people, four boatmen and five monks" or "officials, three people, four monks and five Taoists", that is, the government held a kitchen worship on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the common people held it on the 24th, and the government boats, temples and Taoist temples held it on the 25th.

2, eat sesame candy: It is said that off-year is the day when the kitchen god goes to heaven, and will report to the emperor the food and clothing consumption in the world in the past year and other things that the emperor wants to know. Eating sesame candy is to make the mouth of the kitchen god stick with sugar, and it is also impossible to 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 brings famine and hopes to have a safe and prosperous year. Sesame sugar is refined from glutinous rice, sesame seeds and white sugar, without any chemical pollution and additives. It is a pure natural green food. Sesame sugar is famous for its unique flavor of fragrant, sweet, thin and crisp. It has the characteristics of typical fragrance but not bright, sweet but not greasy and endless aftertaste. The jade comb is as white as jade, as thin as cicada wings and as sweet as honey. It is nutritious, contains protein, glucose and vitamins, and has the effects of warming lung, nourishing stomach, nourishing liver and tonifying kidney.

3, eat Guandong sugar: the old saying goes, "Twenty-three, cantaloupes are sticky, and the stove owner wants to go to heaven." Guandong sugar, also known as stove 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. The Chronicle of Yanjing written by the Qing Dynasty records that there are "Guandong Sugar" and "Sugar Cake" in the offerings of the Qing Dynasty. Guandong sugar is sold in rural areas, cities, streets and markets in Northeast China: "Big sugar, big sugar, crispy big sugar." 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.