What to eat on New Year's Day?

Jiaozi, sticky cake, sesame sugar, kwantung sugar and honeydew melon have all been eaten for 23 years.

1, Jiaozi:

The north usually eats jiaozi on the 23rd night of the twelfth lunar month, because the Kitchen God will be sent to heaven to report his work on this day. People cooked jiaozi and put it squarely on the altar, meaning "send jiaozi to the windward side".

2, sticky cake:

In some areas of Shandong, steamed sticky cakes are eaten every year on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. Sticky cake is a kind of sweet cake, which is made of yellow rice and red dates. It is intended to stick the mouth of the kitchen god and let him only say good things when reporting to the jade emperor.

3. Sesame sugar:

In northwestern Shanxi, sesame candy is eaten on New Year's Eve. The sesame candy in Datong, Shanxi Province is boiled with high-quality millet, then mixed with ground millet flour, fermented and solidified by a special process, and made into various shapes of candy, including jade bone sesame candy, crisp sesame candy, stuffed sesame candy, melon egg candy, plate candy and so on.

No matter what kind of sesame candy it is, it must stick to the mouth of the kitchen god so as not to report the delicious and luxurious things on earth to the sky.

4. Kwantung sugar:

Guandong candy, also known as Kitchen God candy, can only be eaten around off-year in a year. Kwantung sugar is a kind of sugar product with special flavor made from malt and millet. Guandong sugar is fragrant, crisp and sticky, and is mainly used for offering sacrifices to stoves. When offering sacrifices to the kitchen stove, you should use torches to melt the candy, and put it on the mouth of the kitchen god, so that he can't speak ill of the Jade Emperor.

5, sugar melon:

Twenty-three, cantaloupe stick, a folk song that many people should have heard. Melon is similar to kwantung sugar, but kwantung sugar is long and flat, which is honeydew melon. It tastes crisp, sweet and sticky.