What to eat in the next year?

Jiaozi, sticky cake, sesame sugar, kwantung sugar, honeydew melon, new year cake, burnt new year cake, new year cake, popcorn candy and fried corn are the customary foods for off-year children.

Southerners generally eat rice cakes, rice cakes, glutinous rice balls and stove candy;

Northerners generally eat jiaozi, pasta and honeydew melon.

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The origin of off-year:

December 23rd and 24th of the lunar calendar are traditional days for offering sacrifices to stoves in China, also known as "off-year". According to legend, Kitchen God was originally a civilian, Zhang Sheng. After marriage, he spent all his time drinking, losing everything and begging in the streets. One day, he begged at his ex-wife Guo Dingxiang's house, ashamed and burned to death under the stove.

When the Jade Emperor knew about it, he thought that Zhang Sheng would change his mind, and it wouldn't be bad in the end. Because he died at the bottom of the pot, he was named the kitchen god. Every year, he went to heaven on the 23rd and 24th of the twelfth lunar month and returned to the bottom of the stove on the New Year's Eve. The people think that the kitchen god must be respected because he wants to repay the kindness to heaven. Therefore, people celebrate the "off-year" on the 23rd and 24th of the twelfth lunar month, praying for peace and wealth in the coming year.

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