According to the traditional custom in China, the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month is a "off-year". What do people usually eat?

As the saying goes, "Twenty-three, honeydew melon sticks". When I was young, people would buy candied melons, candied Kwangtung, sesame candy and other sacrifices to pray that the kitchen god would be sweeter and say good things from heaven.

2. Nianzong

Festival customs of Zhuang, Han and Yi people. Popular in western Guangxi. It is hard work to pack jiaozi for the New Year. Usually, we don't eat zongzi on New Year's Eve, but worship our ancestors and gods.

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Other customs:

1, scanning year

Sweeping the year is to sweep the dust, in fact, it is to engage in household environmental sanitation. Southerners take the 24th of the twelfth lunar month as a small year, which is called "blowing dust". Northerners take the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month as a small year, which is called "sweeping houses".

Step 2 sacrifice the stove

Offering sacrifices to the stove refers to sending sacrifices to the kitchen god, so off-year is also called offering sacrifices to the stove festival. According to the Records of Local Customs written by Zhou Chu, a celebrity in the Jin Dynasty, "Sacrificing the kitchen god on the 24th night of the twelfth lunar month means going to heaven the next day, and being one year old, so one day is sacrificed first.