What are the customs and taboos for eating on the 21st day of the first month?

Eat jiaozi on the 23rd of the first month.

Eating jiaozi on 23rd means "sending jiaozi to the windward side". Eating cakes and buckwheat noodles in mountainous areas is popular in southeastern Shanxi. There is a saying in the folk proverb, "Twenty-three, don't eat fried, it's the first day of the lunar new year-a pot falls."

The 23rd of the twelfth lunar month is the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, which is also called off-year. Off-year is the day when people worship the kitchen. It is said that on this day, Kitchen God will report the good and evil of this family to the Jade Emperor, and let him reward and punish it. When offering sacrifices to the kitchen stove, you should melt the Guandong sugar with fire and put it on the mouth of the kitchen god, so that he can't speak ill of the Jade Emperor. "Men don't Yue Bai, women don't sacrifice to the kitchen" custom, so sacrifice to the kitchen is limited to men.

Social customs and habits

Because of customs and traditions, the northern lunar calendar is 23 months, the southern lunar calendar is 24 months, and some lunar calendars are 25 months. The 23rd day of the first month is the day of "making up". In the old society, people paid attention to eating coarse grains, mainly coarse grains, to fill granaries, and prayed for a bumper harvest of grains, food in Man Cang and a prosperous life for every household in the new year.

The 23rd day of the first lunar month has passed, and the customs have no requirements for food, so they can decide what to eat according to their own preferences. Most people in the south are mainly rice. Coarse grains can be added to rice, which can be used with various vegetables and meat dishes. People in the north are mainly pasta, and all kinds of noodles, noodles, steamed buns, steamed buns and other foods can be eaten.