What traditional food to eat on the small year in the north

It is customary to eat dumplings on the night of the Lunar New Year in the north to send off the king of the kitchen, meaning "sending off dumplings to meet the wind". When the offerings are made, the dumplings are placed squarely on the offering table. In addition, there is a folk saying that "dumplings are as delicious as they are delicious". During the New Year festivities, dumplings become an indispensable delicacy of the season.

The New Year's Eve dinner in many northern provinces and cities has gradually been dominated by dumplings, but there is one exception, and that is Henan. In Henan, families have to make their own fire to eat, fire and the New Year's Eve is almost equal. In Shandong Lushi area folk "twenty-three, sticky cake sticky" ballad. Every year on the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year, every family steams the sticky cake and eats the sticky cake, which is meant to stick to the mouth of the king of the stove, so that it will say good things in the sky and not say bad things on earth. Sticky cake with yellow rice, red dates and other raw materials, sweet and strong, soft in the mouth, take the "year high" meaning of celebration. Northwest Jin has "twenty-three eat sesame, eat not eat sesame gnawing fingers" proverb. It is said that the New Year is the day when the God of the Zaos goes up to heaven, and he goes up to heaven to report to the God of Heaven about the food and clothing on earth in the past year and other things that the God of Heaven wants to know. It is also the day when the God of Vesta reports on his duties. Eat hemp sugar is to make this stove god's mouth is stuck by the sugar to open, can not put the earth's delicious and luxurious scene reported to the sky, so as not to have to love to eat and drink people were punished, to the new year brought famine, looking forward to a safe and fruitful year to come. Jin Dongnan region, the popular custom of eating fried corn, folk proverb has "twenty-three, do not eat fried, the beginning of the year - a pot down" said. People like to fry corn with maltose bonding up, frozen into a large block, eat crispy and sweet.