What day is the 2019 Lunar New Year? What to Eat on Lunar New Year

It's Monday, January 28, 2019 (the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year). The questioner's question is mixing public 2019 with the lunar New Year (usually the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year) and is therefore not rigorous.

Small year does not exclusively refer to one festival, and the festivals known as small year vary due to local customs. The main folk activities of the Han Chinese during the New Year include putting up spring couplets, sweeping dust, and offering sacrifices to the stove. In most parts of northern China, the Zaos Festival on the 23rd or 24th day of the Lunar New Year is called Xiao Nian (小年). There are also many areas called the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month of the new year, the winter solstice is also called in some places as a small year.

China's vast territory, customs vary from region to region, so the traditional food for the New Year is also different, the following are a few common foods.

1, dumplings on New Year's Day is generally also the time to worship Zaojun, and people in the northern regions of New Year's Day to Zaojun offerings, we must serve a bowl of dumplings, because "send off dumplings to meet the wind," to Zaojun to send off, so you have to prepare dumplings.

2, Zao sugar Zao sugar is a traditional Han snacks, generally divided into Guandong sugar and sugar melon, the raw material is maltose, the maltose elongated into a long stick, it is called Guandong sugar, and made into a flat round shape is called sugar melon, and the surface of the sugar melon can be sprinkled with sesame seeds, in the ballad "after Lahai is the year," there is a sentence: "twenty-three, the sugar melon sticky! The phrase "On the twenty-third day of the Lunar New Year, sugar melons are sticky" refers to the eating of sugar melons on the Lunar New Year's Day.

3, rice crackers in some areas of Guangxi, in the small year this day, folk have to do the custom of rice crackers, rice crackers raw materials are glutinous rice flour, add some sesame seeds, peanuts, sugar, and then put into a round mold steamed, eaten on the day of the small year, signifying the reunion of the reunion.

4, hemp sugar There is a saying called "twenty-three eat hemp sugar, eat not hemp sugar gnawing fingers", refers to the small New Year's day to prepare hemp sugar, hemp sugar is a kind of sugar cubes, the first rice, peanuts, jujube fried, add sugar syrup, so that rice, peanuts, jujube stick together, this is hemp sugar.

5, burnt in the New Year's day, some places in the north will eat burnt, the main ingredients are flour, fresh meat, scallions, peppercorns, etc., and various places due to different local customs, add the ingredients are also different.

6, sticky cake Part of Shandong, there is a folk song called "twenty-three, sticky cake sticky", referring to the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year to eat sticky cake, sticky cake sticky enough, but also has the hope that the king of the stove sticky mouth meaning.

7, rice dumplings There is a saying called "rice dumplings, rice dumplings, high school (rice dumplings)", Nanning people in the small year this day has to eat rice dumplings custom, rice dumplings are generally filled, the filling is generally mung beans and pork, of course, according to their own preferences to decide what to put inside the filling. The outside of the filling is wrapped with glutinous rice, and then wrapped with rice dumpling leaves, so that the rice dumplings are wrapped.

8, pasta in some areas of Shandong, Lunar New Year 23 is also the day of the small year, families have to do big steamed buns, reunion cake, birthday peach and other pasta, the pasta to make a variety of patterns, and then steamed, such pasta is also known as the "noodle flower", meaning that the reunion of the reunion, the year of the surplus.