What customs and cultures are there during the off-year period?

Off-year customs and cultures include: 1, eating pasta in the north (meaning family reunion, the days are getting more and more year by year), roasted meat (besides eating stove candy, roasted meat is also a very distinctive seasonal food on the day of sacrifice), and marriage (folk songs include "The country is busy getting married in the New Year, and Yichun posts make spring." Sisters talk privately in front of the lights. This year is the bridal chamber. ), kwantung sugar (kwantung sugar is also called chef candy, big candy. ), fried corn (there is a saying in the folk proverb called "Twenty-three, don't eat fried, the New Year's Eve-the pot fell down"), sticky cakes (meaning sticky kitchen god's mouth, let him say the good things in the sky, not the bad things in the world. )。 2. In the south, there are Zen dust (that is, sweeping away old things) and eating rice cakes (that is, people's work and life are improving year by year). ), offering sacrifices to the kitchen god to ascend to heaven, so off-year is also called the festival of offering sacrifices to the kitchen. )。

The off-year in the south is not on the same day as that in the north, because there is a saying that "three officials, four boats and five people". In the past, the north was located in the political center and was greatly influenced by bureaucracy, so the off-year was designated as the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, while the south still followed the custom of the 24th of the twelfth lunar month.

Brief introduction of off-year:

Off-year, a traditional festival in China, is also called "Chinese New Year Festival", "Kitchen God Festival" and "Kitchen Festival". Folk activities in off-year mainly include sweeping dust and offering sacrifices to stoves. China has a vast territory, and customs vary greatly from place to place. Due to different customs, the days called off-year are also different. The 24th of the twelfth lunar month is the "off-year" in most parts of southern China, and the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month is the "off-year" in most parts of northern China.