What does twenty-eight mean?

Twenty-eight is the common name of the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month in China, and it is also one of the traditional festivals of the Spring Festival in China.

China folk songs on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month include "Twenty-eighth of the twelfth lunar month, mixing noodles" and making cakes and buns with decals. Folk customs and traditions in China have arrived on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, and every household should start preparing the staple food for the New Year, whether it is mixing flour or steaming steamed bread. Customs vary from place to place. For example, in the border areas of Shandong, Hebei and Henan provinces, and in the border areas of Susong and Taihu Lake in Anhui Province, many people with surnames celebrate the New Year on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month.

Traditional cuisine of the northern twelfth lunar month

1, creature

It is a custom in the north to eat jiaozi to send the kitchen god on New Year's Eve. There is a folk saying that jiaozi is delicious, which is an essential food in the twelfth lunar month.

2. Fire

Shao is a special seasonal food, which is very popular with people. Northerners usually prepare fires when they sacrifice stoves on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month.

3. Cooking sugar

Kitchen candy is a sweet, crisp and sticky maltose. There are also longan candy and flat honeydew melon, all of which have unique flavors.

4. Stir-fry corn

People in southeastern Shanxi like to stick fried corn together with maltose and freeze it into pieces.

5. Flower cotton

Shandong people think that flour flowers represent family reunion, which is more than enough every year, so every household will make jujube cakes, reunion cakes, birthday peaches and so on.