Why do you want to eat sesame candy in off-year

There is a saying in the workshop that "on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the kitchen god goes to heaven, reports human affairs, comes down to earth in good luck, and keeps the people safe". "Sacrificing stoves" has been a traditional culture of China people for thousands of years. The kitchen god is used to keep a family safe and prosperous for a year.

The ancient people in China believed that, for example, there was a lamp god, a land god, a jade emperor and all kinds of gods in the sky. The ancients didn't ask for much, they just wanted to eat and wear warm clothes, so eating was the first thing. So there is a kitchen god in this cooking kitchen. Then on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, it is the day when Kitchen God reports his work to the Jade Emperor every year. He will report the good and bad things of people to the Jade Emperor.

The content of the report is that I was in this family this year, and I heard that this family is good or bad, and how many good things this family has done.

Then, as human beings, in order to keep him from telling the Jade Emperor bad things, people will eat sesame candy. Put some sugar on the mouth of the kitchen god, because the kitchen god can help people put in a good word in front of the jade emperor and let him "speak well in the sky and make good luck on the earth." This is the reason for eating sesame candy for the next year.

After talking about why we should eat sesame candy in off-year, I said that there are many other things besides eating sesame candy on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month.

1. jiaozi

Every year, many northern friends are used to eating jiaozi at night, and eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve is to send the kitchen god away, which means "to send away the windward side of jiaozi". As the most representative holiday food, jiaozi is also called Joule and jiaozi, which means the alternation of the old and the new. The whole family sat together, making dough, stuffing, kneading dough and rolling dumpling wrappers, eating hot jiaozi, enjoying themselves and welcoming the New Year.

2. Tangyuan

Many southern families will eat some delicious jiaozi on New Year's Eve, which symbolizes "sweetness" and "reunion". There are many kinds of jiaozi nowadays, including sweet fillings, sweet jiaozi with sesame seeds, red bean paste, yellow peaches, strawberries, oranges and other fruits, and salty jiaozi with fresh meat, shepherd's purse, corn and radish. Southerners love jiaozi just as northerners love jiaozi.

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Shao, in fact, is similar to sesame seed cake or China steamed stuffed bun, and it is also a very distinctive seasonal food. In Henan, there is fire to eat on this day of off-year. In addition to the fire made of meat, there are brown sugar biscuits and sesame paste biscuits, especially brown sugar baked with brown sugar, which is a folk homonym and indicates that life will be prosperous in the coming year.

Summary: People will eat sesame candy when they are young. It also indicates that sesame blossoms are getting higher and higher. It is people's hope to get better every year, and it is also a beautiful expectation and yearning.