Is the sixth day of the first month off-year

The sixth day of the Lunar New Year is Horse Day. On this day, sending the poor is a distinctive folk custom in China. There are different ways to send the poor to all parts of China. Off-year time varies from place to place. The general off-year time is as follows: most parts of the north: the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month. Most parts of the south: the 24th of the twelfth lunar month. Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai: the day before New Year's Eve. Parts of Sichuan and Guizhou: New Year's Eve. Nanjing and other places: the fifteenth day of the first month (Lantern Festival).

Off-year this day, the northern region is used to eating jiaozi at night, which means to send away the kitchen god and "send away the windward side of jiaozi". I also want to eat the kitchen king candy, which is a kind of sugar product made of malt and millet. In Shandong, people want to eat steamed sticky cakes, which means to stick the mouth of the kitchen god and let him say the good things in the sky, not the bad things on earth. In the southeast of Shanxi, there is a custom of eating fried corn. There is a saying in the folk proverb that "23. If you don't eat fried food, pour a pot for the New Year". In Jing 'an County, people want to eat popcorn candy, which means that the new year will be rich and sweet. In Shandong Peninsula, most people began to make jujube cakes, reunion cakes, birthday peaches and other noodles on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, which indicated that the whole family was happy, and the days were getting more and more year by year.