Why do you want to eat honeydew melon in the next year?

The reasons for eating honeydew melons in off-year are as follows:

Off-year is a traditional day for offering sacrifices to stoves in northern China, and many places have the custom of eating honeydew melons to offer sacrifices to the kitchen owners. According to folklore, on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, Kitchen God will report to heaven on his work in the past year. Putting sugar in the kitchen god's mouth in advance is to let the kitchen god speak well in front of the jade emperor and pray for peace and prosperity in the coming year. Therefore, honeydew melon has become one of the traditional foods in off-year.

Candied melons are generally made of yellow rice and maltose, long and oblate. Take a bite, sweet and delicious, crisp and refreshing. However, it is best to eat honeydew melons, and don't be greedy.

As the name implies, honeydew melon is sweet, a traditional dessert in ancient times, and also a food for the Spring Festival and an object for offering sacrifices to stoves. The long candied haws are called Guandong sugar, and the flat candied haws are made of yellow rice and maltose, which are very sticky. The honeydew melon just made is very fragrant and sticky, and has a particularly unique taste. It is basically a kind of sugar that men, women and children like.

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Legend has it that Kitchen God was also a common people at first. His name is Zhang Sheng, and his family is very rich. His wife was infertile and was divorced by Zhang Sheng. After remarriage, the wife was lazy, ruined and starved to death. Zhang sheng was reduced to begging in the street. One day, he didn't expect to beg at his ex-wife's house. He was ashamed and burned to death.

The Jade Emperor thought that Zhang Sheng could have this kind of consciousness, and in the end it was not bad, and he was named the Kitchen God. Every year, on the 23rd and 24th of the twelfth lunar month, he reports the evil deeds or good deeds of his family to the Jade Emperor, and returns to the bottom of the kitchen on New Year's Eve, from which the next year comes.