There is a traditional custom in China that the twelfth lunar month is "off-year". What do people usually eat?

Eating "sticky honeydew melon" refers to the custom of eating honeydew melon to worship the god of food on the 23rd lunar month, that is, "boiling sugar". Sucrose is a high viscosity maltose. The long cane is called "Guangdong sugar" and the flat round cane is called "sugar melon". Drive him out in winter. Because of the cold, the honeydew melon solidified and there were some small bubbles in it. It tastes crisp and sweet, and it's delicious. Many places have the habit of eating melons to worship the kitchen god. It is said that on this day, the god of food will return to heaven and report your situation to the Jade Emperor. Therefore, every household will offer melon to the god of food, making it sweet in the sky, just saying something nice to make it sweeter and sweeter in the coming year.

"In Luxi, there is a dance that has been popular for 23 years. The sticky cake is sticky. Every household will steam sticky sugar and eat sticky sugar, that is, stick it on the mouth of the kitchen god and let him talk well in the sky, instead of glutinous rice cakes made of yellow rice and red dates like this. They are sweet and strong. The entrance is soft and the taste is "higher every year". In addition, Hainan people use coconuts to make coconut cakes for eating and praying, which means "getting taller every year".

Children used to sing the above songs, expecting adults to buy melons quickly. "Melon" is sticky sugar boiled with yellow rice and malt. Long sugarcane is called "Guangdong sugar" and oblate sugarcane is called "sugar melon", which is listed in winter. Because of the cold, the honeydew melon solidified and there were some small bubbles in it. It tastes crisp, sweet and delicious.

When a house is hot, it will turn into a sticky hard candy bubble. This sticky maltose was recorded in Jingchu Yearbook of Jin Dynasty. At that time, it was called "Jiaoya" (sound form). Bai Juyi, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, once wrote a poem: "Push Wei Lan wine at the age of 20, and persuade elegance at the beginning of spring". It can be seen that in the Tang Dynasty, maltose, like precious wine, has become a necessity during the Spring Festival. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, maltose was used again. When you sacrifice to the kitchen god, maltose becomes a weapon to gag you.