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Why eat popcorn on the first day of the twelfth lunar month?

A: In ancient times, there was a custom of biting disasters on the first day of the twelfth lunar month.

Eat popcorn, fried melon seeds, peanuts, soybeans, soybeans, eggs and other foods on the first day of the twelfth lunar month. Hometown people call this "bite disaster", which is said to be disaster relief and refuge. "On the first day of the twelfth lunar month, the whole family is not sick." This is the first folk song about the twelfth month. Popcorn crackles in the pot, indicating the end of a year and the beginning of a new year.