What do Fujian people eat on the New Year's Day?

1, eat dumplings

Stove Festival, the folk say eat dumplings, meaning "send off dumplings to meet the wind face". Mountainous areas eat cake and buckwheat. Jin Dongnan region, the popular custom of eating fried corn, folk proverb has "twenty-three, do not eat fried, the first day of the New Year a pot down," the saying. People like to fry corn with maltose bonded together, frozen into large blocks, eat crispy and sweet. In the old days, rich or poor, as long as it is the top door into the family life, we must be in the pot on the wall, dedicated to the image of Zaowang, on both sides of the image of a couplet: "the word of good things in the sky, the lower world to keep the peace according to."

2, eat stove sugar

The stove sugar is a kind of sticky mouth and sticky malt sugar, it is drawn as a long sugar stick called "Guandong sugar", pulled into a flat round type is called "sugar melon". Put it outside the house in winter, because of the cold weather, sugar melon solidified solid and some tiny bubbles inside, eat it crispy sweet and crispy, a unique flavor. The real Guandong sugar is very hard, can not be broken, when eating must be split with a kitchen knife, the material is very heavy and fine. Slightly sour taste, the middle of the absolutely no honeycomb, each piece weighs one or two, two or four, the price is also more expensive.

3, Guandong sugar

Guandong sugar, also known as Zaowang sugar, big sugar. During the year, it is only sold before and after the New Year. Guandong sugar is a sugar product made of malt and millet, which is used for sacrificing to the God of Zao. Qing people wrote the "Yanjing yearly record" recorded: the Qing dynasty sacrificial stove, offerings in the "Guandong sugar", "sugar cake".

4, eat sugar melon

Sugar melon with sesame and no sesame two kinds of sugar made melon shape or melon shape, the center is empty, the skin is less than five points thick, although the size of the different, but the deal is still calculated by the weight, the big sugar melon weighing one or two pounds, but used as a front to buy very few people. The reason for the sacrificial stove for stove sugar, is to stick to the mouth of the stove master. Legend has it that Master Zao was sent by the Jade Emperor to the earth to supervise the gods of good and evil, and it has the duty of communicating up and down, liaising with the feelings of the heaven and earth, and passing on information between the fairyland and the mortal world.