What are the off-year customs in Beijing?

1, fire is eaten in the north, and the stove is sacrificed on this day of off-year. In addition to eating stove candy, fire is also a very distinctive seasonal food. In the past, on this day, the business of biscuit stalls in the city was very prosperous.

2, eat honeydew melon, caramel, sesame candy In the north, honeydew melon, caramel, sesame candy and other foods were originally for the kitchen god, and later gradually evolved into snacks that children must eat every other year. There is a saying in the northwest of Shanxi that "you can't chew your fingers with sesame candy."

3. Cutting and pasting window grilles on stick grilles is a popular folk activity in the north. Generally, there are patterns of window grilles, such as magpies climbing plum blossoms, peacocks beating peonies, lions rolling hydrangeas, three sheep (yang) opening Thailand, two dragons playing with pearls, Yuanyang playing with water and so on.

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Off-year, a traditional festival in China, is also called Lunar New Year Festival, Kitchen God Festival and Kitchen God Festival. Folk activities in off-year mainly include sweeping dust and offering sacrifices to stoves. China has a vast territory and different customs. Due to different customs, the days called "off-year" are also different.

Most areas in the south are the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, and the north is the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. In Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, "the 24th of the twelfth lunar month" and "the night before New Year's Eve" are both called off-year. In Nanjing, the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month is called off-year. The off-year date in some parts of Yunnan is the 16th day of the first month, and New Year's Eve is in some parts of southwest and north.