What are the specific customs of off-year and what do people usually eat?

Lead: Off-year is also a holiday warm-up before the Spring Festival. Off-year also has many traditional customs and many delicious traditional foods, which are full of festive significance. So what are the customs of off-year specifically? What do people usually eat on this day? Let's take a look at it next.

The specific custom of off-year is 1. On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, every household began to offer sacrifices to the kitchen god at the end of the 23rd. There is a custom among Han people that "men don't Yue Bai, and women don't sacrifice stoves".

2. Dust removal Traditionally, every household got up at dawn, cleaned the house and windows, washed clothes, scrubbed pots and pans, and carried out a clean and thorough cleaning. Northerners call it "sweeping the house"; Southerners call it "dust removal".

3. Cut the window grilles. Among all the customs of off-year holidays, cut the window grilles is the most popular folk activity.

After the Spring Festival couplets are posted, every family should start preparing for them. Because in the folk, pay attention to God paste, every household will paste, everything will paste.

5. It is advisable to get married after a small year. People think that everything can be forgiven by the gods. You don't have to choose a date to marry a daughter-in-law and prostitution. This is called rushing to get married. So, by the end of the year, there will be more wedding ceremonies.

Xiaonian 1 What do you usually eat in traditional food? People in Nanning have the custom of eating zongzi in the new year, which is a symbol of good luck in the New Year. As the saying goes, "Nianzongzi is the year of high school (Zongzi)". The New Year's Zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is different from Liang Zongzi. It has stuffing, big and small, long and short, round and flat. After peeling off the leaves, the skin is glutinous rice, and the stuffing is mung bean and pork. Some people use their favorite food as stuffing.

2. Pasta In Shandong Peninsula, most people have been busy making noodles such as jujube cakes (also called big steamed buns), reunion cakes and longevity peaches since the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, indicating that the whole family is reunited and the days are more than enough. It is more troublesome to do. Wake up after kneading dough, knead dough and then wake up, then make various pasta shapes and then wake up, and then put them in a steamer. Steamed pasta is also called "noodle flower", which is very delicious, but it takes a lot of time.

3. fried corn in the southeast of Shanxi, there is a custom of eating fried corn. There is a folk proverb, "Twenty-three, don't eat fried, pour the pot on the first day of New Year's Day". People like to bond fried corn with maltose and freeze it into pieces, which tastes crisp and sweet.

Tanggua Tanggua is an ancient traditional name of the Han nationality, which is not only food for the Spring Festival, but also a sacrifice (offering sacrifices to the kitchen god). In the past, I asked Wang to buy some candies made of maltose, such as honeydew melon and Guandong sugar, on the 23rd, not only for him to put in a good word when he boarded the Jade Emperor, but also for sticking the candy on the Kitchen God's mouth to prevent him from saying more. There is such a two-part allegorical saying in Beijing: "The kitchen god ascended to heaven-speak well".

5. What food does jiaozi eat during the Spring Festival? Jiaozi is indispensable. Jiaozi is used to eating it in the northern New Year's Eve, which means to bid farewell to Kitchen God and "send away the windward side of jiaozi". When offering sacrifices, jiaozi should be placed on the platform. In addition, there is a folk saying "delicious but not as good as jiaozi". During the Spring Festival, jiaozi has become an indispensable food.

6. The 23 rd year cake of the twelfth lunar month is commonly known as "off-year". People in Wuxuan, Guiping and other places in Guangxi have the custom of making rice cakes. The rice cake is made of glutinous rice flour as the main material, peanuts, sesame seeds and sugar as the ingredients, put into a mold to make it round, and then steamed at high temperature, with a unique flavor and the meaning of "round and round".