What to eat on the twelfth day of the first month

The twelfth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, at noon to make dumplings at home, and the dumplings should be pinched into the shape of a mouse, with a mouth, ears, tail, and green beans as eyes. The reason for this dumpling, in order to pinch the mouse's mouth, which is commonly known as "pinch the mouse's mouth". As long as the day the mouse-like dumplings pinched tightly, and then cooked and eaten, the mouse can not "click click click click" high things, meaning that the next year at home are no rats.

Additionally, on the twelfth day of the first month, the children of each family will be carrying baskets of old shoes from door to door, and the village people are also happy to send out the "evil" (shoes). It is said to be because, in addition to the rat hole is also used to hide in the old shoes do not wear nest pups, so the children to receive the old shoes into the shape of the rat hole burned, symbolizing the families of the rat "a nest of chowder".