What traditional food to eat during the lunar new year
4hw.com.cn: with the acceleration of the Spring Festival, the taste of the new year is getting stronger and stronger. December 23 is a traditional Chinese New Year. Many places also mean the beginning of the year. What do you eat in the new year? Let's take a look at what food to eat in Xiaonian.
What do you eat for the new year?
On the festival of offering sacrifices to cooks, people pay attention to eating dumplings, which means' seeing off dumplings to the windward side '. Eat more cakes and buckwheat noodles in mountainous areas. In southeastern Shanxi, the custom of eating fried corn is popular. The folk proverb has the saying '23, don't eat fried, pour in one pot at the beginning of the year'. People like to stick fried corn with maltose, freeze it into large pieces, and eat it crispy and sweet.
According to folklore, Lord Zaojun was specially accused of human sins. Once accused, his life will be reduced by 300 days for major crimes and 100 days for minor crimes. In the chapter of supreme induction, there is also a description of "seizing his discipline and calculation according to his orders". Si Ming refers to Zaojun, which is counted as 100 days, and Ji refers to 12 years. Here, the felony sentence has been increased to reduce life by 12 years. Therefore, when offering sacrifices to the kitchen, we should take care of the kitchen king and ask him to raise his hand.
In northern Shanxi, there is a folk song "on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, Grandpa Zaojun, you go to heaven, eat a sugar plate in your mouth, don't speak in front of the Jade Emperor, come back to our house for the new year, have rice, face and clothes", which shows your pursuit and longing for a better life.
What day is Xiaonian?
Xiaonian, the 23rd or 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, is a festival to offer sacrifices to the kitchen god. The small year of 2019 is January 17, which is the beginning and foreshadowing of the whole spring festival celebrations. There are two main activities: sweeping the new year and offering sacrifices to the stove. In addition, there is the custom of eating kitchen candy. In some places, they also eat fire, sugar cakes, oil cakes and tofu soup. As early as the Song Dynasty, there was a record of the lunar new year on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, but at that time, the lunar new year was not divided into two days. Therefore, the custom of the lunar new year on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month has a longer history. So when did it change? This is the Qing Dynasty. Since the reign of Yongzheng, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty worshipped gods in the Kunning Palace on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month every year. In order to save money, the emperor worshipped the kitchen god by the way. Later, the royal family and Baylor followed suit and offered sacrifices to the stove on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. Since then, there has been a distinction between officials and people in different days.