According to the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, what to eat on the 23rd and 24th of the lunar m

The main event is the festival of the stove-kun.

Offerings are made at the time of the sacrifice, and sugar is the most prominent of the offerings. It is the primary product of hemp sugar, especially sticky, and is now collectively referred to as hemp sugar. There is a folk proverb of "twenty-three, eat the board".

Foods such as sugar and sweetness are both sweet and sticky. After taking care of eating, he couldn't speak, and his mouth was stuck after heaven, so as to avoid right and wrong.

A few eggs are also placed in the offerings, which are snacks for foxes, weasels and the like. It is said that they are all subordinates of Zao-kun, so they can't help but take a look. In addition to offering incense and sending wine to the stove, it is especially necessary to sprinkle horse material for the stove king's mount, which should be sprinkled from the front of the stove to the kitchen door.

After these rituals are completed, the statue of the Stove King will be taken down and burned. Wait until Chinese New Year's Eve to set up a new statue.

In the festival of the stove, the folk pay attention to eating dumplings, which means "sending off the dumplings to the wind". In mountainous areas, eat more cakes and buckwheat noodles.

In the southeast of Shanxi, the custom of eating fried corn is popular, and the folk proverb has the saying that "twenty-three, do not eat fried, and pour a pot on the first day of the new year". People like to bond fried corn with maltose and freeze it into large pieces, which tastes crispy and sweet.

There are two folk songs in the southeast of Shanxi, one of which is "Twenty-three, send the old man to heaven; twenty-four, sweep the house; Twenty-five, steamed dumplings; xxvi. cut off the flesh; XXVII. Tin wipe; Twenty-eighth, sloppy; Twenty-nine, washing feet and hands; On the thirtieth day, the door god and the couplet were pasted together". It reflects the urgency of the time and the tightness of the preparation.

The second is a nursery rhyme: "Twenty-three, sacrifice the stove, the child claps his hands and laughs." In five or six days, the New Year will come.

Evil box, walnut, drop drop two cannons. The five sons of Dengke ping-pong sounded, ** rose higher than the sky. It reflects the joy of children looking forward to the New Year.

The twenty-third day of the lunar month is the traditional day of the stove in our country, and it is also a small year, so we should eat sugar melon (Kanto sugar) which means: after the king of the stove eats the sugar melon, he sweetens his mouth and lets him go to heaven to say good things to people, that is, to say a few good words for people.

You should eat Kanto sugar, the twenty-third day of the lunar month is also called Xiao Nian, it is the day when the Lord of the Stove reports the situation of the year to the Jade Emperor, so eat the sugar of the Kanto and say more good things, and the Lord of the Stove will also say a few more good words in front of the Jade Emperor.

The 24th day of the lunar month is a small year. This year has different customs from place to place, and as far as my hometown is concerned, this day is the first day to really start preparing for the New Year.

On the 24th, the housewife of the house should start to clean the whole house thoroughly. No horn will be spared. In our hometown, the food on this day should also be particularly rich, and we must get out all the cured meat prepared for the New Year for the children to taste first.

It is said that it is the night of the New Year, and the children are to be sacrificed.

On the 24th, it was still a day when every household made popcorn candy, and now no one wants to make such a cumbersome popcorn candy flakes anymore. But when we were kids, on the 24th, every family made popcorn chips at home. Every family has to make a few baskets to prepare for the Chinese New Year when relatives move around, which is a necessary gift and a snack for the family's hospitality.

At that time, children didn't have much to eat, and they didn't know what snacks were all year round, and they only had snacks to eat during the New Year, and they didn't just make popcorn candy chips on this day. It will also let the children eat a full meal. The children are still singing 'Xiao Nian Xiao Nian, Popcorn Sweet' refers to the popcorn candy chips made from maltose and popcorn on the day of the New Year.

It also means that I hope that life will be sweeter in the coming year.

From the 24th onwards, every household will also start to make a variety of rice crackers. It is to make half of glutinous rice and half of sticky rice, beat it into powder, knead it into a ball, steam it again, and then make it into a variety of flower patterns, and then put it in an oil pan and fry it into a golden crispy crisp. This is also a delicacy that only comes to the Chinese New Year every year.

Now there is no shortage of all kinds of ingredients in the supermarket, and it seems that the next generation does not like to make these traditional delicacies.

This is the reason why many people now say that there is less and less New Year's flavor, thinking that when we were children, from the 24th day, every day was full of surprises, making rice cakes, making sugar chips, making rice crackers, and making sweet potato balls. Adults are busy with their feet and don't touch the ground. The little ones laughed and laughed.

Of course, this Chinese New Year, China's territory is vast, and the food gap between the north and the south is also obvious, and each place has its own local traditions. All I can say is the customs of my hometown.

According to traditional Chinese customs, the 23rd or 24th day of the lunar month is celebrated as a small year, and people usually eat starch candy. Caramel is a food made by fermentation and saccharification of grains such as corn, barley, wheat, millet or maize. Sugary foods made from rice, barley, wheat, millet or corn and other grains by fermentation and saccharification.

It is also known as glutinous and glutinous syrup. There are soft and hard points, and the soft one is a yellow-brown viscous liquid, commonly known as syrup, and there are many non-sugar components; The hard ones are soft caramel that is purified by filtration, the residue is removed, and it is solidified after being mixed with air, which is a porous yellow-white sugar block.

In the "small year", people usually eat dumplings, noodle flowers, sticky cakes, sugar melons, Kanto sugar, and starch candy, and the customs of each place are different.

Generally, the dates of the New Year are different in the north and south, but almost all of them will eat the same thing, that is, the maltose is made into various shapes, commonly known as stove sugar, grain melon seeds, and hemp sugar.

On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, we eat dumplings, Kanto sugar, rice cakes, hemp sugar, fried corn, flour flowers, etc. The twenty-third day of the lunar month generally refers to the small year, the traditional Chinese festival, that is, the traditional day of the stove.

Because the main event of the small year, the festival, is held at night, it is also called "Chinese New Year's Eve" and "Little New Year's Eve". The small year is seen as the beginning of a "busy year". Due to the different customs in different places, the days called "Xiao Nian" are also different, and most regions regard the 23rd or 24th day of the lunar month as "Xiao Nian".

Folk customs on the twenty-third day of the lunar month:

1. The sacrificial stove is an important activity on this day of the New Year. The duty of the god of the stove is to take charge of the fire and manage the food. The sacrificial stove has a history of thousands of years in Chinese folk, and the belief in the god of the stove is a reflection of the dream pursuit of the Chinese people for "more food and clothing".

In the old days, almost every stove was equipped with a "stove king" shrine. Known as the "Shomei Bodhisattva" or "Stove King Shomei", this deity is in charge of the fires of each house and is worshipped as the protector of the family. Most of the shrines of the stove king are located in the north or east of the stove room, and the statue of the king of the stove is offered in the middle.

There are also people who do not have a shrine for the king of the stove, and there are also people who stick the idol directly on the wall.

2. Sweep the dust.

On this day of the new year, it is still a day to sweep the dust. The custom of sweeping dust at the end of the year has been formed in the Song Dynasty, when on Chinese New Year's Eve, the Ming and Qing dynasties generally focused on sending the god Vesta, and the folk said that the god Vega went to heaven, and the home was cleaned without scruples. Of course, the folk also have to clean before sending the stove, they have another explanation, saying that the god of the stove paints dust to remember the good and evil things, and is ready to report to the emperor based on this, in order to erase the record of the god of the stove, so before sending the stove, people dust off the smoke.

1. Eat stove sugar.

As the saying goes, "Twenty-three, sugar melon sticky", when the New Year is celebrated, people will buy sugar melon, Kanto sugar, hemp candy and other offerings, praying for the stove king's mouth to be sweeter, and God will say good things.

2. New Year's dumplings. Zhuang, Han, Yi and other ethnic festival customs. It is prevalent in the western part of Guangxi. Wrapping dumplings is hard work. Usually the Chinese New Year's Eve does not eat rice dumplings, and worships ancestors and worships gods.

The twenty-third day of the lunar month, also known as the "small year", is the day of the folk sacrifice stove, and there is no hard requirement for what breakfast to eat;

Fan Chengda of the Song Dynasty said in his "Poem of Sacrificing the Stove": "In ancient times, on the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, the king of the stove wanted to say something. The cloud car wind horse is small and stays, and the family has a cup and plate ceremony.

The pig's head is rotten and hot double fish fresh, and the bean paste is sweet pine powder bait. The man sacrificed his daughter to avoid, and drank and burned the money stove Junxi. The servant fights against the king, and the cat and dog horns are filthy; Send the king drunk and full to the gate of heaven, the long ladle and the short ladle do not return to the clouds, and beg for the return of the city.

Sacrificial stove customs. Interpretation: "Stove." Create, create, create, food.

The duty of the god of the stove was to take charge of the fire and manage the diet, which was later expanded to investigate the good and evil in the world in order to bring blessings and misfortunes. The sacrificial stove has a history of thousands of years in Chinese folk, and the belief in the god of the stove is a reflection of the Chinese people's pursuit of the dream of "having more food and clothing".

The traditional day of the folk sacrifice stove is the 24th day of the lunar month, and most of the southern regions still maintain the ancient tradition of celebrating the 24th lunar month. From the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the emperor's family held a ceremony to worship the sky on the 23rd day of the lunar month, in order to "save expenses", by the way, the king of the stove also worshipped, so the northern region mostly celebrated the New Year on the 23rd of the lunar month.

According to custom, dumplings should be eaten on the morning of the twenty-third day of the lunar month, so as to be able to meet the standards of customs and the meaning of following the customs.

According to the custom, the twenty-third day of the lunar month is a small year, and we generally eat dumplings for breakfast on the twenty-third day of the lunar month, but the customs of each place are different, so the food is not the same.

We are in the Northeast. Custom. The twenty-third day of the lunar month belongs to the small year. As with the general situation, it is also eaten dumplings. After all, it's the New Year.

The twenty-third day of the lunar month is a small year, and our custom here is to eat dumplings.

The twenty-third day of the lunar month is a small year, and according to custom, dumplings are generally eaten.

Caramel is a food made by fermentation and saccharification of grains such as corn, barley, wheat, millet or maize. It is also a traditional Chinese medicine, sweet and warm, return to the spleen, stomach, lung meridians, clinically mainly used to tonify the spleen and invigorate qi, relieve pain, moisten the lungs and relieve cough, ** spleen and stomach qi deficiency, Zhongjiao deficiency and cold, lung deficiency and cough, shortness of breath and asthma, etc., are used in many prescriptions. In addition, caramelize also has a certain degree of reducibility, can resist oxidation, has a large osmotic pressure, and can inhibit the growth and reproduction of microorganisms in the preparation [1].

The 23rd folk of the lunar month, also known as Chinese New Year's Eve, is a day for people to worship the god vesta in traditional Chinese culture. The customs of traditional food are different in the north and south, among which the more common in the north is that Oak Jingsen eats dumplings, which means to send away the god of the stove. In the south, there may be more rice cakes or rice browns.

It is reported that some areas in Gongcheng Yao Autonomous County have the custom of killing pigs and drinking pig soup during the New Year.

It is understood that some areas of Guangxi still have the habit of making "rice cakes" such a traditional food, with glutinous rice as the main ingredient to make round beams, meaning reunion.