1, eat jiaozi, and the people pay attention to eating jiaozi, which means "look down on the windward side of jiaozi". Eat more cakes and buckwheat noodles in mountainous areas. There is a saying in the folk proverb "Twenty-three, don't eat fried food, pour a pot for the New Year".
2, eat stove candy, stove candy is a kind of maltose, sticky. The candy that is drawn into a long strip is called "Guandong Sugar", and the candy that is drawn into a flat circle is called "Tanggua".
3. eat honeydew melon. There are two kinds of honeydew melons with sesame seeds and without sesame seeds. They are shaped like melons or made of sugar. The center is empty and the skin thickness is less than five points. Although the size is different, the transaction is still calculated by weight. The big honeydew melon weighs one or two Jin, but few people buy it as a cover. The reason for offering sugar to the stove is to stick the mouth of the stove owner. Legend has it that Lord Zao is a god sent by the Jade Emperor to supervise good and evil. He has the responsibility of communicating with others, connecting feelings and transmitting fairyland and human information. When it went to heaven, people gave it stove candy, hoping that it would eat sweets and say good things in front of the Jade Emperor. It is also said that the candy used for offering sacrifices to the stove is not stuck on the mouth of the stove owner, but on the mouth of the greedy and gossipy stove owner.
4, Kwantung sugar, Kwantung sugar, also known as chef candy, big candy. After one year, it will only be sold around the next year. Guandong sugar is a sugar product made of malt and millet, which is used to worship the kitchen god.
5, sesame candy, there is a saying in northwestern Shanxi called "23 eat sesame candy, eat sesame candy and lick your fingers." It is said that off-year is the day when the kitchen god goes to heaven. He will report to the Heaven Emperor the food and clothing consumption of the world in the past year and other things that the Heaven Emperor wants to know.
6, rice cakes, the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, commonly known as "off-year", Guangxi Wuxuan, Guiping and other places 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".
7. Nianzongzi, Nanning people have the custom of eating Nianzongzi in the coming year. Zongzi 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.