Lunar New Year is celebrated on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month. What do people usually eat?

In off-year, people pay attention to eating jiaozi, which means "you can't see the windward side of jiaozi". Eat more cakes and buckwheat noodles in mountainous areas. In the southeast of Shanxi, the custom of eating fried corn is popular. A folk proverb says, "Twenty-three, don't eat fried, on New Year's Eve-pour it all at once."

People like to bond fried corn with maltose and freeze it into pieces, which tastes crisp and sweet. In addition to eating stove candy, fire is also a very distinctive seasonal food on the day of sacrifice. On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the business of biscuit stalls in the city is booming. Besides honeydew melons, there are offerings from jiaozi, which means "get up and leave jiaozi to eat noodles", and some even offer noodles.

Other customs in the 23rd lunar month: sweeping dust.

1. After twenty-three, there are only six or seven days left before the Spring Festival, and the preparations for the Spring Festival are even more enthusiastic. To thoroughly clean the room, commonly known as sweeping the dust, sweeping the dust is to go to the old and welcome the new, and remove the ominous. Every household should be carefully and thoroughly cleaned to make the windows bright and clean. Paint walls, scrub glass, put up windows, put up New Year pictures and so on.

In the twelfth lunar month, every family is ready for the New Year. Sweep the dust is to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and remove the ominous. Every household should be carefully and thoroughly cleaned to make the windows bright and clean. In Beijing, the 24th of the twelfth lunar month is usually designated as "House Sweeping Day".

Dust removal is mainly to clean the house thoroughly. Housewives usually cover the bed furniture in the room first, wrap their heads with headscarves, and then sweep the walls up and down with a broom. Clean the house, scrub the tables and chairs, and clean the floor. After cleaning the house, the shops and residents' homes are completely new. The newly posted Spring Festival couplets are bright and dazzling, showing the prosperity of the world. Lifelike door gods, looking up at happy banners, exquisite window grilles, colorful New Year pictures, colorful lanterns and rich sacrifices on shrines all present a festive scene.