Eating honeydew melon is for good luck. The old man said that the annual meeting will send away the work of Kitchen God in the past year, and this day will become a traditional festival to worship Kitchen God. If any family doesn't make sacrifices to satisfy the Kitchen God, he will speak ill of the family and let the Jade Emperor punish him, so people will gradually choose to sacrifice to the Kitchen God on this day.

In ancient times, because every household usually posted a portrait of the kitchen god near the stove, and sometimes it was accompanied by a portrait of the grandmother of the kitchen king, after a year of smoky fire, the portrait was old and black.

Remove the old image and put candy, water, beans and grass on the table in front of the kitchen king; Among them, the last three are to prepare materials for the kitchen god's mount to ascend to heaven, and to bribe him by sticking a sticky melon or cake on his mouth, so that his "sweet mouth" can only say good things, that is, "Heaven speaks good things and goes back to the palace for good luck."

Therefore, eating honeydew melon in off-year is one of the customs in off-year Buy a new portrait after the new year, please reply to the chef.

2. The origin of eating jiaozi in the coming year.

Off-year is also the day when the kitchen god goes to heaven. It is said that the Kitchen God likes to report beating people when he returns to heaven after spending a year on earth, so he asked Wang to seal his mouth with the Kitchen God's candy that day and eat jiaozi, a festive member, with the whole family.

Jiaozi is used to eating it in the northern New Year's Eve, which means to bid farewell to Kitchen God and "send away the windward side of jiaozi". When offering sacrifices, jiaozi should be placed on the platform. In addition, there is a folk saying "delicious but not as good as jiaozi". During the Spring Festival, jiaozi has become an indispensable food.

Other off-year customs:

1, clean the house

In fact, it is also called dusting, and dusting is also called dusting, slag removal, dusting and dusting. It is one of the traditional folk customs during the Spring Festival in China, and it has entrusted the working people in China with a good wish to ward off evil spirits, avoid disasters and welcome good luck.

2. Take a clean bath.

Taking a bath before the Chinese New Year is to put on new clothes and string relatives for the Chinese New Year. There is a saying among the people that "you can shave your head for the New Year if you have money".

3. Set off firecrackers and burn yellow paper to send to Kitchen God.

At dusk, the family first sets the table in the kitchen, incense the kitchen god in the shrine on the kitchen wall and offer sacrifices to the kitchen god. After the sacrifice, the statue of "Nine-day East Chef Commanding Kitchen God" pasted for one year was burned together with the paper horse.