Today's northern small year | the small year of the hearth sacrifice stove words twenty-three days of sugar melon sticky

January 25, 2022, the 23rd day of the lunar month, today is the northern year of the mainland. The small year means the beginning of a busy year, and on this day, the northern part of the mainland has customs such as sweeping the house, offering stoves and eating stove sugar, expressing people's good wishes to leave the old and welcome the new, and to welcome the good fortune. As the saying goes, "twenty-three, sugar melon sticky", sugar melon is similar to the practice of Kanto sugar, except that Kanto sugar is long stripe, and sugar melon is pulled into a flat round shape, which is sweet and crispy to eat. Mainland folk have: "On the twenty-third day of the waxing moon, send the king of the stove back to the emperor." Prepare the bean straw for the horses, melt the stove sugar to stick the lips. "Therefore, in the New Year, people will buy candy melons, Kanto sugar, hemp candy and other offerings, praying that the king of the stove will be sweeter and the heavens will say good things." Friends in the north also know which small New Year customs, welcome to share in the comment area. The little year has arrived, may the king be safe and healthy! (Text/Zhu Zixuan Photo/Li Han)

Source: China Youth Daily client