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Today is the 23rd day of the lunar calendar, the small year. Steamed dumplings with beef and radish. My dad bought this big red radish after autumn and buried it in the soil. He took it out before freezing and put it in a cool place. It tastes quite crisp now. Among the people, Xiaonian is an important folk festival. Xiaonian is also called the Kitchen Festival. What you eat during Xiaonian is also very particular. Eating dumplings During the Stove Festival, people pay attention to eating dumplings to bid farewell to the windward side. People in mountainous areas eat more cakes and buckwheat noodles. In the southeastern part of Shanxi Province, the custom of eating fried corn is popular. There is a folk proverb that says "Twenty-three, if you don't eat fried corn, just pour it in one pot on New Year's Day." People like to bind the fried corn with maltose and freeze it into large pieces, which tastes crispy and sweet. In the old days, regardless of whether you were rich or poor, as long as you had a family and lived together, you would enshrine the statue of the Stove Lord on the wall above the pot table, and paste a couplet on both sides of the statue: God says good things, and the lower world keeps peace. Every family regards the Kitchen God as a god, who controls the fortunes and prosperity of the family. Since he lives in the kitchen all year round and observes the family's activities, he naturally becomes the head of the family.
