Why do you eat fire in the north for the New Year?

Because for northerners, eating fire is almost equal to a small year, and a small year without fire is not a complete small year. This is also dedicated to Grandpa Chef, hoping to seal his mouth. After the sacrifice, these sweets will naturally be shared by people. On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, brown sugar biscuits and sesame paste baked with flour and brown sugar are burned with sugar, which is in short supply, and the folk take its homophonic sound, indicating good luck in the coming year.

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It is a traditional custom to have a small annual leave. Most of the north is on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, and most of the south is on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month. Since the Song Dynasty, there has been a saying that "official holidays are twenty-three, folk holidays are twenty-four, and family holidays are twenty-five". In the Southern Song Dynasty, the off-year of the Jin Dynasty was also designated as the 22nd of the twelfth lunar month.

The origin of off-year

As early as the Song Dynasty, there was a record that the twelfth lunar month passed the off-year period, but at that time the off-year period was divided into two days. Therefore, the custom of the twenty-fourth year of the twelfth lunar month has a longer history. So when did it change? This is going to the Qing Dynasty. The Qing emperor began to offer sacrifices to the gods in Kunning Palace on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. In order to save money, the emperor also offered sacrifices to the kitchen god. Later, the royal family and Baylor followed suit and sacrificed stoves on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. Since then, there has been a division between the government and the people, and they live a small life on different days.

It is said that every year on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, Kitchen God will tell the Jade Emperor about the good and evil of this family and let the Jade Emperor reward and punish them. Therefore, when sending stoves, people put sugar, water, beans and grass on the console table in front of the statue of the kitchen king, and the last three are for the kitchen king to mount to heaven. When offering sacrifices to the stove, you should melt the Guandong sugar with fire and put it on the mouth of the kitchen god. In this way, he can't speak ill of the jade emperor There is a folk custom that "men don't Yue Bai, women don't offer sacrifices to stoves", so the owner of offering sacrifices to stoves is limited to men.