What's the relationship between sugar and Spring Festival customs?

In the custom of the Spring Festival, there is a custom of offering sacrifices to the stove, and wine, meat, candy, sugar cane, rice fruit and so on should be placed on the stove.

On the 23rd or 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, the kitchen stove should be cleaned after dark, and the old kitchen stove should be removed and burned. In addition to posting new pictures in the morning and evening, there are also wine, meat, candy, sugar cane and rice fruit. To put incense, light candles and light paper cannons.

The folk activities of offering sacrifices to the kitchen god can be traced back to the pre-Qin period, but at the beginning, the day of offering sacrifices to the kitchen god was not in the early years. Zheng Xuan commented on the Book of Rites: "(Kitchen God) lives in the world, and the procurator is too young to blame." Legend has it that from the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month to New Year's Eve, these days are the days when Kitchen God returns to the palace.

On New Year's Eve, the Kitchen God will be invited to descend to earth again, and the people will hang up the idol of the Kitchen God before preparing for the New Year's Eve. According to "Records of Local Customs" written by Zhou Chu, a celebrity in Jin Dynasty in China, "On the 24th night of the twelfth lunar month, the kitchen god offered sacrifices to heaven, and he was one year old the next day, so he offered sacrifices to the day first."