The Discovery and Exploration of Traditional Festivals in China

Off-year, that is, the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month, is a festival to worship the kitchen god. It is the beginning and foreshadowing of the whole Spring Festival celebration, and there are two main activities: sweeping graves to celebrate the New Year and offering sacrifices to stoves. In addition, there is the custom of eating stove candy. In some places, we also eat fire, sugar cakes, oil cakes and tofu soup. 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. On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, Heaven speaks well, so go home.

Sacrifice a stove

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Welcome the Spring Festival to celebrate the Spring Festival, and offer sacrifices to the stove to pray for the company's life.

Wine, food, cakes, sugar and jiaozi, bring them back to their prosperous homes.

the Spring Festival; Chinese New Year

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With the firecrackers, the old year passed and everything was gone.

Family reunion is strong, and hundreds of people are happy.

In folk customs, the following things should be done to sacrifice the white stove: support.

1. First of all, the location of the niche of Kitchen God is very important. Most of them are located in the north or east of the kitchen, with the god of the kitchen in the middle.

2. Secondly, there are 23 kinds of food for offering sacrifices to the kitchen stove, including kitchen candy, lotus seed eight-treasure rice and "sending jiaozi to the windward side" to send the kitchen god to eat jiaozi. What should be prepared for the kitchen god's mount? Stir-fried beans and clear water should not be bitter for the mount of Kitchen God.

3. When offering sacrifices to Zhao Jun, set up offerings, burn incense and worship, and then enter the wine for the first time. At this time, you should sincerely pray to Zao Jun, and then enter the wine for the second time. After drinking for the third time, the old statue of Zao Jun was torn off and burned together with Shenma and money, indicating the successful completion of the ceremony.

4. Burning a horse with paper paste is to make a mount for the kitchen god. You should prepare some soybeans and hay as dry food and forage for the kitchen god and the horse to travel long distances.

5, after sending the stove, of course, you have to pick up the kitchen god to go home! Most stoves are connected on New Year's Eve, and some are connected on New Year's Day or as late as the 15th day of the first month. We should set up a new god and a new statue of the kitchen god.