The custom and origin of off-year

1. Off-year is a traditional festival of Han nationality in China. It is the beginning and foreshadowing of the whole Spring Festival celebration. Also known as Xie Zao, Zao Festival, Zao Wang Festival and Zao Festival. There are two main activities: sweeping the New Year and offering sacrifices to stoves. Due to local customs, festivals called off-year are different.

2. The most important folk activity in off-year is going to the kitchen, which is the king of people. Kitchen God is also called Kitchen God, and Han people call it Kitchen God. Legend has it that the Kitchen King turned out to be a rich boy named Zhang Dan. He once married a virtuous woman Guo Dingxiang, then divorced his wife and continued to marry Li Haitang.

Li was lazy by nature, and soon squandered the property of the Zhang family and remarried others. Zhang Dan's family was ruined, caught in a sea of fire and became a beggar. One day, he went to a family to beg, and the host gave him hot soup and rice. Later, he found that the person who delivered the meal was his abandoned wife Guo Dingxiang, and he was ashamed. Before coming into contact with the kitchen, he was named the king of the kitchen by Jiang Taigong.