When is the zaos festival?

The twenty-fourth day of the Lunar New Year. Zaos worship has a history of thousands of years in Chinese folklore, and the belief in the God of the Zaos is a reflection of the Chinese people's pursuit of the dream of having more food and clothing. Folk traditionally sacrifices stove day is the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, most of the southern region, still maintains the old tradition of the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month to celebrate the small New Year. From the mid to late Qing Dynasty, the imperial family held a ceremony on the twenty-third day of the lunar month, in order to "save money", by the way, the Zao Wang Wang also worshiped, so the northern region more in the twenty-third day of the lunar month to celebrate the Lunar New Year.