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What are the immortals who worship in the New Year?

Kitchen God, God of Wealth, Door God.

Kitchen God Kitchen God, also known as Kitchen God, Kitchen God Star King and Kitchen God, is a fairy who is in charge of human fireworks and monitors good and evil. He usually lives in other people's homes and supervises his family's actions. On the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month, he went to heaven to meet the Jade Emperor and truthfully reported what he had seen and heard this year. Then we will decide whether to reward or punish the family according to the content of the report. Therefore, during the Lunar New Year, every household will paste a portrait of the kitchen god on the stove and provide him with food such as rice, noodles and fruits, so that the kitchen god can "speak well in the sky and be lucky to go home".

God of Wealth Everyone's concept of wealth is very simple, that is, they expect to turn money into treasure and earn a lot of money. Especially in this important festival-Spring Festival, he hopes that all kinds of immortals can help him, and he will be rich or expensive in the coming year. Therefore, the god of wealth is widely loved by the people. In many areas in the north and south, during the Spring Festival, there are various folk activities such as "sending the God of Wealth, offering sacrifices to the God of Wealth, and welcoming the God of Wealth". Of course, there are also many gods of wealth worships, and Zhao Gongming, Li Zhaizi and Fan Li are three very popular mass bases.

Speaking of the Spring Festival, except for almost every household, everyone should stick couplets to pray for protecting their homes and ensuring peace. There are many gatekeepers since ancient times, but almost all of them appear in pairs, such as Shen Tu and Lei Yu, two ancient gods, Sun Bin and Pang Juan, Zhao Yun and Ma Chao, He, Cheng and Luo Cheng, Yue Fei and Han Shizhong, but there are also two gates with only one person, that is, Zhong Kui, the nemesis of monsters.