What is the original name of the Kitchen God?

The Kitchen God, also known as the Kitchen God, is the lowest-ranking earthly immortal in myths and legends.

Folk legend has it that the Stove Lord was originally named Zhang Sheng. Before he became the Stove Lord, he was an ordinary citizen. Like most people, he married a wife and started a family. He spent all his money and became a beggar on the street. His wife also left him.

As a result, one day he ended up at his ex-wife’s house. When he saw his ex-wife, he was so ashamed that he dove under the stove and burned himself to death.

After Zhang Sheng died, the Jade Emperor felt ashamed when he saw him, indicating that he had the intention to repent and felt that this person was not bad to the end. Besides, he was from the same family (the Jade Emperor was also named Zhang), so I wanted to do some errand for him. Thinking that he died in the pot, I gave him the official position of Kitchen King Grandpa!

Speaking of the official position of Lord Zao, he was originally in charge of the preparation of human food. Later, he gradually began to monitor the sins of the human world and take charge of the fate of the family.

The Kitchen God will report the situation of each family to the Jade Emperor on the 23rd night of the twelfth lunar month every year. In order to let the Kitchen God say more good things about themselves in front of the Jade Emperor, people will make them on the day when the Kitchen God goes to heaven. Stove candy is an attempt to stick the mouth of the Stove Lord with sweet sugar, so December 23rd of the lunar calendar has become a traditional Chinese folk festival. People worship the Stove God, and people also call it Xiaonian.

What does the Kitchen God report to heaven?

You must know that the Kitchen God basically stays in the cooking area. In ancient times, most of the cooks were women in the family. Women liked to gossip, and the boss had parents in the west and the family in the west was short. What happened to someone's family?

The Stove Lord was hiding in the stove and listening. Not only did he listen, he also wrote down everything. Every year on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the Stove Lord would go to heaven to report to the Jade Emperor what so-and-so had done in the year. Which things?

The Jade Emperor will punish those who have done bad things accordingly based on the Stove Lord’s report. It is said that if you do a small bad thing, your life will be shortened by 100 days, and if you do a big bad thing, your life will be shortened by 300 days. The old man may be guarding the stove every day and watching the delicious food cooked in every household. He could only watch but not eat, and his mind was unbalanced, so he especially loved to tell stories.

So when reporting, people always pick up the bad things and talk about them. People have to think of various ways to offer food and drink to him, hoping that it will eat people's short mouths and say more good things. This is called offering sacrifices to the stove and giving him gifts. The Kitchen God goes to heaven.

So some places want to eat glutinous rice balls, hoping that the Stove Lord’s mouth will be as sweet as honey. In some places, the glutinous rice is not only sweet, but also tastes like wine. I hope that Prince Zhao will be drunk and forget about the bad things he wants to report.

More places eat Zao Tang, also called sesame candy and Guandong candy. I hope this candy, sweet and sticky, will stick to Prince Zhao's mouth, and he will stop talking, and he will not be able to report to the Jade Emperor.

Little New Year has different concepts and dates in various places. In most areas in the north, it falls on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, and in some areas it falls on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month. In Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, the 24th of the twelfth lunar month and the night before New Year's Eve are both called small new year.