After off-year is off-year, how much do you know about off-year customs?

Sacrificing a stove is an important activity on the day of off-year In addition to providing candied melon cakes, the portrait of Kitchen God needs to be replaced. When the old portrait of Kitchen God is torn down, every household should "please" come back with a new one. According to folklore, the Kitchen God will report the good and evil of this family to the Jade Emperor every year, so that the Jade Emperor can reward and punish him.

Due to different customs and habits, the dates of offering sacrifices to stoves vary from place to place. There are existing written records. In the Southern Dynasties, the day of offering sacrifices to stoves in some areas was the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, which coincided with Laba Festival. For example, in the Chronicle of Jingchu Period, it is recorded that "dolphin wine is sacrificed to the kitchen god every day".

Step 2 eat stove candy

As the saying goes, "Twenty-three, honeydew melon sticks". When I was young, people would buy candied melons, candied Kwangtung, sesame candy and other sacrifices to pray that the kitchen god would be sweeter and say good things from heaven.