The correct way to worship the kitchen god

The correct way to offer sacrifices to the kitchen god is as follows:

First, prepare sacrifices to fruits, wine and vegetables. When offering, light incense and candles. The time should be chosen to offer sacrifices to the kitchen god on the 23rd day of the lunar calendar and before 6 o'clock in the evening of the 24th. The kitchen god is afraid that he will be full of alcohol when reporting.

On the 23rd day of the lunar calendar, fishy food can be given priority to, and vegetarian food can be given priority to on the 24th day. When offering, talk to the kitchen god, and ask him to go to his home and say more nice things. Of course, if he rents a house, there is no need to offer it to the kitchen god, because there is no kitchen god in the rented house.

Special reminder is, if it's the 23rd day of the lunar calendar, don't tear down the old image of the Kitchen God, and wait until the 24th or around the Spring Festival to tear it down and replace it with a new one, because the Kitchen God won't leave home until around 6 pm on the 24th, riding to heaven and reporting to heaven. If it's torn down on the 23rd, the Kitchen God will have no place to stay. If it's available, the Kitchen God can take down the old image and put on a new one.

custom of offering sacrifices to the kitchen god:

every year on the 24th day of the 12th lunar month, the kitchen god goes to heaven to report the merits and demerits of the world. Therefore, it is customary in the north to offer sacrifices to the kitchen god and burn incense on the 23rd night of the 23rd lunar month, while in the south, it is customary to offer sacrifices to the kitchen god and burn incense on the 24th night of the 24th lunar month. In the old days, there were also gentry families offering stoves on the 23rd and people's homes offering them on the 24th.

Many kinds of candied gold ingots, fried rice candies, peanut candies, sesame candies and glutinous rice dumplings are used to worship the Kitchen God, so as to stop the mouth of the Kitchen God, not to talk about human evils, and the world says that heaven speaks good things, and the lower bound is safe. After the sacrifice, the old paper horse that has been worshipped for many years will be removed from the stove and incinerated together with paper ingots to show that the Kitchen God is in heaven.

On New Year's Eve, the kitchen god is given a gift, and after the kitchen god is worshipped, a new paper horse of the kitchen god is pasted on the kitchen stove. The etiquette of the kitchen stove worship may vary from place to place. The time for the kitchen stove worship is December 24th in most areas, and December 23rd in a few areas. It is also said that the officials have three people and four people.

The place of offering sacrifices to the kitchen stove is the kitchen stove. There are three offerings to the kitchen stove, such as caramel, green tea, fruit, gold paper and so on. The kitchen stove is stuffed with maltose, so that it doesn't talk about human evils. The population of the sacrifice is called "God speaks good things", and the lower bound is safe. After the sacrifice, the old paper horse portrait of the kitchen god who has been offering sacrifices for years will be removed from the stove, together with the gold paper.

In my opinion, the etiquette of offering sacrifices to a kitchen stove is the most wonderful part of the legend of the kitchen god and the custom of offering sacrifices, because it fully embodies the concept of supernatural beings in China, and immortals can not only communicate and control, but even be teased.