The correct way to worship the kitchen god at ordinary times

The correct way to worship the kitchen god is as follows:

First, prepare fruits, wine and vegetables, and offer incense and candles. The time should be before 6 pm on the 23rd and 24th of the lunar calendar. Wine should be offered on the 23rd of the lunar calendar, but not on the 24th. Kitchen God is afraid of smelling of alcohol when reporting.

On the 23rd of the lunar calendar, fishy food can be the main food, and on the 24th, vegetarian food can be the main food. Talk to the kitchen god when offering food, and ask the kitchen god to go to his house and say something nice. Of course, if you rent a house, there is no need to worship the kitchen god, because there is no kitchen god in the rented house.

Special reminder is that if it is the 23rd day of the lunar calendar, don't tear off the old image of the Kitchen God, and then tear it off on the 24th or during the Spring Festival and replace it with a new one, because the Kitchen God won't leave home until around six o'clock in the evening on the 24th, riding a horse to heaven and reporting to the sky. If the 23rd is torn, Kitchen God has no place to stay. If there is, the chef can take off the old image and put on a new one.

The custom of offering sacrifices to the kitchen god:

Every year on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, the Kitchen God goes to heaven and reports the merits and demerits of the world. Therefore, Beiguan worships the kitchen god and sticks incense on the night of December 23rd in the lunar calendar, while Nanguan worships the kitchen god and sticks incense on the night of December 24th in the lunar calendar. In the old days, there were also gentry families offering stoves on the 23rd, and ordinary families offering stoves on the 24th.

Most people who sacrifice to the kitchen god use sugar ingots, fried rice candy, peanut candy, sesame candy and glutinous rice dumplings to stuff the mouth of the kitchen god, and don't talk about human sins. It is said that heaven speaks well and the next world is safe. After the sacrifice, the old paper horse, which has been worshipped for many years, will be taken out of the stove and burned together with the paper ingot to show that the kitchen god is in heaven.

On New Year's Eve, when you receive God, you will receive the ceremony of Kitchen God. After paying homage to Kitchen God, a new paper horse will be posted to Kitchen God. The etiquette of offering sacrifices to the stove may vary from place to place. In most areas, it is1February 24th, and in a few areas it is1February 23rd. There are also some sayings that the government and the people are four.

The place where the stove is sacrificed is near the stove. The kitchen stove has three supplies, such as caramel, green tea, fruit and gold paper. The stove in the kitchen is filled with maltose, so that human sin will not be said. The people who offered sacrifices said, "God has spoken well, and the lower world will be at peace.". After the sacrifice, the portrait of the old paper horse of the kitchen god, which has been enshrined for many years, will be taken off the stove and incinerated with gold paper.

In my opinion, the ritual of kitchen god's sacrifice is the most wonderful part of the legend and custom of kitchen god, because it fully embodies China's concept of ghosts and gods, and immortals can not only communicate and control, but even be teased.