Twenty-three sugar melon sticky

Twenty-three, the sugar melons are sticky...

Manuscript source: Shijiazhuang News Network "Twenty-three, the sugar melons are sticky, the Kitchen God is going to heaven" is sung, this The flavor of the New Year is getting stronger and stronger, and a series of New Year celebration activities have begun. Today is the twenty-third of the twelfth lunar month. Let’s talk about this “twenty-three”. How to offer sacrifices to the stove on the twenty-third of the twelfth lunar month? This is well known. There is also a common saying in Shijiazhuang: Sugar melons are used to worship the stove, and the Spring Festival is here. The little girl wants flowers, the boy wants cannons, the old man wants a felt hat, and the old woman wants to have his feet bound. As soon as the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month arrives, the "year" begins. On this day, sacrifices are made to the stove. In the old days, every kitchen had a statue of the Kitchen God. The Stove Lord has a fair complexion, kind eyebrows and kind eyes, and a long beard with five locks hanging down on his chest. Next to her is the Kitchen God's grandmother, who looks smiling. The couplet on both sides of the statue is: God says good things, return to the palace to ensure peace. According to folklore, the Kitchen God was originally a star in the sky. Because of his mistakes, he was demoted to the human world by the Jade Emperor and became the "Eastern Chef". It sits in the middle of the kitchens of each household, watching how people live and behave, and records in detail all the good and bad things. On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, it returns to heaven and reports the good and evil of each household to the Jade Emperor. In this case, he will return to the human world on the 30th night of the twelfth lunar month to punish evil and promote good according to the Jade Emperor's will. Therefore, on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, people have to offer sacrifices to the Stove God, and offer sticky and sweet sugar melons to the Stove God, so that they can stick to the Stove God's mouth and let him "go to heaven to say good things and return to the palace to ensure peace." At the beginning of the sacrifice to the stove, three sticks of incense are lit in the incense burner under the statue of the Stove Lord, and stove cakes, sesame candy, sugar melons, two bowls of white water, and two bowls of sorghum are offered. The cakes are for the Kitchen God and his grandmother, and the sorghum and white water are for the Kitchen God's horses. After the horse had eaten and drank enough, it carried the Kitchen God and his grandmother to heaven and reported to the Jade Emperor. At this time, the statue of the Stove Lord must be "invited" from its throne and placed in front of the stove pit. The whole family will kneel down, light incense paper and burn it together, and at the same time pray: "Stove Lord, Stove Lord Grandma, Eat well, drink well, and go to heaven today. When you reach heaven, say more good things and less bad words. Be tolerant of any mistakes you make, and forgive your mistakes. I will burn more incense for you in the coming year. May our family be safe and sound." Then he set off firecrackers to see off the Stove Lord and said "Heaven." Everyone kowtows, rejoices and eats candied melons. On New Year's Eve, the Kitchen God was invited to the throne of God again. On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, sugar melons are sacrificed to the stove in a lively, grand and humorous manner, so this day is also called "Celebrating the Small New Year". Let’s talk about Tang Guaer ■ Zhang Xinguo No matter how hot the hype is with the advertisements for imported toffee, no matter how fancy the assorted chocolates are, the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month is approaching when the Kitchen King goes to heaven, in the country fairs along the Hutuo coast, and even in the provincial capital. In street stores, there is always a kind of local candy that exposes its original simplicity, attracts the eye, and makes people salivate - this is Tangguaer. There is no distinction between north and south. Although the offerings to the stove are all sticky and sweet candies, they have different colors, flavors and shapes. The glutinous rice gummy candy from Jiangsu and Zhejiang is square in shape and pure yellow in color; the sorghum candy from Qilu is long and strip-shaped, black and red inside. Sugar melons are unique only in the ancient Zhili area. They may be as big as a Lantern Festival or as small as a ginkgo. Not only are their colors like mutton-fat white jade, but they are also unique in their hollowness and exquisite in their unique "melon" shape: some are round, It looks like the rudimentary shape of a watermelon; or the grains are oval, like a delicate cantaloupe; the fine vertical lines on the surface are clear, more like the beautiful striped spots on the melon skin, which is ingenious. Tang Guaer is processed from maltose and originates from the former Zhengding Prefecture. It is a dessert made by villagers using techniques inherited from their own fields for thousands of years. The barley grown here is rich in grains and is as plump as pearls. It not only makes the rice delicious, but also makes sugar sweet to the teeth. The barley is sprouted and fermented in a vat to become sugar syrup. The sugar syrup is stretched and kneaded, cut into shapes, and dried to become sugar melon. This sugar melon is crispy when you first bite it, and it falls apart; when you chew it, it becomes sticky and sticky, so sticky that you can't open your mouth. That’s why the nickname is “Old Man Le”: He enjoys the fact that even if his teeth fall out, he can chew them into pieces, and he enjoys even more the fact that his teeth become sticky and he has to open and close his jaw vigorously, like laughing. Every family has sufferings, but they are overcome by sugar melons. The quarrels between children knocking pots and bowls are always seen by Siming Tianjun one by one, so he must stick to his heart with sugar melons. Respect your mouth and ask him to either use his sweet mouth and sweet tongue to pray for the world when reporting his duties to heaven; or let him talk so much that he can't speak and stop talking nonsense.

The Stove Lord enjoys sugar melons every year. Although he has been fooled many times and his mouth is stuck with his fickle mouth, he still feels itchy after recalling the strange beauty of crispy and sweet. He is always thinking about this bite on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. . The slight bitterness makes the sugar melon mellow and sweet, just like the days of farmers, the bitterness contains sweetness. Twenty-three, the sugar melon is sticky. In fact, this sugar melon not only sweetens the chatty mouth of the Lord Sticking the Stove, but also sweetens the hearts of his family members. Sharing the sweetness of the sugar melon with the whole family makes this day sweet enough. The "Past and Present Life" of the Kitchen Lord ■Wu Zhengzhi The so-called offering sacrifices to the Kitchen means offering sacrifices to the "Kitchen Lord". The Kitchen God is written as the "Kitchen God" in ancient Chinese literature, and is commonly known as the "Kitchen Lord". It is said that the Kitchen God is a god who can "speak good things from heaven and send good luck to the lower world". Looking at it today, this is obviously a very ridiculous superstition. But if we look at it literally, the Kitchen God should be the god who invented and was in charge of human cooking stoves. But strangely enough, the written records and folklore of the past dynasties show that the worship of the Kitchen God has nothing to do with its literal meaning, and there is far more than one image of the Kitchen God. The custom of offering sacrifices to stoves has been around since the Zhou Dynasty in China. One of the seven kinds of sacrifices in the Zhou Dynasty was the "Zao" sacrifice. Xu Shen of the Eastern Han Dynasty said in "Five Classics Yiyi" that Zhurong, the god of fire, was the kitchen god worshiped by people. The invention of the stove is closely related to the use of fire. The invention of fire brought mankind from the barbaric age of eating hair and drinking blood into the civilized age of cooked food. The invention of the stove brought mankind from cooking food directly over fire to a new stage of cooking with stoves. The "stove" has also become a cooking utensil that people can't live without every day. The habit of gathering around the stove for meals has made the stove a symbol of a certain group and promoted people's worship of the stove. The old saying that "the stove prince is the head of the family" seems to have its origin here. From this point of view, the statement that Zhurong, the God of Fire, is the Kitchen God is quite similar to its literal meaning. The book "Sou Shen Ji" of the Jin Dynasty said that during the reign of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, Yin Zifang often made the Kitchen God appear in the morning because he was cooking on the twelfth lunar month. Yin Zifang used yellow sheep to worship the Stove during the celebrations. From then on, his "family was violent." rich". Later, people followed Yin Zifang's example and used yellow sheep to worship the stove during the twelfth lunar month. Many people experienced good luck and good luck. The Kitchen God is described here as a god who can make people rich. According to folklore in some places in Hebei, the Kitchen God is a gluttonous state official. Every household must treat him, his wife, family members, and even chickens and dogs to a fine banquet for a day, otherwise the house will be ransacked and destroyed. For a whole year, he ate white and fat, and the people suffered from the food. Later, they were deceived into the house by a strong man with a "big slap" and slapped them against the wall next to the stove, making them stare at each household making good food and eating good food. In Shandong legend, the Kitchen God is an ungrateful wealthy businessman. After he became a wealthy businessman, he divorced his wife Ding Xiang, who had endured all kinds of hardships to support his parents, and married the prostitute Haitang. Later, his home was burned down and he had to beg for food. One day, when he went to his ex-wife Ding Xiang's house, he repeatedly called "Auntie" to beg for food. When he recognized that this lady was his divorced ex-wife Ding Xiang, he was so ashamed that he dove into the pot and suffocated to death. It is said that the Jade Emperor named him Kitchen King only because he had the same surname. And because the day of his death was the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, that day was designated as the "Kitchen King's Day". In the folklore of Henan, the Stove Lord is another poor young man who was born as a stove cook. Legend has it that the Jade Emperor's little daughter fell in love with this poor young man. When the Jade Emperor learned about it, he was very angry and sent the little daughter down to earth to suffer the consequences of the poor young man. The Queen Mother loved her daughter very much and interceded with her, so the Jade Emperor reluctantly granted the poor young man the position of Stove King. From then on, people called the poor young man the Kitchen God, and the Jade Emperor's daughter naturally became the Kitchen God's grandmother. Grandma Kitchen King was well aware of the sufferings of the people, and often brought food and drink to the people from the sky in the name of visiting her parents' home. When the Jade Emperor noticed this, he was furious and only allowed them to go back once a year at the end of the year. On the twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month, after the Kitchen King’s grandmother went to heaven, she skillfully dealt with the Jade Emperor and brought back dried stoves, tofu, meat, chicken, etc. to the people to eat. In order to commemorate the kindness of Grandma Kitchen King, people cook the stove dry on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month every year, make tofu on the 25th day, cut the meat on the 26th day, kill the stove chicken on the 27th day, make dough and steam the steamed buns on the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month. When I was nine, I went to get a drink, and when I was thirty, I was making dumplings. It can be seen that on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the sacrifice here is not the Kitchen God, but the Kitchen God’s grandmother. There are also some legends about the Kitchen God. In short, there are different opinions about the Kitchen God in different dynasties and different regions. This situation not only shows that there is no such thing as the Kitchen God, but also shows that the description of the Kitchen God has different wishes from different eras.