Why will you eat sesame candy in the next year?

Eating sesame candy on the festival of sacrifice is to make everyone's mouth not say unlucky words and stick sugar on the mouth of the kitchen god without opening it.

According to legend, during the Song Dynasty, Lv Mengzheng, the prime minister, was born in a poor family and lived with his mother in the northeast of Zhang Defu in Yonghe County, which is now the "Hongyuan Temple" in the middle of Caoma Village in Anyang. The elders in the temple are all classics. He has a unique skill in making flavored snacks. He used yellow rice, wheat and sesame as raw materials to make sweet and crisp sesame candy.

Lv Mengzheng comes from a poor family, but he is smart and studious, so he is highly valued by his elders. The elders not only teach him to read, write poems and write poems every day, but also often reward him with some sesame candy for his mother and son to taste. On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month in 976, people were busy sending Master Jujube to heaven. When Lv Mengzheng came back begging, his mother said to him, "Son, the owner of the kitchen has been starving with us all the year round. What can I give him to eat when he goes to heaven? " ?

The origin of eating sesame candy in the coming year

Lv Mengzheng suddenly remembered the sesame candy that the elder gave his NianLia a few days ago, and quickly handed it to Mr. Kitchen. When the chef saw this sweet and crisp sesame candy, he greedily ate it and accidentally touched his mouth. Back in the Heavenly Palace, when the emperor asked him, he wanted to speak but didn't speak, just nodded blindly. The emperor thought that the Kitchen God praised Lv Mengzheng's character again and again, so he issued a decree to bless him and gave him an official position in Lv Mengzheng.

The following year, Lv Mengzheng really ranked first among the hundred candidates in the world and won the first prize. In return for the education and help of his elders, he expanded the temple, and allocated 500 liang of yellow rice, 500 liang of wheat and 100 liang of sesame seeds, so that the elders could widely teach the sesame candy making skills as the basis for the local people to make a living. For a time, sesame sugar workshops were all over the village. On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, people will follow Lv Mengzheng's example and offer sesame candy to the Kitchen God, praying for the emperor's blessing. This kind of attack has been handed down from generation to generation.