Once upon a time, there was an emperor who was so greedy that he would try whatever he had never eaten before.

The Story of Xiaonian

Once upon a time, there was an emperor who was so greedy that he would try whatever he had never eaten before.

On this day, he wandered into the village and met a beautiful girl. The girl is carrying a basket. "What are you pretending to be?" the emperor asked curiously.

The girl opened the basket, wow, what a big jujube cake!

The emperor has eaten many good things, but he has never eaten jujube cake. He said to the girl: "Give me something to eat, I am the emperor!"

The girl smiled slightly and handed the basket over.

The emperor devoured the jujube cake in three or five mouthfuls. After eating, he burped: "Ah, uh, it's so delicious!"

Then, the emperor had a bad idea: "I will take this girl back to the palace and let her cook for me every day." Eat the jujube cake!"

He said to the girl: "If you can't make another seventy-seven forty-nine pieces of jujube cake, I will take you away."

< p> After hearing this, the girl said calmly: "Okay!"

She took off the gold hairpin on her head and stroked it against the basket. Huh? Steaming hot, no more, no less, exactly 7749 pieces of jujube cake. So amazing!

The emperor has not yet understood. Seeing that he couldn't help the girl, he pretended to let her feed him. The girl turned her face and ignored him!

The emperor was angry and insisted on taking the girl away. He stretched out his hand and grabbed it...

The girl stretched out her hand and slapped the emperor onto the stove. The emperor was immediately pressed against the wall.

This is bad: the emperor wanted to come down, but he couldn't. This day happens to be the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month.

"Who makes you greedy! This time, you stand while others sit, and you watch others eat!" After saying that, the girl flew up to the sky on the colorful clouds. The gluttonous emperor became the Kitchen God from then on.

From then on, the Kitchen God stood by the stove every day and watched people eating.

As time went by, people felt that the Kitchen God was pitiful - after all, there is nothing wrong with loving good food. So, every year on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, everyone would serve delicious food to the Stove Lord, which was called "sacrifice to the Stove".

On this day, the children are the happiest. They eat date cakes, persimmons, walnuts, sugar cakes, and sugar melons with the Kitchen God. It is said that after the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, the Kitchen God will go to heaven to tell the Jade Emperor what has happened in the world this year. His mouth felt sweet after eating sugar melons. When he met the Jade Emperor, he only spoke good things about people.