When do we worship the Kitchen God during the Little New Year? What are the special things about Little New Year?
We all know that the Little New Year is also known as the Kitchen God Festival, and this day is to worship the Kitchen God. When do we worship the Kitchen God during the Little New Year? What are the special things about Little New Year? Want to know more about the twelfth lunar month of 2018? Please pay attention to Shuimoxiansheng.com’s special topic for the twelfth month of the lunar calendar!When do we worship the Kitchen God during the Little New Year?Offering sacrifices to the Kitchen God is a traditional custom that has a great influence and is widely spread among the Chinese people. In the old days, almost every kitchen had an altar for the Kitchen God. People call this god "Kitchen God Siming". Legend has it that he is the "Kitchen God Siming of the Nine Heavens East Kitchen" appointed by the Jade Emperor. He is in charge of managing the kitchen fires of each household and is worshipped as the patron saint of the family. The offerings for worshiping the Kitchen God are usually prepared on the night of the 22nd day of the twelfth lunar month: candies, water, beans, and hay. As soon as the midnight of the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month arrives, the Kitchen God worship ceremony begins. Because the Kitchen God will go to heaven on the twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month to report to the Emperor of Heaven everything that happened on earth in the past year.Why worship the Kitchen God?The Kitchen God was originally a god imagined because of the belief that all things have spirits and the worship and gratitude for the ancient people's invention of cooking with fire. The Book of Zhou states that "Zhuanxu had a son named Li, who was named Zhurong and was worshipped as the Kitchen God." In ancient times, the Kitchen God referred to the God of Fire Zhurong. Later, with the development of history, a personified Kitchen God appeared. The so-called "sending off the Kitchen God" means taking down the statue of the Kitchen God from the previous year and burning it, indicating that the Kitchen God has gone to "speak good things to heaven." On the surface, the custom of worshiping the kitchen god is a way for people to show their reverence for God, but in reality it is an expression of their gratitude to the ancestors who invented fire. People give the Kitchen God the responsibility of "Si Ming". Through the sacred sacrificial rituals of sending off and welcoming him, they educate the person in charge of the Kitchen God and his family not to be extravagant and wasteful, but to be thrifty and frugal, so as to achieve the purpose of promoting the fine traditional virtues of the nation.What are the special things about Little New Year?1. Eating sugar melons during worshipping the Kitchen God<br /> In the past, people would offer sugar melons to the Kitchen God during worshipping the Kitchen God. Sugar melons are a kind of sugar made from maltose, which is very sweet. It is also hoped that after eating it, the Kitchen God will have a sweeter mouth and will say more good things when reporting to the Jade Emperor. The candy melon finally fell into the child's mouth.2. Eating dumplings to send off the Kitchen God <br /> Dumplings are present in almost every festival in the north. Eating dumplings on the eve of the Chinese New Year means "sending off dumplings to the wind". In the north, it is customary to eat dumplings on the night of the Little New Year, which is meant to send off the Kitchen God. When offering sacrifices to the Kitchen God, the dumplings should be placed upright on the altar. 3. Eating fire cakes <br /> In Henan, on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, when people worship the kitchen god, most people make fire cakes by themselves, making dough and baking them on a stove. In Henan, if you can eat the homemade fire-burned snacks for offering sacrifice to the Kitchen God, you will get the protection of the Kitchen God and your family will be safe and sound in the coming year. The family is having a lively time, and it feels like the New Year's Eve. 4. Popcorn candy <br /> People in Jing'an County have a saying that "Little New Year, Little New Year, Popcorn candy is sweet." On the day of "Little New Year", people make popcorn candy with maltose and popcorn, which means great fortune and sweet life in the new year. 5. Sesame candy <br /> There is a saying in Northwest Shanxi: "Eat Sesame candy on the 23rd. If you can't have any, just chew your fingers." It is said that the Little New Year is the day when the Kitchen God goes to heaven. Eating sesame candy is to make the Kitchen God's mouth sticky with candy so that he cannot open it, and cannot report the delicious and luxurious scenes of the world to heaven, so as to avoid people who love to eat and drink being punished. |
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