How about the lunar calendar for Little New Year? Why do we eat stove candy during the Little New Year?

How about the lunar calendar for Little New Year? Why do we eat stove candy during the Little New Year?
Introduction: The arrival of Little New Year means the beginning of the new year. How is the Little New Year in 2018? It’s the end of the year before we know it. So what should we pay attention to at the end of the year? The Fortune Teller website will help you understand all the matters concerning the 2018 Chinese New Year and New Year’s Eve. The 23rd day of the 12th lunar month (lunar calendar)
February 8, 2018, Thursday, Aquarius (Gregorian calendar)
【Today’s lunar calendar is suitable】
Repairing graves, fasting and offering sacrifices, getting married, seeking betrothal gifts, breaking ground, taking up posts, erecting pillars and beams, planting, taking in livestock, digging wells, building houses, catching fish, and signing contracts. [Taboo in the old almanac today]
Opening the market, traveling, seeking wealth, building, offering sacrifices, praying for blessings, burial, moving coffins, breaking ground, burial, moving into a house, moving, separation, opening warehouses, receiving wealth
To sum up: The Little New Year in 2018 is not an auspicious day. The folk song "Twenty-three, sticky sugar melons" refers to the Kitchen God worship on the twenty-third or twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month every year. There is a saying that "officials worship on the twenty-third, ordinary people on the fourth, and boatmen on the fifth", which means that government officials worship on the twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month, ordinary people on the twenty-fourth day, and boatmen on the twenty-fifth day.
Stove sugar is a kind of malt sugar with great viscosity. When it is drawn into a long stick, it is called "Kanto sugar", and when it is drawn into a flat round shape, it is called "sugar melon". In winter, it is placed outside. Because of the cold weather, the sugar melon solidifies and there are tiny bubbles inside. It tastes crispy, sweet and crunchy, with a unique flavor.
During the Kitchen God worship, people would smear the Kitchen God's mouth with malt sugar in the hope of "saying good things from heaven". In ancient times, malt sugar was called gum candy, stove candy, or Guandong candy. After the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, the streets would sell sugar-coated melons, candied haws, sugar ingots, sesame candies, and Polygonum flowers made from malt sugar. Li E, a scholar in the Qing Dynasty, wrote a poem called "Gum Candy": Festival items are of great interest to people, and a dish of it will add to the remaining years. Polygonum flowers are used for embellishment, and powder cocoons are used to stick together.
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