1. It is said that Kitchen God is the supervisor sent by the Jade Emperor to every household. On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, he will ascend to heaven to report the good and evil of this family to the Jade Emperor in heaven. Upon hearing this, the Jade Emperor gave the family the good or ill luck they deserved in the new year to the Kitchen God, so on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, people should "offer sacrifices to the kitchen stove", and when offering sacrifices to the kitchen stove, most of them are honeydew melons, while in the north of Shanxi, it is customary to use candied fruit (candied fruit is a primary product, especially sticky). Foods like sugar and jelly are sweet and sticky. It means that the kitchen god sticks sugar and jelly in his mouth after eating it, which makes the kitchen god's mouth sweet, and speaks well to the jade emperor, but does not speak ill of the jade emperor, so as not to cause trouble. When offering sacrifices to the stove, in addition to offering incense and wine, it is especially necessary to sprinkle horse material for the mount of the kitchen god, from the front of the stove to the outside of the stove. After these ceremonies, the Kitchen God will be taken down and burned.

The moral of this traditional custom is to summarize the work of God and his family in the past year by offering sacrifices to the Kitchen God. Esau dusted off the old dust, cleaned up the old dust and welcomed the new dust. Welcome the happiness of the New Year with auspiciousness and food culture.