Cultural connotation of the festival of offering sacrifices to stoves.
Kitchen Festival is a traditional festival of Han nationality in China. Nowadays, people also call it off-year, Xie Festival, Kitchen God Festival, and offering sacrifices to stoves. Chinese folk beliefs are commonly known as sending gods to Ryukyu, which is called imperial wish solution. In different places, different dates are generally around the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month. Off-year is considered as the beginning of the New Year in China. It is said that at the end of each year, Kitchen God, Tai Sui God and folk gods will report back to the Jade Emperor, especially Kitchen God will tell the Jade Emperor about the good and evil on earth as a basis for rewarding and punishing mankind, so most people will worship the gods and Kitchen God at home at this time, hoping that they can say something nice about the world.
Ancient poems describing the festival of offering sacrifices to stoves
Lv Mengzheng's Poems of Sacrificing the Kitchen Stove
A bowl of clear soup poems, the chef is in the sky today;
If the jade emperor asks about human affairs, articles in troubled times are worthless.
Ci of offering sacrifices to the stove Song Author: Fan Chengda
On the 24th of the twelfth lunar month in the ancient Fuxi, the kitchen owner spoke to the sky.
Clouds, cars and horses linger, and there are cups and plates at home.
When a man asks his daughter to avoid it, he drinks and burns money.
You can't smell the struggle of servants, and you are not angry about the horns of cats and dogs;
Send you drunk, and you will never return to the clouds.
Seek profit and return points.
It's time to offer sacrifices to the stove.
The time to worship the kitchen god is the night of the twelfth lunar month. Kitchen Festival has a long history in China folk custom, and it is a traditional festival of Han nationality, also known as Xiaonian Festival, Xiejie Festival and Kitchen God Festival. In Chinese folk beliefs, the tradition of offering sacrifices to the stove is commonly known as offering sacrifices to the gods, and in Ryukyu it is called relieving the emperor's wishes. Fireworks will be set off in the evening on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. It is said that at the end of each year, kitchen gods, traditional gods and folk gods will report back to the Jade Emperor. In particular, the Kitchen God will tell the Jade Emperor the good and evil of the world as the basis for rewarding and punishing mankind, so people worship the gods and the Kitchen God at this time.