You can pick up the kitchen god after finishing your meal on the 3th of the twelfth lunar month, and then you can pick up the kitchen god after cleaning the kitchen.
The kitchen god, whose full title is "the kitchen god who commands the nine spirits of the East Chef", is commonly known as "the kitchen god", or "the kitchen god", "the kitchen god who commands the nine spirits of the East Chef", "the god who protects the house" or "the kitchen king". In the north, he is called "the kitchen god", and Luan Men Zun is regarded as one of the three benefactors.
You can pick up the Kitchen God after finishing your meal on the 3th of the twelfth lunar month, and then you can pick up the Kitchen God after cleaning the kitchen.
The basic ceremony is to post the newly bought statue of Kitchen God in the shrine, and post it on the wall behind the kitchen table if there is no shrine. Put couplets on both sides, and the contents of the couplets are generally "playing things in the world and bringing spring to the sky" and "a family is in charge of life, and it is blessed for thousands of years". Then offer offerings, burn incense, burn watches and kowtow. At the same time, you should say something auspicious to welcome the Kitchen God back, and of course send him to the Jade Emperor. After the fifth watch, you can burn a whip and light a gun to celebrate the arrival of the New Year. In this way, the new Kitchen God began a new one-year term.
the fourth day of lunar new year's day is also the day to meet the kitchen god.
According to the folk saying, on the fourth day of the first month, the Kitchen God should check the household registration, so every household should stay at home, prepare rich fruits, burn incense, light candles and set off firecrackers as a welcome. On this day, the whole family is still eating folding baskets together. The so-called folding baskets are a hodgepodge of leftovers from a few days. There are some rural customs in the north, which tie Vulcan, help with corn stalks or wheat stalks on sticks, and send them to the river from their own homes after lighting, which means that there is no fire at home for one year.
Some places also have their own days to greet the Kitchen God, such as Jiangsu and Zhejiang. On the third day of New Year's Eve, a "well opening" ceremony is needed on the third day. On the second day of the first grade, let the well rope that has been tired for a year rest, and seal the wellhead with red paper, so that everyone can't take well water. A special ceremony will be held on the third day to remove the seal.
in Fengxiang county, Baoji, Shaanxi province, you can't go out on the third day of the New Year's Eve, because every household has to hold a very grand ceremony to welcome the kitchen god with five-color paper-cuts. On the second day of the Lunar New Year's Day, people visit relatives and friends, but on the third day of the Lunar New Year's Day, every household will do the same thing at home, that is, paper cutting. Paper-cutting is to meet the kitchen god, so everyone should dye paper-cutting into five colors when cutting paper, which is five-color paper-cutting. After the paper-cut is cut, we will go to stick grilles next. stick grilles is particular about it, that is, it should be posted on the window of 6636 grids, symbolizing the great harmony of 666. But the four corners of the window should be pasted with red, which symbolizes the prosperity all the year round.