Kitchen God is the most common god in traditional folk beliefs in China, and almost all ethnic groups worship it. According to records, the custom of offering sacrifices to stoves was popular in the pre-Qin period. China is the god in charge of diet in ancient mythology. In the old days, people had a wide belief in the kitchen god, and the statue of the kitchen god was enshrined on the stove.

Every year on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, the Kitchen God reports the merits and demerits to the world, which will determine people's fate. Therefore, the north is used to offering sacrifices and burning incense to the Kitchen God on the 23rd night of the twelfth lunar month. The custom in the south is to offer sacrifices to the kitchen owner and burn incense on the evening of the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month. In the old days, there was also a difference between the gentry's family sending stoves on the 23rd and the common people's family sending stoves on the 24th.

Extended information Kitchen God Township is commonly known as Zaogong, also known as Shunmian Gong, which is estimated to be the homonym of "Siming Gong". The worship of Kitchen God should come from discovering and using fire to drive away animals and cook food. But it should be called the kitchen god after the family is formed, or when the stove is ready to cook.

Books in past dynasties have different opinions about who the Kitchen God is, or they think it is Yan Di, Huangdi, Zhu Rong and Song Wuji. After the appearance of Taoism, Kitchen God became the God sent by the Jade Emperor to inspect people's feelings, which was generally accepted by the people.

The worship of kitchen god is the most popular, which is everywhere in the north and south of the Yangtze River, and the customs are relatively unified. For example, I believe that Kitchen God will go to heaven on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, and will burn paper horses for water and sugar to make him speak well.

China is a country with many gods. Among the many gods believed by people in ancient China, Kitchen God has the highest status among the people in China. There is a folk proverb "three sacrifices to the stove, four sweeps the house ...", which means offering sacrifices to the stove god on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. Kitchen God, commonly known as Kitchen God, Kitchen God and Kitchen God, is a kind of deity worship developed from primitive fire worship.

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