The offerings used in the sacrificial furnace are different, but they are all sweet and sticky, such as maltose, jujube, persimmon, glutinous rice cake and jujube cake. Some said that Kitchen God was sweetened, and some said that he pouted and told him not to speak ill of Kitchen God. On the festival of offering sacrifices to stoves, China people pay attention to eating jiaozi, which means to send away the windward side of jiaozi. Eat more cakes and buckwheat noodles in mountainous areas. In the southeast of Shanxi, the custom of eating fried corn is popular. There are twenty-three folk sayings, that is, don't eat fried food, and on the first day of the New Year's Day, a pot will be poured.

Kitchen God is also called Kitchen God and Kitchen God. Kitchen God is in charge of life, and Kitchen God is a star king. In the past, almost every kitchen had a "kitchen god", which was called "kitchen god in charge of life". It is said that he was named as the "Chief Chef of Nine Days East Chef" by the Jade Emperor, who was responsible for managing the stoves of various families, so he was worshipped.

The legend of the kitchen god

The earliest kitchen gods came from different backgrounds. Some people say that Kitchen God is Emperor Yan. Liu An, the king of Huainan, said in "On the Training of Huainan Gigi Lai": "Emperor Yan made a fire and died as a stove." Some people say that the Kitchen God is Zhu Rong. Zhu Rong, the son of Zhuan Xu, one of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, is a Vulcan. Others say that Kitchen God is the Yellow Emperor. This statement is actually dismantling the word "stove". There are fire and earth, Yan Di and Zhu Rong represent fire, while the Yellow Emperor represents earth.

Later, there was a new version about who the Kitchen God was. It is said that there is a man named Zhang Wancang with a well-off family. He married a good wife, Guo Dingxiang, but fell in love with a fireworks woman, Wang Haitang. Zhang Wancang thought hard, abandoned his wife Guo Dingxiang and married Wang Haishang on the pretext of infertility. Guo Dingxiang failed to commit suicide and was saved by a woodcutter. They got married and had children. Because the party was idle all day, Zhang Wancang's family was ruined and had to beg along the street.

One day, he begged to his ex-wife's door. Seeing his ex-wife, Guo Dingxiang had mixed feelings, but she was kind-hearted, so she cooked a bowl of Longxu Noodles for Zhang Wancang, and by the way, she put a hair in it, which meant to tie a knot and a bowl of noodle soup. Zhang Wancang was so ashamed that he bumped into the kitchen door and died. Later generations felt that he still had a sense of shame and died in the kitchen, so he was asked to guard the kitchen door and be responsible for eating and drinking. Later, it evolved into an inscrutable kitchen god.

In the Qing Dynasty, a new kitchen god, Zhao Zilong, appeared. Why do you think Zhao Zilong is the kitchen god? Because Zhao Zilong is a soldier marching to fight, and a soldier named Zhao Can is naturally referred to as Zhao. How close is Zhao Jun to the Kitchen God? Naturally, it is the Kitchen King. Poor ever-victorious general became a kitchen god because of his surname Zhao.