Traditional Chinese New Year customs in Changle

Sacrifice to the stove on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month

On the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month, the Kitchen God will ascend to heaven to announce the new year When there is a special situation, people also put offerings to the Stove Lord and offer delicious food and drinks. This is the so-called sacrifice to the Stove Lord. When offering sacrifices to the Kitchen God, maltose and wine are indispensable. The wine is to make the Kitchen God drink up and become dizzy. Maltose is sweet and sticky, so if you put it on the Kitchen God’s mouth, it will be bad for the Kitchen God’s mouth to taste sweet. No matter how bad words you say, you can only say good things. Secondly, the maltose sticks to your mouth and you can't open your mouth to say bad things, so you can only speak vaguely.

The common people also used this set of human life experience of "taking advantage of others' short hands and eating their soft mouth" in worshiping the Kitchen God

Then they started killing chickens on the 28th and 9th. Duck, fold ingots, and steamed rice cakes

Starting in the afternoon of the 30th New Year's Eve, we first go to various temples to "bring out the New Year", various tributes, ingots, etc.

After that, we have the New Year's Eve dinner. Fish balls and meatballs are indispensable, and there must be a lack of fish. Rice is not made in a pressure cooker, but in a large wooden barrel, which is called cooking rice. Everyone must leave a little in the bowl when eating, and cannot finish it all. After that, the adults give the children lucky money, and after the meal they set off firecrackers, and then many people go to the temple to burn incense. It is said that the first incense stick on the first day of the new year has special meaning, so many people compete for the first incense stick.