Kitchen God, also known as Kitchen King, is the god in charge of food in ancient myths and legends. Food is the most important thing for people. At that time, people sacrificed to the kitchen god to thank and celebrate his merits. About the Western Han Dynasty, the priesthood of Kitchen God gradually changed into mastering the fortune of a person's life, and it was a complete and universal superstition. According to Records of the Historian, an alchemist named Li in the Western Han Dynasty once claimed that the stove could make an alchemist live longer. By the end of the Han dynasty, this concept was more widely circulated. Zheng Xuan noticed that the "stove" in the Five Sacrifices was "the human world where the little gods lived, inspecting the little gods and reprimanding them." According to the biography of Yin Xing in the later Han Dynasty, as soon as Yin Zi saw the Kitchen God, he immediately offered a sacrifice to the Antelope Temple. As a result, she became a very rich person. In the Jin Dynasty, the Kitchen God carried out the command authority, evolved into a god who observed human evils, and became the eyes and ears directly placed by the Emperor of Heaven in every household. Ge Hong of the Jin Dynasty quoted Shu Wei of the Eastern Han Dynasty as saying: "On a dark night, Kitchen God sent a white man to heaven to sue him. Those who commit the most crimes will lose discipline (300 days' life), and those who commit the least crimes will lose their lives (3 days' life). Due to the integration of the kitchen god and the life god, there is a folk saying that the kitchen god is sacrificed to protect the prosperity of future generations. "The True Sutra of Kitchen Palace" has such words as "Bao Shou keeps you 90 years old, Bao Zi keeps you having a baby".

Kitchen God was originally a family god and was worshipped by people all the year round. Generally, it is only on the first and fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and no arrangement is needed. However, every year on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, a sacrificial ceremony is held, which is called "sending a stove". The custom of offering sacrifices to stoves on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month in Henan Province is accompanied by a bleak folklore: In ancient times, an old couple had only one son, and they regarded his son as the apple of their eye and loved him very much. However, because the family was poor, they couldn't walk to the mouth of the lake, so they had to bite the bullet and let their son dig coal in the coal mine. My son hasn't come back for a long time, and the old man misses him more and more. On this day, the old woman told the old man to visit the coal mine. On the way, the old man met a barefoot fellow traveler, and the two became more and more familiar and got along well. During the chat, the old man learned that barefoot film was instructed by Yan Wang to come to the mine to recover 100 miners. The old man was in a hurry and begged his son to stay barefoot. Barefoot generously agreed and told him not to tell anyone. Seeing his son, the old man pretended to be ill, and his son was waiting around and unable to go down the well. Soon, something happened in the coal mine, and the old man hurried home with his son. Three years passed in a blink of an eye. On the night of the twelfth lunar month, the old man remembered the risks of that year and couldn't help telling his wife. Who knows, this statement was heard by Chef Jun. On the evening of 23rd, Chef Jun went to heaven and told the Jade Emperor about it. The Jade Emperor became angry from embarrassment, and immediately punished the barefoot piece and took away the old man's son. Because of this, on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, people respect Zhao Jun for eating sweets, hoping that he will stop gossiping when he arrives in the Heavenly Palace. Over time, people sacrifice stoves on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the first round of firecrackers was set off in urban and rural areas of the Central Plains. City residents are busy buying sesame candy, fire and other food for offering sacrifices to stoves. In the vast rural areas, preparations and grand ceremonies for offering sacrifices to stoves gradually began in the deafening sound of guns.