Kitchen candy was originally for offering sacrifices to the kitchen stove. In addition to hoping that the kitchen god ate sweets, he could put in more kind words in front of the Jade Emperor.

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According to the traditional custom, every year, the kitchen god is sacrificed to eat candy. Kitchen candy belongs to a kind of maltose, which is a sweet food with sticky mouth and sticky teeth. As the old saying goes, "Twenty-three, the stove is sticky, and the master of the stove wants to go to heaven." It is said that the kitchen candy was originally for offering sacrifices to the kitchen stove, in addition to hoping that the kitchen god would eat sweets and be able to put in more kind words in front of the jade emperor. It is also said that it is to stick the mouth of Grandma Kitchen Jun, who is greedy for good deeds and loves to gossip.

The origin of stove candy

Legend has it that Lv Mengzheng, the prime minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, lived in a temple when he was a child. The elders in the temple were knowledgeable and had the unique skill of making sesame candy. Although Lu Meng is poor at home, he is intelligent, studious and highly valued by the elders. Therefore, the elders not only teach him to read and write poems and compose poems every day, but also often reward him with sesame candy for his mother and son to taste. On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month in 976, people were busy sending the kitchen god to heaven.

Lv Mengzheng saw that the people used food to worship the kitchen god, but he had nothing to worship the kitchen god, so he stuck sesame candy in the temple to the kitchen god's painting. When the Kitchen God returned to the Heavenly Palace, when the Emperor asked him, he wanted to talk but couldn't open his mouth, just nodded blindly. The Jade Emperor thought that the "God of Kitchen Fire" repeatedly praised Lv Mengzheng's character, so he issued a decree to bless him and gave him an official Lv Mengzheng. In the second year, Lv Mengzheng really ranked first among hundreds of candidates in the world, and won the top prize. Since then, every year on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, people have followed Lv Mengzheng's example of offering sesame candy to the "God of Kitchen Fire" and prayed for the Jade Emperor's blessing. In this way, it has been passed down from generation to generation.

Because kitchen candy is made of maltose, children should be extra careful when eating kitchen candy. Excessive consumption will damage children's teeth. If children have a cold or bronchitis, they should eat it in small quantities.

If you don't make it yourself, you must buy oven candy with outer packaging to prevent bacterial dust from entering the intestine and irritating the gastrointestinal mucosa.

In China, the Spring Festival usually begins with offering sacrifices to stoves. The folk song "Twenty-three, Sweet Melon Sticks" refers to the sacrificial stove on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month every year. There is a saying that "officials, three people, four boatmen and five", that is, the government holds the sacrificial stove on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the ordinary people hold it on the 24th, and house boat holds it on the 25th.