Cizao is an ancient and vibrant ceramic firing town, named after the continuous firing of ceramics 1500 years since the late Southern Dynasty. Porcelain furnace construction industry originated in the first year of Taishi, Emperor Wu of the Western Jin Dynasty, and has been widely spread around the world in the Song Dynasty, with a history of more than 65,438+0,700 years. It is one of the cradles of China ceramics. Cizao people inherited the pottery-making skills left by their ancestors, once again lit the fire of burning pottery, specializing in the production of building ceramics, and the ceramic building materials industry has developed by leaps and bounds.
Sacrificing stoves is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation, also known as Xiaonian Festival, Xiejie Festival and Kitchen God Festival. Zheng Xuan commented on the Book of Rites, saying, "The kitchen ruler lives in the world, so let him know when he makes a small inspection." This shows that at least in the Han Dynasty, the custom of offering sacrifices to stoves has spread in the Central Plains of China.
The custom of offering sacrifices to stoves
As the most important traditional festival in China culture, the Spring Festival is extremely special for everyone in China. Therefore, it can be seen from people's practice of calling the day of offering sacrifices to stoves off-year that this matter is of special significance to the ancients.
When the ancients offered sacrifices to the kitchen stove, they needed to prepare some special sacrifices for the kitchen god. In addition to the common dining table, they also need to put special kitchen candy, as well as water, cooking beans and grass. Among them, the table and kitchen candy are for the kitchen god, and the last three are for the horse that the kitchen god rode when he went to heaven.
The stove candy here is a kind of candy made of sesame and maltose. The shape of this candy will be slightly different in different areas. What they have in common is that although this kind of candy is sweet after eating, it will become sticky after chewing.
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