1, stove sugar

Boiled sugar is the most common sacrifice in folk sacrifices. There are two main methods: one is maltose, the other is glutinous rice flour and caramel. In many places, the stove sugar is made into a hollow pumpkin shape, so it is also called "sugar melon". Old Beijingers call stove candy "Guandong Sugar", saying that its practice comes from kanto region. Jiangsu has a developed business, and it is customary to make stove sugar into ingots, which are called "sugar ingots". In addition, there are some cooking candies made into chickens, ducklings or gourds and water chestnuts in various shapes.

2, sugar cake

In addition to stove candy, many places will also prepare candy cakes for the kitchen god. According to different places, it can be divided into two categories: flour cakes and rice cakes, which should be related to different products. For example, in Tongguan, Shaanxi, there is a kind of sugar powder cake called "Zaohuotun", which is a necessary offering for local stoves. In some places in Guangdong, rice cakes and cakes made of glutinous rice and sugar are used to worship stoves.

3. jiaozi and jiaozi

In many places in the north, there is a saying that "you have to pay your children home when you go out". As the "head of the family" of ordinary people, Kitchen God needs a bowl of jiaozi before going out for a long trip, so jiaozi is also a very common sacrifice for the kitchen stove in the north. For example, in Liaocheng, Shandong Province, when offering sacrifices to the stove at night, you should worship one or three bowls and sleep with several pairs of chopsticks on them.

4, all kinds of cakes and steamed bread

All kinds of cakes and steamed bread are also common offerings to the kitchen god. For example, in Shaanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Shandong and other regions, a kind of jujube hill steamed bread is commonly used in sacrificial stoves, which is actually a big steamed bread wrapped in red dates. The biggest feature is that a word is big, and the one with a larger diameter is half a foot, more than a foot high and weighs more than ten kilograms. Of course, some exquisite places will create various shapes for buns, such as moire and ruyi patterns centered on big red dates.

5, all kinds of drinks

A meal with food and wine is authentic, so in the menus of chefs everywhere, besides all kinds of vegetables and rice, there are also various drinks, among which tea and wine are the most common. For example, Shiping in Yunnan used cakes and tea to offer sacrifices to stoves on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, and Yushe in Shanxi used rice wine to "send stoves to heaven".