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The 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, also called Lunar New Year's Eve, is a day of offering sacrifices to stoves, sweeping dust and eating candy from stoves in traditional culture in China. The folk song "Twenty-three, Melon Stick" refers to the god who worships the 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 monks" or "officials, three people, four monks and five monks", that is, the government holds a kitchen worship on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the common people hold it on the 24th, and the government boats, temples and Taoist temples are held on the 25th.
Later, it gradually evolved into the saying of "twenty-three, off-year".