"There are many earthen stoves in the countryside, which are arc-shaped and mostly have two eyes. On the wall between the two stove doors, there will be a rectangular empty slot. That slot is the territory of the Stove Lord. There is a statue of the Stove Lord. , it was posted at my house a few years ago. The paper was old yellow calendar paper, and the printing was rough. It looked a bit like the pirated books now sold on street stalls, but the image of the Kitchen God looked a bit like what is now called the "rough image school" painting. The Stove Lord has a fat head and big ears, and wears a military hat. He has kind eyebrows and a peaceful face. He looks like a wretched villain in the world's imagination, where everyone has to be on guard against him snitching. But, then again, Most Chinese gods are created by humans, and man-made gods will naturally take on human nature. The Chinese have a saying: "It is difficult to know a person's face, but it is difficult to know his heart, and it is difficult to paint a tiger's skin and bones." Snitching is also a common problem in China, so this Even the amiable old man cannot escape from this cage. The Chinese people have suffered a lot from snitching. Besides, the Stove Lord only has the opportunity to go to heaven to report his duties to the Jade Emperor once a year, so when this day comes, the honest country people will also She tried all kinds of ways to please the "baozi" sent by the Jade Emperor. She would smear his mouth with extremely sticky glutinous rice cake - making him unable to open his mouth, and smear his mouth with sugar. ——Let him be soft-spoken. During the memorial ceremony, Nianghui prayed silently: "The Stove Lord, whose real name is Zhang, rode a horse and carried a gun to the sky to see the Jade Emperor. Good things will happen in the world. Say more, and may you see good luck in the lower world next year. "At the end, they will ask us to kneel down and kowtow. After the sacrifice, they will "invite" the Stove Lord down, and burn it together with the couplet: "God's word is good luck, and the lower world is safe", just like a person paying tribute to a leader After accepting the bribe, I was still there to remind him that the Stove God would go to heaven on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month and return on the 3rd and 5th day of the twelfth lunar month, even if he had completed the reporting task and brought good luck to bless the family to live a safe life.

The sky at this time looks extremely auspicious and peaceful, and the rural festival, Xiaonian, really comes on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month.