There are two ballads circulating among the Han folk in the southeast region of Jindong, one of which is " Twenty-three , sending the master to heaven; twenty-four, sweeping the house; twenty-five, steaming dumplings; twenty-six, cutting down the meat; twenty-seven, rubbing the pewter; twenty-eight, composting the scruffy; twenty-nine, washing the feet and hands; thirty days, the god of the door, the couplets are all posted". This reflects the time constraints and the intensity of the preparations. The second is a nursery rhyme: "On the twenty-third day, after sacrificing the stove, the children clapped their hands and laughed. After five or six days, the New Year will come. The box to ward off evil spirits, play with the walnuts, and the two cannons are fired. The five sons are on their way to the top, and the fire rises higher than the sky." Reflects the joyful psychology of children looking forward to the New Year. Among all the preparations, cutting and pasting of window decorations is the most prevalent folklore activity. There are also various drama stories, and folklore has the saying, "Da Deng Dian, Er Du Mei, San Niang Teaching in the fourth into the earth, five women worshiping the birthday in June snow, July 7 Tianhe match, eight immortals celebrating the birthday of the nine pieces of clothing," reflecting the folk's preference for drama stories. A new daughter-in-law of the family, the new daughter-in-law to bring their own cut all kinds of window, back to the in-laws paste window, the neighbors have to come to watch. After the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year, every family will steam steamed buns. Roughly divided into two types to honor the gods and relatives with. The former solemn, the latter flower tip. In particular, a large jujube mountain should be made for the worship of Zaojun. "When a family steams flower buns, the four neighbors come to help." This is often a great opportunity for folk women to show off their dexterity, and a flower bun is a handicraft. The custom of sending the stove is extremely common in the north and south of China, Mr. Lu Xun once wrote a poem "Gengzi send stove that is the case": only chicken gum teeth sugar, the clothes for the petal incense. I'm not sure if I'm missing the yellow sheep.

He said in the article "Zaojun Day Writings": "Zaojun ascension day, the street also sells a kind of sugar, the size of a mandarin fruit, in our place also have this thing, but flat, like a thick small pancake. That's called 'Gum Tooth Molasses'. The intention was in inviting Zaojun to eat it and glue his teeth so that he could not flirt and speak ill of the Jade Emperor. "The allusion to the 'yellow sheep' in Lu Xun's poem comes from the Book of the Later Han Dynasty - Biography of Yin Zhi: "At the time of Emperor Xuan Di, Yin Zifang was a filial son with benevolence. Waxing morning cooking, and the stove God see, Zifang worship again to be celebrated; home has a yellow sheep, because of the sacrifice. Since then, after the storm to the rich. To know three generations, and then prosperous, so after often to wax day sacrifice stove and recommend yellow sheep." Yin Zifang saw the god of the stove, kill the yellow sheep sacrifice, and then made good luck, and from then on, the custom of killing the yellow sheep sacrifice to the stove has been passed down.

The offerings for Zaos in the Tang and Song dynasties were quite abundant. The Song Dynasty poet Fan Chengda's "Zaosi words" made an extremely vivid depiction of the folk festival of Zaosi at that time: Ancient legend of the twenty-fourth day of the waxing moon, Zaosi wants to say something towards the sky. The cloud car, the wind and the horses stayed a little, and the family had cups and plates for the festival. The pig's head is rotten and the fish is fresh, the bean paste is sweet and loose, and the rice bait is round. Men offer their daughters to avoid it, and sprinkle wine and burn money to make Zaojun happy. Don't be angry at the maid's struggles, or at the cats and dogs that touch you. I will send you to the gate of heaven with a full stomach and a long spoon and a short spoon, so don't go back to the clouds and beg for a share of the profits.

The sacrificial stove on the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year is closely related to the New Year. This is because, a week later, on the night of the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, Lord Zao comes to earth with the other gods with the good fortune and misfortune that the family is supposed to get. Lord Zao is believed to lead the way for the gods in heaven. The other gods ascend to heaven again after the New Year, but only Zao Wangwang stays in people's kitchens for a long time. The ceremony of welcoming the gods is called "receiving the gods", and for Lord Zao it is called "receiving the stove". The ceremony is usually much simpler on New Year's Eve, when you just need to put on a new stove lamp and burn incense in front of the stove niche, and that's the end of it.

There is a saying that "men don't worship the moon, women don't worship the stove". In some places, women do not sacrifice the stove, it is said, Zaowang master looks like a white man, afraid of female sacrifice stove, there is a "male and female suspicion". The origin of Zaowangsaos has a long history. Among the Han Chinese folk gods, Zao is considered very old. As early as in the Xia Dynasty, he was already a great god worshipped by the people. According to the ancient book "Rituals - Rituals" Kong Yingda sparse: "Zhuanxu's son said Li, Zhu Rong, sacrificed as the god of the stove." Zhuangzi - Dasheng recorded: "Stove has a bun." Sima Biao notes: "Bun, stove god, wearing red clothes, like a beautiful woman." It is also written in "Zuopu Zi Wei Ji" that "On the night of the moon's darkness, the god of the stove also goes up to the sky for the white man's sins." These records are probably the source of the sacrifices to the God of Vesta. In addition, it may be said that the god of the stove is the "flint man's" who drills wood to make fire; or it may be said that it is the "fire officer" of Shennong; or it may be said that it is the "Su Jili" who "made the stove for the Yellow Emperor"; or it may be said that the god of the stove is surnamed Zhang, list, and the word Ziguo; there are many different stories. The word "Ziguo" is also said to be the name of the god Zao, Zhang, list, and the character "Ziguo".

Because of the different customs, the Han Chinese folk "jumping Zao Wang" and "playing Zao Wang" activities. After the Zaosai Festival, the preparations for the New Year will officially begin. Every year from the twenty-third day of the lunar month to New Year's Eve, China's folk called this period of time "to welcome the spring day", also known as "sweeping dust day". Sweeping is the end of the year cleaning, the north called "sweeping room", the south called "dusting". Sweeping dust before the Spring Festival is a traditional habit of our people. Whenever the Spring Festival comes, every household has to clean up the environment, cleaning all kinds of appliances, unwashing bedding curtains, sweeping the courtyard, dusting dust cobwebs, dredge the nullahs and ditches. The whole country is filled with the atmosphere of joyful sanitation and cleanliness to welcome the New Year.

"Lunar New Year's Eve, dust sweeping the house" custom, has a long history. According to "Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals" records, our country in the era of Yao and Shun on the Spring Festival dust sweeping custom. According to folklore: because the "dust" and "Chen" consonant, dust sweeping in the New Year has "in addition to the meaning of Chen Bu Xin", the intention is to put all the "poor luck! ", "bad luck" are swept out. This custom is the desire of the people to break the old, and the wish of the old and welcome the new prayers.

"Three corpses of God" Taoism said in the human body of the "God". According to the "three corpses in the scripture", "the upper corpse Peng 倨, in the human head; in the corpse Peng quality, in the human abdomen; the lower corpse Peng Jiao, in the human foot." It is also said that on the day of Geng Shen, they would go up to heaven to tell the emperor of heaven about the sins of people; but as long as people stayed up all night on that day, they could avoid it, which is called "guarding Geng Shen". After cutting and pasting the windowpane in the cleaned house, it adds a lot of New Year's cheer to the house.

Window pattern has a variety of animals, plants, people and other palindromes, such as magpies, peacocks play peonies, lions rolling embroidered balls, three sheep (Yang) Kaitai, two dragons playing pearls, deer and crane Tongchun (six contracts spring), five bats (Fukushima) hold life, rhinoceros moon, lotus (even) years of fish (Yu), mandarin ducks playing in the water, the Liu Hai play Golden Cicada, and the two Immortals and so on. As the old saying goes, "On the twenty-third day of the month, sugar melons are sticky, and Zaojun is going to heaven".

Eating Zao sugar, Zao sugar is a kind of malt sugar, sticky, it is drawn as a long sugar stick called "Guandong sugar", pulled into a flat round type is called "sugar melon". Put it outside the house in winter, because of the cold weather, sugar melon solidified solid and some tiny bubbles inside, eat it crunchy, sweet and crispy, unique flavor. The real Guandong sugar is very hard, can not be broken, eat must be split with a kitchen knife, the material is very heavy and very fine. Slightly sour taste, no honeycomb in the middle, each piece weighs one or two, two or four, the price is also more expensive. Sugar melons divided into sesame and no sesame two kinds of sugar made into melon shape or melon shape, the center is empty, the skin is not as thick as five points, although the size of the different, but the transaction is still calculated by the amount, the big sugar melons weighing one or two pounds, but used as a front to buy very few people.

Guandong sugar is also known as Zao Wang sugar, big sugar. In the year, only around the New Year's Eve is it sold. Guandong sugar is a sugar product made of malt and millet boiled down, and it is used for sacrificing to the God of Zao. The Qing Dynasty recorded in the "Yanjing Yearly Records" that in the Qing Dynasty, "Guandong Sugar" and "Sugar Cake" were among the offerings to the God of Zaos. In the rural areas and cities of Northeast China, there are vendors in the streets, alleys and markets selling "big pieces of sugar, big pieces of sugar, big pieces of sugar that are crispy and fragrant." Cream-colored cubes of sugar, placed on a square plate, usually three inches long, one inch wide, flat, in the form of silk strips. The newly made big cubes of sugar, when put in the mouth and bitten, are crispy and fragrant, sticky and have a special flavor, which is a kind of sugar that is very popular among men, women and children in Guandong. It has come down from the sacrificial table of Lord Zao, widely enjoyed by the people.