In Wenzhou, Zhejiang, people still care about off-year. There will be many traditional customs and some local activities during the off-year period. So how much do you know about the festival of offering sacrifices to stoves in Wenzhou? What do local people in Wenzhou do at the festival of offering sacrifices to stoves?

Sacrifice to the kitchen god

Off-year is also a day of folk sacrifice. According to folklore, every year on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, Kitchen God will tell the Jade Emperor about the good and evil of this family and let the Jade Emperor reward and punish them. Therefore, when sending stoves, people put candy, water, beans, couplets and grass on the console table in front of the kitchen king statue; Among them, the last three are the mounts of the kitchen god ascending to heaven.

When offering sacrifices to the stove, you should melt the Guandong sugar with fire and put it on the mouth of the kitchen god. In this way, he can't speak ill of the jade emperor In addition, on New Year's Eve, the Kitchen God will bring the gods to the world for the New Year, and there will be a ceremony to pick up the kitchen and pick up the gods on that day. Every family burns sedan chairs and horses, sprinkles three glasses of wine, and sends away the kitchen god, so it's their turn to worship their ancestors.

Conclusion: When offering sacrifices to Kitchen God, the first thing to do is offering sacrifices to Kitchen God, which is very important. The local people will also make special Kwantung sugar and apply it to the mouth of the kitchen god.