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What do you do to sacrifice the kitchen god? What should be paid attention to when sacrificing to ki

Every year, Xiaonian is on the 23rd of the 12th lunar month. On this day, many families still keep the folk custom of sacrificing to the kitchen, so Xiaonian is also called "sacrificing to the kitchen". In modern times, many families don't know how to carry out the traditional sacrificing to the kitchen in our country, so how to sacrifice to the kitchen and what are the precautions should be mentioned by Xiaobian today.

How to offer sacrifices to the kitchen god

1. First of all, prepare the fruits, wine and vegetables for the sacrifice. When offering, light incense and candles. Specifically, it includes annual sugar cake: a symbol of life sweetness and honey (there is a large bag sold in the supermarket, which contains various things); New Year cake: a symbol of annual height; water chestnut: also known as horseshoe, a symbol of wealth; sugarcane: a symbol of the day. (to have a head and a tail, the Kitchen God uses the tail of sugarcane as a whip); spinach: to have a root, the red root symbolizes the red days and the fire; garlic seedling: to symbolize that life is very easy to count (careful calculation)

The above six kinds are necessary. In addition, there are: Wine: those who offer sacrifices to the kitchen on the 23rd day of the lunar calendar should have wine; those who offer sacrifices to the kitchen on the 24th day of the lunar calendar should not have wine (yellow wine or old wine is OK); tofu: those with the red 'Fu' printed on them are the best; others: candy, orange, etc. Generally ten, or not less than ten. 10、 It represents perfection; burn paper money to Kitchen God, and generally burn gold.

2. Time: all day on the 23rd day of the lunar calendar, 24 at night before 6:00.

3. On the 23rd day of the lunar calendar, those who offer sacrifices to the kitchen should not offer wine. The kitchen god is afraid that he will be full of wine when reporting.

4. The twenty-three offerings of the lunar calendar can be mainly fishy, and the twenty-four offerings are mainly plain. All the dishes are good

5. If some things can't be bought, there will be several, others can be added by yourself.

6. When offering, you can talk to the kitchen god. Please go up and say more good words for your family.

7. If it is a rented house, there is no need to provide kitchen god, because there is no kitchen god in the rented house. If you want to, let the people in your hometown.

8. It's a special reminder that if you are sacrificing to kitchen on the 23rd day of the lunar calendar, don't tear down the old kitchen god, and then tear it down and replace it with a new one around the 24th or the Spring Festival, because the kitchen god won't leave your home until around 6pm on the 24th, ride on horseback and report to the heaven. If you tear down the image of the old kitchen god on 23, the kitchen god will have no place to stay. The offering can take down the old kitchen god and paste the new one. The old kitchen gods can be burned or disposed of as garbage.

Precautions for small year sacrifice kitchen

1. When delivering the kitchen, people put candy, water, beans and hay on the table in front of the kitchen King's statue;

2. Water, beans and haygrass are three kinds of materials for the king's mount;

3. When offering sacrifices to the kitchen stove, we should melt Guandong sugar with fire and smear it on the mouth of the kitchen Lord. In this way, he could not speak ill of the Jade Emperor.

4. There is a custom of "men don't worship the moon, women don't sacrifice the kitchen", so the sacrifice to the kitchen Lord is limited to men.

When do I sacrifice to Zao God in my childhood

It is usually the night of the 23rd of the twelfth month to sacrifice the kitchen god. The festival of offering sacrifices to the kitchen stove has a long history in the folk custom of our country. It is a traditional festival of the Han nationality, also known as Xiaonian, Xiejie and Zaowang Festival. The tradition of offering sacrifices to the kitchen is commonly known as "sending gods" in Chinese folk beliefs, and the Ryukyu language is known as "Royal wish to explain". Firecrackers should be set off on the night of the Lunar New Year (the 23rd lunar month). It is said that at the end of each year, Zaojun, Taisui God and the folk gods all go back to heaven to report their duties to the Jade Emperor. In particular, Zaojun will report to the jade emperor the right and wrong of the good and evil in the world as the basis for rewards and punishments for human beings. Therefore, most people worship the gods and Zaojun at this time.

The 23rd year of the 12th lunar month is also regarded as the beginning of the Chinese New Year. In ancient times, the sacrificial kitchen festival was second only to the Mid Autumn Festival. In ancient times, those who were officials, businessmen or scholars in the outside world had to hurry home before the sacrificial kitchen day to get together and eat the home-made sacrificial kitchen candy, so as to pray for the kitchen god and the family's safety in the coming year.