Far Eastern Comics: Stove Sugar Prays for the Age of Blessings to the Wanjia Family

Waxing Moon Twenty-Three

The 23rd day of the Waxing Moon is a small year in the traditional festivals of the mainland. Small years, there are different dates in various places, the northern region is the twenty-third lunar month, and most of the southern region is the twenty-fourth lunar month.

The small year is usually a sacrificial stove and sweeps the dust, so it is also called the festival of the stove, the festival of the king of the stove, and the day of sweeping dust.

Folk sacrifice stove originated from the ancient people worship fire customs, "Interpretation": "stove, make also, create food also", legend says that the duty of the stove god is to control the stove fire, manage the diet, every year, the stove god to the Jade Emperor to report the good and evil of this family, so people will put stove sugar, sugar melon and the like at home on this day, in order to pray for the stove god "heaven to say good things, the nether world to ensure peace", so there is a "twenty-three, sugar melon sticky" folk song. Sugar melon is a kind of sticky sugar made of yellow rice and malt, in the northern countryside, to the twenty-third day of the annual Waxing Moon, take malt and yellow rice in an iron pot, heat it to make it soft, mix sesame seeds, make thin slices with a rolling pin, cut it with a knife, and eat it after the temperature is cooled, the taste is mellow, crisp but not greasy.

Sweeping the dust means that every household cleans up inside and out on this day, which means to remove the old and welcome the new, welcome the good luck, and express a kind of expectation for a better life in the coming year.

After the dust of the stove was removed, the curtain was officially opened.

(Source: Far Eastern Comics)

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