腊月二十三,俗称“过小年”,民间素有“祭灶神”的习俗。 灶神是谁?为何要祭他?灶神,旧时称灶王爷、灶君菩萨、锅灶神君。唐人殷成式《酉阳杂俎》卷十四载:“灶神名隗,状如美女。又姓张,名禅,字子郭。”他是天帝派到人间每家每户的“特务”。人们祭祀他是希望他上天对玉皇大帝多美言几句。有的人用灶糖敬他,好把他的牙齿粘住,使他不便乱说;有的人用酒糟涂抹灶门,使灶神醉得不能说话;也有的人用猪头、黄羊、鲜鱼、豆沙、粉饵等祭祀,灶神受到了人们的特殊招待,“吃了人家的嘴短”,就不好讲坏话了。 On the twelfth lunar month twenty-three, commonly known as “a small year”, known as the folk “sacrifice Zao God” custom. Who is the god of the kitchen? Why sacrifice him? Kitchen God, the old king of kitchen, kitchen stove Buddha, pot God. The Tang Dynasty Yincheng “Youyang miscellaneous miscellaneous” volume fourteen set: “kitchen god name 隗, like a beautiful woman .And Zhang, Zen, Zi Guo.” He is sent to the world every God “spies” . People sacrifice to him is hoping he God more than a few beautiful words about the Jade Emperor. Some people use gratin to treat him so that he can stick his teeth, making it inconvenient for him to say something; some people spread the door with distiller’s grains to make the kitchen god drunk unable to speak; others use pig heads, yellow goats, fresh fish , Red bean paste, bait and other sacrificial offerings, Kitchen God has been the special hospitality of people, “eat the mouth of others short”, it is not good to speak bad things.