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Do you know why we eat the Gâteau la cire – Nian Gao?
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Kitchen God
To monitor every family’s behaviour, the Jade Emperor sent a lesser god of low raking among the deities to reside in the kitchen of each family. They are generally known as kitchen gods.
Every first day of the year, the kitchen gods were to return to heaven to make an annual report to the Jade Emperor, also known as Yu Huang Da Ti, about the deeds of the family they resided with.
To ensure the report would be presented in the family’s favour, the family would try to please him by cleaning the stove properly as that was his dwelling place. Then sweetened rice cake (nian gao – the cake of year) would be offered to the kitchen god for two reasons. One to make sure his mouth was sweet and flattering words would be put across to the Jade Emperor.
The other reason was that the sweetened glutinous rice cake being sticky would make the deity unable to articulate properly. To ensure good words reach the Jade Emperor was important because with good deeds come blessings and good fortune for the coming year. A negative report would bring punishments.
As kitchen gods are lesser minor deities, they are known to like liquor and can easily be manipulated. To get the kitchen god drunk was easy. Just dip his portrait in wine or liquor and he would be so drunk that he would either be too drunk to report properly or he would be late and miss his appointment hour. Missing his appointment was a serious offence and the punishment would fall on him instead of the family. 🀄️
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