Social life of the Chinese : with some account of their religious, governmental, educational and business customs and opinions, with special but not exclusive reference to Fuhchau . ually simply pasted uponthe wall of the kitchen, behind or nearthe furnace, where it remains for one •year, or one year minus one day, when itis torn down, and replaced the same orthe following evening by another similarpaper, adapted, as regards its date, ta-bles, etc., to the coming year. In man-darin establishments, the god of thekitchen furnace is worshiped, in accord-ance with an ancient custom, as the Su-peri
Social life of the Chinese : with some account of their religious, governmental, educational and business customs and opinions, with special but not exclusive reference to Fuhchau . ually simply pasted uponthe wall of the kitchen, behind or nearthe furnace, where it remains for one •year, or one year minus one day, when itis torn down, and replaced the same orthe following evening by another similarpaper, adapted, as regards its date, ta-bles, etc., to the coming year. In man-darin establishments, the god of thekitchen furnace is worshiped, in accord-ance with an ancient custom, as the Su-perintendent, or Inspector of Good and Evil. On the evening of the twenty-third of the twelfth monthoccurs the annual sacrifice of meats before the god of thekitchen. According to estimation, this is made by some sixtenths of the families at this place and vicinity. Those whomake it use no rice. Chicken-meat, duck, goat, pork, fish,clams, crabs, sweet cake, sugar-cane, loose-skinned oranges,vermicelli, etc., with wine, tea, large candles, incense, and sev-eral kinds of mock-money, constitute sometimes the meat sac-rifice, in distinction from a vegetable sacrifice. These things. (iOi> OF THE KITCHEN. THE KITCHEX GOD REPORTS TO are arranged on a table before the old kitchen god. At theproper time, the head of the family kneels down before thegod and bows his head three times. Sometimes all the adultmembers of the family kneel and bow in a similar manner, oneafter the other, in token of their thanks for the favors of thegod during the past year, while the younger members explodefire-crackers. Usually, at the close of the sacrifice, the paperhaving the pictures of the god and the goddess is torn downand burned up with the mock-money presented. Some fami-lies do not burn the picture until the ceremonies performed onthe folio win o- evening. The Chinese believe that the old kitchen god ascends toheaven, and reports to the Pearly Emperor Supreme Hiderthe conduct of the members of the
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