Why don't you worship the kitchen god when you tell your fortune?

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Why do you say "men don't Yue Bai, women don't sacrifice stoves"?

"Men don't Yue Bai, women don't offer sacrifices to stoves" is an old saying, which means that men don't offer sacrifices to luna and women don't offer sacrifices to stoves.

The ancients paid attention to feudal etiquette. On August 15, Yue Bai will worship the Kitchen God on New Year's Eve. The ancients believed that the Moon God was the place where the goddess Chang 'e lived. The moon belonged to Yin and the sun to Yang, so only women could Yue Bai, but men could not. In addition, the ancients believed that Chang 'e was a beautiful woman. If a man worships, it's a sign of ulterior motives, so a man can't Yue Bai. The kitchen god is generally said to be male, so women can't worship the kitchen god. Women must be doing bad things when cooking, so women are not allowed to worship the kitchen god.

The custom that women don't sacrifice to the stove has a long history. Fan Chengda, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, wrote in the Ci of Sacrificing a Kitchen:

According to the ancient legend of the twelfth lunar month, the kitchen god speaks to the sky.

Clouds, cars and horses linger, and there are cups and plates at home.

The pig's head is cooked, the fish is fresh, and the bean paste and Gan Song bait are round.

Men take the initiative to let their daughters avoid, that is, drinking and burning money, and the chef is happy. ...

This shows that at least in the Southern Song Dynasty, women were asked to avoid offering sacrifices. Why not let women offer sacrifices to stoves? In folklore, Kitchen God is a male god incarnated by mythical figures such as Emperor Yan or Zhu Rong. In feudal times, men and women paid attention to "giving and receiving without kissing", so love women's sacrifice was also against feudal ethics.