Preliminary Year is on 23rd of the last lunar month. It is a day when people offer sacrifices to the kitchen god. The “monarch of kitchen” or “kitchen god” is a god who takes charge of the fortune of families. On the New Year’s Eve, the kitchen god will come to earth with other gods to celebrate the Spring Festival, so there should be a ceremony of “welcoming the kitchen god”.
People always have a thorough cleaning of their houses before the 23rd day. Every family will do the cleaning carefully and completely to make the house bright and clean. Every year when it comes to that day, the housewives will firstly cover the beds and furniture and hood themselves. Then they will brush the walls with brooms. Later on they will clean the tables and floors. After all these, every family will take an entirely new look.
