Which direction does Kitchen God face? Please help me solve it.
Every year on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, the Kitchen God reports the merits and demerits to the world, which will determine people's fate. Therefore, the customs in the north and south are to worship the kitchen god and burn incense on the night of1February 23rd. In the old days, there was also a difference between the gentry's family sending stoves on the 23rd and the common people's family sending stoves on the 24th. There are mostly sugar ingots, fried rice candy, peanut candy, sesame candy, glutinous rice balls and so on. After the sacrifice, the old paper horse that has been dedicated to the kitchen god for many years will be taken out of the stove and burned with the paper ingot to show that the kitchen god is in heaven. On New Year's Eve, when you receive God, you will receive a gift from Kitchen God. After you worship the Kitchen God, you will post a new paper horse on the kitchen.
Sitting in the east and west, the full name of Kitchen God is "Kitchen God who commands the nine spirits of the East Kitchen", commonly known as "Kitchen God", "Kitchen God who commands the true king", "Smoke Lord of the East Kitchen for nine days", "House God" or "Kitchen King". In the north, he is called "Kitchen God", and Luanmen is regarded as one of the three benefactors, that is, Kitchen God.
When offering sacrifices to Zhao Jun, you should make offerings, burn incense and worship, and then drink wine for the first time. At this time, you should sincerely pray to Zao Jun, and then enter the wine for the second time. After drinking for the third time, it is necessary to tear off the old portrait of Zao Jun and burn it with A, Ma and Qian, indicating the successful completion of the ceremony. Burning a horse with paper paste is to make a mount for the kitchen god. You should prepare some soybeans and hay as dry food and forage for the kitchen god and the horse to travel long distances. In addition, I have to burn incense and kowtow, grab a few handfuls of straw ash in the stove pit, spread it on the ground in front of the stove, and mumble, "Heaven is kind, and you can go back to the palace safely." The purpose is to pray for the Kitchen God to report all kinds of good things to the Jade Emperor God in one year, and not to speak ill of them. After God sends it away, he brings it back on the fourth day of the first month (New Year's Eve), which is called "receiving the kitchen" or "receiving the god". The ceremony of picking up the kitchen god is very simple. Just stick a new god on the kitchen stove.