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Little New Year
Sticky sweets are offered at the stove rite, and Ming Beijing offered sugar cakes, millet cakes, dates and chestnuts.
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In a snowy farmhouse yard, a boy sweeps the stone courtyard with a straw broom while a girl sets offerings of sweets on the stove altar beneath a Kitchen God print, red candles and plum blossoms.
The kitchen god is sent off on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth month, opening the New Year season