Article: CHINESE NEW YEAR; 2005; YEAR OF THE ROOSTER

CHINESE NEW YEAR

2005

YEAR OF THE ROOSTER

When Sherry Liu was a little girl, she heard stories about how The Kitchen God delivered a report on each family to The Jade Emperor in heaven. "To get a good report, people had sweets in the kitchen in the hopes that the Kitchen God will have a sweet mouth and say good things about the family," says Liu, who adds that even when she was a young girl, almost 50 years ago, her family did not follow this custom.

Making offerings to The Kitchen God is among the very old Chinese New Year traditions in a celebration which began more than 4,000 years ago. The custom of a spring festival began in the Western Zhou Dynasty. It wasn't until later, during the ...

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