Yingbao was learning how to weave a belt from her mother, using blue dyed cotton thread.
A belt as wide as a palm could be woven in a few days.
So she wove a belt each for her two younger brothers.
On the twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month, it was time to worship the God of Stove.
Jiang Sanlang got up early in the morning and placed offerings on the stove, burned the old Stove God image, lit incense and prayed, respectfully sending the Stove God to heaven to report on the family's behavior.
In order not to let the Stove God speak ill of the family and bring misfortune in the coming year, everyone in the family had to watch their mouths, they couldn't curse others, let alone blaspheme the Heavenly God.
They would wait until New Year's Eve to put up a new image of the Stove God and welcome it back to the house.