The origins of the small year come from a folk tale, legendary stove king was originally a civilian Zhangsheng, married a day after all day spent to defeat the family business reduced to begging on the streets. One day, he begged his ex-wife Guo clove home, ashamed, drilled to the bottom of a stove burned.

Jade Emperor know, think Zhang could turn around, not bad in the end, since dead at the bottom of the pot, put him as King of Cookets, every year twelfth lunar month twenty-three God reported, New Year's Eve and then back to the kitchen bottom . People think kitchen king must be respected, because he wants God to report with the Jade Emperor. As a result, the Han nationality has a twelfth lunar month twenty-three, twenty-four sacrificial stove "small", pray for peace and wealth in the coming year.