Hence, every household prepares sticky sweet glutinous rice balls for their returning deities, and some people even go so far as to actually shove these confections in the gods 'mouths. The idea is to "sweeten their tongues" before they make their reports, so that they "remember the good and forget the bad."
因此家家戶戶都必須奉上又甜又黏的湯圓，甚至將湯圓黏在神明的嘴上，好讓神明嘴巴甜甜，「好話傳上天，壞話丟一邊」，揚善隱惡替人們多說好話。