What is the kitchen god?

Kitchen God, also known as Kitchen God, is often mentioned when the Chinese New Year approaches, because it is said in folklore that the Kitchen God reports the human situation to the sky on the 23rd night of the twelfth lunar month every year, and then returns to the world on the fourth day of the first month. He is the lowest-ranking immortal in myths and legends.

There are many kinds of origins about the Kitchen God.

Said he was Yan Di, the Yellow Emperor or their descendants;

"extremes meet": the yellow emperor cooked and died as a kitchen god.

On Huai Nan Zi Pan Zi: Emperor Yan made a fire and died as a stove. Emperor Yan ruled the world with fire, and enjoyed the sacrifice as the kitchen god after his death. )

Shuowen: Zhuan Xu's son Li, named Zhu Rong, is worshipped as the Kitchen God.

"Mandarin Zheng Yu": Liv is the fire of Gao Xin, dazzling and shining all over the world, so it is called "Zhu Rong"

Qiu Meng in Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals: Zhu Rong, queen Zhuan Xu, son of old boys, Ng Wui, also a fire official, died as the god of fire officials.

Many people think that Kitchen God is Vulcan, because the "fire" they have mastered is a "necessity" for cooking with fire in ancient times, so they are all regarded as Kitchen God.

Some people say that people become gods when they die. He was originally an ungrateful prodigal son named Zhang Dan, who went into the kitchen because he was ashamed to see his wife and became the kitchen god.

According to legend, the kitchen god's surname is Zhang, and his father's name is Zhang Million. There is a lot of money, fertile land, gold, silver and Man Ku.

Zhang Million got this son in his fifties and was very spoiled. After Zhang Million's death, all his property fell into the hands of the Kitchen God. With money in his hand, Kitchen God began to misbehave, eating, drinking, whoring and gambling. After several years of profligacy, Zhang Million's hard-earned wealth has all been spent. On this day, the kitchen god said to his daughter-in-law, "wife, I can't carry the basket with my hands and shoulders." Not anymore. If you want to follow me, you will starve to death. How about I divorce you and find a good family? "

Grandma Chef later met a young man and told him everything about herself. Finally, they became husband and wife.

Through hard work and luck, they became famous rich people. Grandma Kitchen King is very kind. Anyone who wants to eat can come here and eat and live here. The story of grandma kitchen king serving porridge and cloth dishes spread all at once.

Besides, the kitchen god, he divided two silver dollars, spent them in a few days, and had no money, so he had to beg along the street. Later, the kitchen god heard that there was a big manor for him to eat, so he went to grandma's house. Kitchen God thinks he has lost his once big family business. People have made so much money in recent years that they have no face to meet Grandma Cook, so they plunged into the stove in shame. Grandma Chef came here and tried to drag him out, but he didn't. Grandma Kitchen King saw that she was burned to death and got into the stove.

The Jade Emperor pitied the repentance of the Kitchen God, so he named him "Kitchen God" and ordered him to go to the folk, stand behind people's pots and pans, observe folk affairs, and return to the sky on December 23 of the lunar calendar every year to report the folk problems of the past year to the Jade Emperor.

Whether the Kitchen God is a man or a woman is controversial at first, which may be related to the earliest matriarchal society in China. So we can still see the New Year pictures of Kitchen God, including those of an old couple and a single grandfather and grandmother.

Customs vary from place to place, but the purpose is to look forward to the kind words of the kitchen god and hope that his family will prosper smoothly in the new year. Because the kitchen god reports the merits and demerits of the world, which will determine people's fortune. Therefore, most people worship the kitchen god with sugar ingots, fried rice candy, peanut candy, sesame candy and glutinous rice dumplings, hoping to "stick" the kitchen god's mouth and prevent him from talking about human sins. There is an old saying: "Heaven speaks well, and the next world will be safe."

In ancient times, it was very difficult to cook with fire, and "food is the most important thing for the people", so people believed in the kitchen god very much. After thousands of years of development, cooking has become more and more convenient, and now technology is more and more developed, so many customs are gradually forgotten by everyone. ...