When is Kitchen God's birthday?

Kitchen God's birthday is 65438+February 23rd every year (there is also a saying of 24th).

On God's Day, the Kitchen God will thank the Kitchen God, also known as giving the kitchen, the kitchen festival, thanking the kitchen, the kitchen festival, the kitchen god festival, and so on.

Kitchen god is also called kitchen god, kitchen god, kitchen god is in charge of life, kitchen god is the star king. According to China folklore, Kitchen God reports to the sky every year on the 23rd night of the twelfth lunar month (there are also twenty-four sayings) and returns to earth on the fourth day of the first month. It is the lowest fairy in myths and legends.

65438+February 23rd of the lunar calendar is a folk festival of offering sacrifices to stoves in China. The custom of offering sacrifices to stoves began in the Zhou Dynasty. The time of offering sacrifices to the stove is different. In the past, in the summer of Han Dynasty, it was the 24th of the twelfth lunar month from Han Dynasty to Song Dynasty, and the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month in Ming and Qing Dynasties. According to folklore, Kitchen God was sent by the Jade Emperor to supervise good and evil. He goes back to the Jade Emperor every year. Before he returns to heaven, people will set a sacrifice for him to see him off.

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The prototype of Kitchen God:

1. In ancient times, there were different opinions about the gender of the kitchen god. Most scholars regard Kitchen God as an old woman or a beautiful woman. Regarding the Qing Dynasty's "A Complete Book of Respect for Kitchen", it is said that the kitchen god's surname is Zhang, the famous list and the word Guo, and he is a male god. Zhao Jun, a famous oriental chef in China, was blessed, and an old couple sat side by side, or a man and two women sat side by side, which is the portrait of Zhao Jun and his wife.

The paper horses of the East Chef and the Dingfu Chef, which are worshipped by the people in China, are often portraits of an old couple sitting side by side, that is, the chef and his wife. It seems that the Chinese people are afraid of the loneliness of the male kitchen god, and they have another grandmother of the kitchen king to worship, which fully embodies the spirit of "people-oriented".

2. Kitchen God Township is commonly known as Zaogong, also known as Shunmian Palace, which is estimated to be the homonym of "Siming Palace". The worship of Kitchen God should come from discovering and using fire to drive away animals and cook food. But it should be called the kitchen god after the family is formed, or when the stove is ready to cook.

Books in past dynasties have different opinions about who the Kitchen God is, or they think it is Yan Di, Huangdi, Zhu Rong and Song Wuji. After the appearance of Taoism, Kitchen God became the God sent by the Jade Emperor to inspect people's feelings, which was generally accepted by the people. The worship of kitchen god is the most popular, which is everywhere in the north and south of the Yangtze River, and the customs are relatively unified. For example, I believe that Kitchen God will go to heaven on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, and will burn paper horses for water and sugar to make him speak well.

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