The origin of Zaosai

Why do we sacrifice zaos on the 23rd day of the lunar month? What is the origin of Zaosai Festival The twenty-third day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar is the Zaosai Festival of China's folklore. The custom of Zaosai began in the Zhou Dynasty. Stove time varies, the Han Dynasty from the former stove in the summer, Han to Song in the waxing twenty-four, Ming and Qing dynasties, stove has been for the waxing twenty-three. According to legend, Zaowangdi is the god sent by the Jade Emperor to supervise good and evil on earth, and he has to go up to the sky every year to report to the Jade Emperor, and when he returns to the sky before, the people set up a festival for him to send off. On the day of the festival, every family puts up one or two paper horses in front of the stove that Zaojun Bodhisattva rode when he ascended to heaven, and offers wine, fruit, cakes, sesame, walnuts, and paper and silk as sacrifices. And maltose, meant to stick to the mouth of the god of the stove, to prevent him from talking nonsense. Or, wine lees are smeared on the door of the stove in order to intoxicate the god of the stove. After the sacrifice, the old image of Zaoshen was removed and a new image of Zaoshen was put on, with banners such as "Good things are said in heaven and good fortune comes down from the world". Nowadays, the custom of Zaojun no longer exists, but the traditional sweets unique to Zaojun, such as sweet winter melon, muffin cake, shortcake, sesame sugar, etc., have been passed down, adding sweetness and joy to the festival year after year.

What is the origin of Vesta? In the old days, whenever the 23rd or 24th day of the lunar month, the vast majority of people in our country had to sacrifice Lord Zao. According to folklore, there is a Zao Wang Wang in every house. On the eve of the passing of the old year, Zaowangwang is routinely reported to heaven the good and bad of the family's year for the Jade Emperor to decide whether to grant blessings or send calamities to choose. Therefore, before sending the Zaowangsaeng to heaven, people would always offer some wine and maltose to seal his mouth, so as to prevent him from gossiping in front of the Jade Emperor. In this issue of Morning Post Lecture Hall, the master of the hall will tell you a few short stories about Master Zaowang. The master of the hall is Li Xianzhe, a native of Liaocheng, Shandong Province. In recent years, nearly 300 works have been published in the literature and history columns of provincial newspapers and magazines, totaling about 800,000 words. He is the author of Li Xianzhe Anthology. Lord Zao is an ancient Chinese myths and legends of the Division of food and drink of the God, full title is the East Kitchen Division of the nine spirit of the King Ding Fu God, commonly known as the God of Zao, Zao Gong, Zaojun, and so on. Since human beings have left the world of eating and drinking blood and invented fire, with the development of social production, Zao has gradually become closely related to the life of human beings, and Zao worship has also become an important part of folk activities. The legend of the king of the stove in the Qin and Han dynasties According to the "Youyang Miscellany Chopper" records: the king of the stove surnamed Zhang list, also known as Kui, the word Zi Guo, looks like a beautiful woman. Regarding this Zhang list, folklore has another legend that seems to explain the origin of the Zaowang master. Zhang Shan married Ding Xiang, who was very filial to her in-laws. Later, Zhang Dan became rich in business and fell in love with another woman, Haitang, so he went home and repudiated Ding Xiang. After this, Ding Xiang married a poor old woman's firewood son. Hai Tang, on the other hand, was a lazy woman who burned down her family's fortune in a fire and left Zhang Dan to remarry. Zhang Dan had to go around begging for food to make ends meet. One year, on the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year, Zhang Shan went to Ding Xiang's house to beg for food, and when he was recognized, he was so ashamed that he dug his head into the door of the stove. Because he was a member of the Jade Emperor's family (both surnamed Zhang), the Jade Emperor named him Master Zao. The origin of the folklore of Zao Wang Wang is very early, the Shang Dynasty has begun to worship in the folklore. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, Zao Wang Wang was listed as one of the five main rituals, and was responsible for the safety of the family, along with the god of the door, the god of the well, the god of the toilet, and the god of the center ****. In addition to being in charge of people's food and drink and giving people the convenience of life, Zao Wangwang is also an official sent by the Jade Emperor to investigate the good and evil of a family on earth, and he has become a god who supervises the faults of the earth and reports to the Jade Emperor to say bad things about people. It is for this reason that the worship of Zao Wang Wang has been passed down as a popular folk custom. Sugar and wine are indispensable when sacrificing to Zaos In ancient times, Zaos sacrifices were made regardless of status, from the palace ministers down to the commoners, all of them were respectful to Zaosi Wangwang. If people want to pray for blessings to avoid disasters, they are not allowed to burn incense with the stove fire, not to hit the stove, not to put the knife and axe on the stove, not in front of the stove to speak bad words, whining, crying, calling, singing, not to send dirty things into the stove to burn, etc., and so on, and so on. Every year on the 23rd or 24th day of the Lunar New Year, folklore has it that Zao Wang Wang is going to ascend to heaven on this day to report to the Jade Emperor on the situation of the year, and in the old days, people would set up offerings for Zao Wang Wang, which is known as Zao Sacrifice. Maltose and wine are essential to the Zaosai ritual. The wine is to make Zaosai drink to his oblivion and dizziness, while the maltose is sweet and sticky, and the purpose is to use it to paste on Zaosai's mouth so that Zaosai can't open his mouth even if he wants to say something bad, and he can only say a vague word. In the Song Dynasty, Fan Chengda's "Poem for Zaos" said, "It is said that on the twenty-fourth day of the Lunar New Year, Zaojun would like to speak to the sky. The cloud car, wind and horses stayed a little, and the family had cups and plates of rich ceremonies. The pig's head is cooked and the fish is fresh, the bean paste is sweet and loose, and the bait is round. Male discretionary offer daughter avoid, sprinkle wine and burn money Zaojun hi ......" According to relevant information: every year on the twenty-third day of the lunar month, the emperor of the Qing dynasty are routinely in the Kunning Palace sacrifice Zaowang, at the same time set up the sky, the earth gods, the emperor in front of the god of the nine bye, in order to welcome the new year blessing. Stove this day, the Kun Ning Palace set up for the case, placed the god, the god before placing incense and candle offerings, the court set up prairie stove, worship mattress. Royal also like the folk, in the zaosuowangjian Lin ascending to report on the work before, to use sugar to seal the zaosuowangjian's mouth, in order to prevent him in front of the Jade Emperor nonsense. Stove festival, the Palace Supervisor asked the Emperor to Kunning Palace Buddha, statue, before the King Zaobao incense salute. After the ceremony, the Palace Supervisor and then asked the Empress in turn to Zao Wang Wang and other gods salute. Folklore also has the legend of Zaowang Grandma Legend has it that the Jade Emperor's youngest daughter was wise and kind, and very sympathetic to the world's poor. She fell in love with a poor boy who burned a fire to help the stove. When the Jade Emperor learned of this, he was so angry that he sent his daughter down to the mortal world to suffer with the poor boy. The Queen Mother loved her daughter, from which she interceded, and the Jade Emperor reluctantly gave the "poor burner" the title of Master of the Stove. People called the poor fire-burner Master Zaowang, and the Jade Emperor's youngest daughter naturally became Grandmother Zaowang. Zaowang grandmother knows the people's plight, often take the opportunity to go back to her mother's home to visit her family, from the sky ...... >>

The short origin of the custom of sacrificing Zaosheng Wang Xiao Nian, is the festival of sacrificing Zaojun. Stove festival, folk preaching eating dumplings, meaning "send off dumplings to meet the wind face". In mountainous areas, they eat cakes and buckwheat noodles. Southeast Jin, the custom of eating fried corn, folk proverb "twenty-three, do not eat fried, the first day of the New Year, a pot down," the saying. People like to fry corn with maltose bonding up, frozen into a large block, eat crispy and sweet.

To the waxing moon, families are preparing for the New Year. Dust sweeping is to get rid of the old and welcome the new, pull out the bad luck. Every household should be carefully and thoroughly clean, so that the windows are clear. In Beijing, the 24th of Lunar New Year is usually designated as the day of sweeping.

Sweeping dust is mainly the home for a thorough cleaning, the housewife usually first room bed furniture covered up, with a head scarf will head wrapped up, and then use the broom will be up and down the walls to sweep clean. After sweeping the house, tables and chairs were scrubbed and floors were rinsed. After sweeping the house, the stores and residents' homes look brand new.

Every year on the twenty-third day of the Lunar New Year, Master Zao has to go up to the Jade Emperor to report the good and bad of this family, so that the Jade Emperor will reward and punish. Therefore, when sending the stove, people in front of the Zaowang statue of the table for candy, water, beans, forage grass, of which the latter three is for the Zaowang ascension of the mount prepared materials. At the time of Zao worship, the Guandong candies are also melted with fire and applied on the mouth of Zao Wang. In this way, he will not be able to speak ill of the Jade Emperor. There is a custom that "men don't worship the moon, women don't sacrifice to the stove", so sacrificing to Zaosi Wangwang is limited to men only.

Sugar melon, caramel, sugar and other food for the mouth of the king of the stove to wipe the food, gradually evolved into a child must eat snacks on New Year's Day. Northwest Jinbei have "twenty-three eat sugar, eat not eat sugar gnawing fingers" of the proverb.

What is the sacrificial stove? What are the customary activities? What is the origin? Xiaonian is China's traditional Han Chinese festival, also known as Xiezao, Zao Festival, Zao Wang Festival, Zao, in different places on different dates, in the lunar calendar on the 23rd or 24th (Sichuan and Guizhou and other parts of the Lunar New Year for the 30th, the first month of the fifteenth for the big year). Xiao Nian is regarded as the beginning of the New Year.

Xiao Nian is the day of folk worship of the stove. It is said that on this day, the Zaowang master will go up to heaven to report to the Jade Emperor on the good and bad of the family, so that the Jade Emperor can reward and punish them. During the zaos offering, Guandong sugar is also melted with fire and smeared on the mouth of the Zaosheng, so that he can't say bad words in front of the Jade Emperor. The custom of "men don't worship the moon, women don't worship the stove", so the sacrifice of Zao Wang Wang is only limited to men.

Since Chinese people basically eat rice, cooked food is generally not easy to keep, and must be cooked at any time. Unlike bread in the West, which can be baked and preserved for consumption. So for the Chinese, "Chai" (fuel) is the life of the "seven things" (wood, rice, oil, salt, soy, vinegar, and tea) in the first important, no fuel, even if there is a basic food is no way to eat. In the West, a bread oven is enough for a village, but in China, every family must have a stove.

Because every family has a stove, a legend has arisen that the Jade Emperor assigned a supervisor to each family, the Zaoshen (Zaojun, Zaojun, Zaowang, Zaowang), to supervise and inspect the family's behavior for a year, and on the 23rd of Lunar New Year, the Zaoshen would go up to the sky to report back to the Jade Emperor, who would then decide whether the family should be rewarded or punished for the next year based on the report, and then return on the next New Year. The next New Year, the Zaoshen will come back to continue to supervise the family's behavior. The day of the festival is actually a festival for families to send the god of the stove to heaven

Search for the source of the festival of the stove need less, not too much ?

The origin of Zao Wangwang comes Origin

1, Overview

It is the most common Chinese Han folk beliefs in the god o, almost all ethnic groups have worship. According to records, the custom of sacrificing zaos was already popular in the pre-Qin Dynasty. But Zao Shen

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What exactly is, is not an easy to figure out the problem. Because there are too many references to say, can be roughly divided into four schools:

2, the ancient emperor or descendants said

The original meeting of things, said the Yellow Emperor for the stove, the death of the God of the stove. The Huainanzi? Panglossian": Yandi made fire and died as a stove. Gao lure note: Yandi to fire virtue for the management of the world, died as the identity of the God of the stove to enjoy the sacrifices. Zhou Li said: Zhuan Xu's son said Lai, Zhu Rong, sacrificed as the god of the stove. The State Language? Zheng language ": Fu Li for the Gaoxin's fire is, to ChunYaoDunDa, TianMingDiDe, the light of the four seas, so the name of the 'ZhuRong'. Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals? Meng Qiu" its god Zhu Rong high note: Zhu Rong, Zhuan Xu's after the old boy's son, Wu Hui is also, for the high Xin's fire, died for the fire official of the God. Some people accordingly think that the God of the stove is the God of fire, is the product of the worship of this natural force into the human living space after the variant. Since Yan Di is the Emperor of Fire Virtue and Zhu Rong is the God of Fire Officials, they are both worshipped as the God of Vesta.

3, ghosts and gods or essence of change said

"Rites? Rituals" Ao, the old woman's sacrifice also Zheng Xuan note: the old woman, the first cook also. Special Sacrifice Feeding Rites" pawn food and sacrifice Cuan, Yong Cuan Kong Yingda oversight: Cuan, the old woman's sacrifice also. ...... This sacrifice first cooking, not the fire god. Is that the stove God is neither the fire God, nor the inventor of the stove, but a master of the kitchen cooking affairs of the goddess - the first cook, because cooking must be operated on the stove, so her sacrifice for the performance of the sacrifice of the stove. The General Literature Study (《文献通考》) explains that Zao Zao was the goddess of cooking. Suburb Society I9" explains the name of the division of the goddess of the stove: the division of the life of the star under the food on earth, the division of the condemnation over the small gods. Zhuangzi? Dasheng chapter" recorded the Duke of Qi Huan asked the emperor sue Ao: in the end there is no ghost? Prince told Ao replied: Yes. There are ghosts under the water called 'Crawl', there are ghosts in the stove called 'Bun'. Western Jin Dynasty Sima Biao Note: The god of the stove, whose shape is like a beautiful woman, wearing red clothes, the name of the bun also. There are also those who call the god of the stove Song Wuji (宋无忌), the fire spirit. The Three Kingdoms? Wei Zhi? Guan chariot ": Wang Ji family bitch woman gave birth to a son, fell to the ground and then walked in the stove. chariot said: straight Song Wuji demon, will be into the stove. Historical Records? Feng Chan book" Song Wu Ji Sima Zhen Suoyin: "White Zephyr chart": "the essence of the fire is said to be Song Wu Ji. About the god of the stove is a couple (that is, zaogong zaomu) of the popular beliefs, but also have this. Jing Chu Shou Shi Ji (The Record of the Years and Times of Jing Chu): The Zaoshen's family name is Su Jili, and the woman's family name is Wang Tuan ('Tuan' is not '搏', '博', but originally '抟')颊. Tuan') cheeks. Refuting the Different Meanings of the Five Classics: "Zhu Rong was a zao, surnamed Su and Jili, and the woman was Wang and Tuan ('Tuan' originally, not 'Bo' and '博'与'搏')cheeks." (驳五经异义). The Jade Candle Canon XII cites the Book of Zao: the Zao god's family name is Su Jili, and the woman's name is Bo Cheek. The Zaowangjing (Classic of the King of the Zaos) says that the god Zao under heaven is honored by the old mother who planted the fire. Some people believe that this is the origin of the popular belief in the grandmother Zaojun.

4, the death of God said

"Youyang miscellany? Nogao record" cloud, the God of the stove surnamed Zhang list, also known as Kui, the word Zi Guo, looks like a beautiful woman. His wife small word Qing Ji. Born six daughters, are named Tsa Chia. Legend has it that Zhang Shan is a love-stricken prodigal son, because of shame to see the repudiation of his wife and drilled into the stove, became the god of the stove. According to the legend, there was a corrupt official in ancient times, who had the most gluttonous nature and had to find delicious food to eat every day, which was too much for the people to bear. After a fairy illusion of the folk will slap him to the pot, into the stove king, can only see people eat food.

5, the evolution of poor cicadas said

This is a contemporary scholar Yuan Ke's insights. He formerly cited "Zhuangzi? Dasheng chapter" Zao has a bun hand analysis. Bun is an anagram or pseudo character, "Guangya? The interpretation of the insect ":, the cicada is also. Dadailei? Emperor system chapter ": Zhuan Xu production poor ...... > >