The legend of the small year sacrifices Zao Shen Zao Shen is who say more

Folk rhyme says: "twenty-three, sugar melons sticky", tomorrow is the twenty-third of Lunar New Year, the annual sugar melons debut of the small year, that is, Zaos Festival , the day every family to worship the Zao Shen master, the legend is that the Zao Shen master in the earth to sit down for a whole year, the day to go to the sky to report on the duties of the people in the lower realm of the year, good and bad deeds.

People are very happy to see that they have been given a chance to learn more about the world.

People in order to make the Zao Wang master, "the sky say good things", and ask for more blessings in the coming year back, so the sugar melon to the Zao God statue to wipe his mouth, hoping that his old man on the sky sweet mouth, say less not. Then the Secretary in charge of the thousands of households in the curse of the God of the stove in the end who is it, folk traditionally there are several ways to say, let old calendar for you to introduce.

The origin of the God of the stove is very early, the Shang Dynasty has begun to worship in Chinese folk, the full name of its position is "East Kitchen Division order Jiu Ling Yuan Wang Ding Fu Shen Jun (or Guifu Xingjun Li Ji Zhenqing East Kitchen Division order of the Heavenly Father)", commonly known as "Zaojun", or "Zaojun", or "Zaojun", or "Zaojun". or "Zaojun Gong", "Sifu Zhenjun", "Nine Heavenly East Kitchen Smoke Master", "House Protecting Heavenly Dignity" or "Zao Wang". "Zao Wang".

Because of the vastness of China, there are many different versions of Zao Wang. In the north of the country, he is called "Zao Wang Wang", and Luan Men honors him as one of the three benefactors, the gods of the kitchen. The name of this deity is not only long, about its origin is a lot of legends.

Said that a kitchen helper

Legend, the Jade Emperor's daughter is very concerned about current events in the civil society, one day from the sky to the ground, a glance at a burning poor boy, then decided to marry him. The Jade Emperor, of course, disagreed and the two had a big fight. The little fairy resolutely went to the mortal world and lived with the lad. At this time, the Queen Mother couldn't see past it and mediated from it, making this poor son-in-law a Zao Wang Wang. The Jade Emperor still had to keep his temper a bit and only allowed these two to return to the Heavenly Palace once a year.

Said two: the king of the country to see the stove

The Qing Dynasty "things original will": "The yellow emperor made stove, died as the god of the stove." The Ming Dynasty's Zhou Li said, "Zhuan Xu's son said Lai, Zhu Rong, sacrificed as the god of the stove." Let the Yan Emperor, the Yellow Emperor and Zhu Rong such a big name to be the king of the stove.

Statement 3: After killing himself, he stood on the ground and became immortal

However, according to the "Zhang's Tongzong World Genealogy", King Zaos is the eleventh grandson of Huangdi's fifth son, Wangong, and his name is Zhang Shan. Youyang Miscellany Chopping Board - Nogao Records, "Zao Shen's surname is Zhang list (or Zen), also known as Kui, the word Ziguo, looks like a beautiful woman. His wife's small character Qing Ji."

Zhang Shan is a prodigal son, abandoned his wife and gradually dispersed his family's wealth, becoming a beggar. Once a woman was taken in, at the stove side of the meal to see that this is his wife, because of shame on the head in the stove to kill himself, after the death of the Jade Emperor (the original name of Zhang Bainu) a look is a family, and repentance, it sealed a stove king to him.

But Zhang Zao Wang's wife IQ is not low, in another similar version, his name is Zhang Zu, zha in the stove after the death, his wife remembered the old love, often in the stove to worship him, and claimed that it is to worship the "God of the stove".

Said four: the kitchen a shot, deformation of the sealing of the official

Legend has it that in ancient times there was a royal kitchen won the Emperor's favor, sealing him to do a county official. After this corrupt official took office, in order to satisfy their appetites, the two families every day to all households to eat, provoked the people's anger. There is a strong man named "Zhang DaBaShi", lied to the magistrate couple said his home made the dragon and phoenix meat, the magistrate couple gladly go, just into the kitchen, was slapped on the wall, into two paintings.

The emperor knew about this, but also cried and laughed, so that the folk enshrined the county official couple to do Zao Wang, Zao Wang grandmother. In another version, the strong man's name is Zhao Daqi.

Suggestion 5: The Qing official was enshrined

Legend has it that the god of the stove is the Qing official Su Jili who was enshrined by the people, and in the TV series "Mulan New Series", this Su Qing official was portrayed as a hilarious character.

Said six: Zao Ma, cockroach

There is also a theory that Zao Wang is actually an insect called Zao Ma (scientific name Zao Zao katydid), there is also said to be cockroaches. Famous writer Wang Zengqi introduced Jiangsu folk customs, but also said that Zao Wang's mount is a red dragonfly, but also riding a paper horse.