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The Spring Festival and New Year are a major traditional festival in China, and there are many feng shui habits from the past to the present, but after all, they are all red tape, so they are slowly ignored by the new generation of young people, and even slowly faded. But more or less understood. From the first day of the Lunar New Year to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, it is the Spring Festival and New Year's period, and every day is a different custom.

The fourth day of the first lunar month is the day to welcome the king of the stove.

The fourth day of the first lunar month, also known as the sheep day, is the day to welcome the god of the stove back to the people. "Stove God", also known as the Stove King, Stove King, Stove King, the god of food in ancient Chinese myths and legends. The origin of the god of the stove is very early, and the Shang Dynasty has begun to worship among the Han people.

In the Qin and Han dynasties, it was listed as one of the five main rituals, and the five gods of the door, the well god, the toilet god and the middle slip god were jointly responsible for the safety of the family. The reason why the god of the stove is respected is not only because he is in charge of people's food, but also because he is also an official who examines the good and evil of a family. According to the folk saying, on the fourth day of the first lunar month, the king of the stove wants to check the household registration, so every household must stay at home, prepare rich fruits, burn incense, light candles and set off firecrackers to show respect.

Sheep Day is an ancient Han traditional festival. On the fourth day of the first lunar month, legend has it that Nuwa made sheep, on this day, people can not kill sheep, if the weather is good, it means that in this year, the sheep will be raised very well, and the sheep will have a good harvest. Praying for the ancestors and gods to bless the family in the New Year, the wind and rain are smooth, the five grains are abundant, the six animals are prosperous, auspicious, and the year is safe, reflecting the love, yearning and pursuit of life of the industrious Han working people.

On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, we should pick up five roads, throw the poor, and do not slaughter sheep on the day of sheep. Connecting the five roads, this refers to the five ways of the gods, and later evolved into the five ways of the god of wealth. In the old days, after the Spring Festival holiday, merchants generally received the God of Wealth on the fourth night of the Lunar New Year, and opened the market on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, in order to be auspicious.

At three o'clock in the afternoon on the fourth day of the new year, the preparations for the ceremony of receiving the fifth road began until the evening.

It ends at nine or ten o'clock. The first is to set the table, which is generally put together with two tables of eight immortals. The first table is fruits such as oranges and sugar cane, which means that the wealth is broad and the life is sweet; The second table is pastry, which means high and evergreen; The three tables are the main seats, for the whole pig, the whole chicken, the whole fish, and the ingots soup.

Half of the table is rice, noodles, vegetables, a bowl of roadhead rice inserted in a green onion, the green onion tube inserted a millennium red, meaning Xingchong, every year red. The wine and food on the third table must be served only after the five gods of wealth are connected. Everyone is full of hope for a fortune, and I hope that the God of Wealth can bring gold and silver treasures with him and make a fortune in the new year.

In fact, now to welcome the "Stove God" carries people's good wishes to pray for blessings and avoid disasters, and the expectation of smooth weather and abundant food and clothing in the new year, which is also the reason why it can be passed down. Today, the legend of the "God of the Stove" is still passed on from mouth to mouth like a fairy tale, adding a bit of festivity to the festival. Here's wishing you all a Happy New Year.

Because in ancient times, people hoped to be able to eat enough in this year, so the Lord of the Stove is also a very important god imagined by people.

This originally meant that the Lord of the Stove went to heaven to report the events of the previous year in the world, and returned to the world on the fourth day of the first lunar month, and then the people took the Lord of the Stove back to their homes, which means that the new year will continue to be happy and full of wind and rain

Because on the fourth day of the first lunar month, the god of the stove wants to check the household registration, and every household needs to place tributes in their homes, burn incense and light cannons to welcome the god of the stove, so as to express their family's respect.

I just knew that the fourth day of the first month is the day to receive the king of the stove, to keep the family to place the tribute, to welcome the king of the stove back to the people, in the past is also the boss to tell you whether to continue to work when the boss, if you do not invite you to sacrifice to the god of the stove, then it is to tell you that this year's work will not invite you, so that you can find another job, our local custom on this day is to go back to your mother's home.

On the fourth day of the first lunar month, there are rules for receiving the god of the stove as soon as possible, not traveling, and "worshipping sincerely".

According to custom, it is necessary to send God early in the morning, but to receive God in the afternoon. On the fourth day of the first lunar month, the god of the stove has to go back to the people to check the household registration, so every household must stay at home and should not go far. When burning incense, the god of the stove should be greeted home with reverence and respect.

The purpose of completing these rules of receiving the god of the stove is to be able to have a prosperous stove and abundant food and clothing in the new year.

The surname of the king of the stove is "Zhang", the name is "Shan", the word "Ziguo", also known as'Kui"。From the Tang Dynasty literati Duan Chengshi's notes** "Youyang Miscellaneous", this book has 20 volumes and 10 sequels, with complex and varied content.

There is a story about the Lord of the Stove in the book. Legend has it that there was a rich man named Zhang Dan, who had a wealthy family, but he was a prodigal son. When his parents were still alive, they helped marry a virtuous woman, Lilac, in the hope of controlling this loser, but it was useless.

Zhang Danxian's daughter-in-law nagged, divorced Lilac, and married a beautiful woman like a flower, Li. Lilac was left unsettled and wandered around, and was later taken in by an old woman. There was a young man in the old woman's family, and they were married, and because of Lilac and the young man's hard work, they soon became rich.

Although Zhang Dan's Li family is beautiful, he is lazy to eat, Zhang Dan will not be able to run a family, and his wife squandered it, and the Zhang family soon fell. Li saw that Zhang Shan's family had no money, so he relied on his beauty and remarried someone else.

The battered Zhang Dan lived in a mess all day long, and in the end he couldn't even afford to support the servants, and Zhang Dan was the only one left in the old mansion. One night there was a sudden fire, and when Zhang Shan noticed it in his sleep, the fire was already big, and he finally escaped, and his eyes were blind. With no home left, I can only beg for a living.

One day he begged in front of a house, and the host saw that his face was blue from the cold, and he gave him a bowl of hot noodle soup. Zhang Shan heard it, this is the voice of his ex-wife Lilac, ashamed, and died in front of the stove, fortunately Zhang Shan met the Jade Emperor who patrolled the Nether Realm, because he had the same surname as the Jade Emperor, so the Jade Emperor made him the god of the stove.

There is a popular saying in this way:"The prince of the stove is surnamed Zhang, and he staggered down to the countryside. Eat oil and salt rice during the day, and drink rotten noodle soup at night. ”

As an immortal who has settled in every household in the mortal world all the year round, he must return to heaven on the twenty-third day of the lunar month every year to "make a small report" to the Jade Emperor and tell the mortal people about the good and evil things they have done throughout the year. Ge Hong wrote in "Hug Puzi Inner Chapter": "On the night of the moon, the stove king also went to heaven for white crimes.

The big one seizes the discipline, and the one who takes the discipline is 300 days. The small one takes the count, and the one who counts is also three days. "If you make a big mistake, then you have to subtract 300 days of yang life, and if it is a small mistake, you will lose three days of life.

As the saying goes: "Twenty-three, the sugar melon is sticky, and the old man of the stove wants to go to heaven." In order to let the Lord of the Stove say more good things in front of the Jade Emperor, people will offer sticky and sweet sweets such as sugar melons, glutinous rice balls, maltose, peanut candy, etc., to block the mouth of the Lord of the Stove to "bribe" him not to say bad things.

In addition to sweets such as sugar melons and wine, the tribute of the sacrificial stove has a record of "smearing wine lees on the stove to make the priest drunk" in the Tang Dynasty's "Chronicles of the Second Year". People smeared the mouth of the Lord of the Stove with sake lees, which was called "Drunken Si Ming", which meant to get the Lord of the Stove drunk, make him drunk and dizzy, and make a few small reports to the Jade Emperor.

Because the official position of the Stove Lord is very small in the heavenly realm, but it is worshiped by people all the year round, so people prepare candy in order to stick to the mouth of the Lord of the Stove, so that he can say more good things when he reports his work, so as to get the gift of God.

The surname of the king of the stove is Zhang, and the twenty-third year is a small year, and it is also the day when the king of the stove goes to heaven to report his work.

I don't know, there is no such statement, this is a god, and there is no relevant record in the ancient Chinese mythological system.