What do you have to prepare for sending the stove to heaven?

Stove delivery is mostly held at dusk and night. Family.

Go to the stove room first, set up the table, and ask the king of the stove who is set up in the shrine on the stove wall.

Offering incense and offering the fruit of the stove. There are red balls, white balls, hemp balls, oil fruits, inch gold sugar, foot bone sugar, white cross-cutting, black cross-cutting, etc., or 8 colors, or 12 colors, and they are sweet and sticky when you eat them. After the supply is completed, the "Nine Days East Chef Order" will be pasted for a year.

The statue of the god "Stove Jun was burned along with the paper tied horse, and he prayed to him in the Jade Emperor."

There are many good things in front of you, bless the family with peace, "the stove is sealed, and there is no disaster in the four seasons". The sacrificial stove fruit is eaten by family members, mainly children, "after eating the sacrificial stove fruit, the foot bones are healthy". On the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, he had to bring the Zaojun home again, that is, to paste the newly purchased statue of the Zaojun on the stove.

Because the Stove King must first count the roster in the lower realm, all family members have to go home for the New Year to pray for the good fortune of the Stove King to the whole family.

When sending the stove, there are still several beggars in some places, dressed up in disguise, singing the song of sending the stove to the house, and dancing the dance of the stove, called "sending the stove god, in exchange for food." Xiao Nian is the day of Chinese folk sacrifice stoves. It is said that on this day, the Lord of the Stove will go to heaven to report the good and evil of this family to the Jade Emperor, so that the Jade Emperor will reward and punish.

When sacrificing to the stove, the Kanto sugar (sugar melon) must be melted with fire and applied to the mouth of the king of the stove, so that he cannot be in the Jade Emperor.

Say bad things in front of you. "Men do not worship the moon, women do not sacrifice to the stove" custom, so the sacrifice to the king of the stove is limited to men.

Since Chinese basically eat rice, cooked food is generally not easy to preserve and must be cooked at any time. Unlike Western edible bread, it can be baked many at once for preservation and consumption. Therefore, for Chinese, "chai" (fuel) is the first important of the "seven things" in life (firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea), without fuel, even if there is basic food, there is no way to eat.

In the West, it is generally enough to have only one bread oven in a village, but in China every family must have a stove.

Because each family has a stove, so there is a legend that the Jade Emperor stationed a supervisor in each family - the god of the stove (Si Ming Stove Jun, Stove Jun, Stove Wang, Stove King), to supervise and inspect what the family did in a year, to the twenty-third day of the lunar month, the God of the Stove will go to heaven to report to the Jade Emperor, the Jade Emperor according to the report to decide whether the next year is a reward or punishment for the family, the next year New Year's Stove God will come back to continue to supervise the actions of the family. Sacrificial Stove Festival.

This day is actually a festival for families to send off the god of the stove to heaven.

In Dongfu, on the evening of the 23rd day of the lunar month, when the stove is sent to the stove, the dumplings filled with fried sugar, dates, bean paste and sugar melons, sticky cakes, and roosters are sacrificed to the stove king, which is intended to be sweet and sweet, and send it to heaven, so that he can "go on the 23rd, come on the first and fifth days of the new year", "say good things from heaven, and return to the palace to be auspicious".

1. The folk customs of the stove are not the same, but they are generally burning incense, offering fruits and vegetables, wine and food, as well as paper money or ingots.

2. First of all, put the fruit and wine on the table, invite him to eat before the god of the stove goes to heaven, after the offering, light the incense and then invite the portrait of the king of the stove from the wall, together with the paper money prepared in advance, take it to the outside of the courtyard and burn it, and set off firecrackers at the same time. It means to let his old man go to heaven to say good things, leave quickly, and then wait for him to return to the palace to be auspicious.

3. Then the way to offer incense is generally to light three incense sticks in the incense burner in front of the statue of the god of the stove, and then light the second group when it is almost burned, generally three groups of incense are burned, and some people can also only burn one group. Wax can be or without, there is no special requirement, in some places at night in the yard to pile sesame straw and pine branches, and then the year-old stove statue is invited out of the shrine, along with paper horses and forage, and set on fire. The courtyard was lit up by fire, and the family prostrated around the fire, praying as they burned.

4. Don't think that the ceremony of sacrificing the Vesta God is over, you still invite the Vesta God down, so on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, that is, when the new year is about to begin, you will also welcome the Lord of the Stove to return from heaven. Legend has it that on Chinese New Year's Eve, the god Vesta will lead the gods to come to earth for the New Year, so there must be a ceremony of "receiving the stove" and "receiving the gods" on that day. After receiving the god Vesta, it was the turn to worship the ancestors and ancestors, and then began to eat Chinese New Year's Eve, and the family was reunited for the New Year.

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The position of the god of the stove was originally to be in charge of the preparation of food in the world. About before the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the god of the stove had the function of supervising the evils of the world and controlling the blessings and misfortunes of a family. The "Micro Purpose" of Ge Hong's "Hug Puzi Inner Chapter" of the Eastern Jin Dynasty said:

On the night of the moon, the god of the stove also went to heaven to accuse the white man. 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 it is three days."

There is a sentence in the "East Kitchen Si Ming Lantern Instrument", which was written about the time of the Yuan and Ming dynasties, "The god of the stove has a heavy duty and the right of the people to rely on him", "He is the messenger of the seven yuan in the sky, and he serves everything in the court", "The yin and yang of the master are all cultivated, although good and evil; However, right and wrong must be recorded". The Qing Dynasty's "Jing Zao Quanshu" said that the stove Jun received a family of incense and protected a family of Kangtai.

Investigate the good and evil of a family, and play the merits of a family. Every Gengshen day, the Jade Emperor is played, and the end of the month is counted. Those who have a lot of merit, after three years, the heavens will descend on the blessed life; If there are too many, after three years, the heavens will fall.

It is customary to go to heaven on the 24th day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar every year, and the god of the stove goes to heaven to report the merits and demerits of the world, and to determine the blessings and misfortunes of people. Therefore, it is customary in the north to worship the stove monarch on the evening of the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month and burn incense to send it. The southern custom is to worship the stove king on the evening of the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, and burn incense to send it.

In the old days, there was also a difference between the gentry's family sending the stove on the 23rd and the common people's home sending the stove on the 24th.

Worship the stove king with sugar ingots, fried rice candy, peanut candy, sesame candy and glutinous rice dumplings, etc., in order to plug the mouth of the stove god, do not talk about the sins of the world, the world is called "the heavens say good things, the lower world to keep peace". After the sacrifice is completed, the old paper horse of the stove monarch who has been enshrined for many years is removed from the stove and incinerated together with the paper ingots to show that the god of the stove is in heaven. When receiving the god on Chinese New Year's Eve, the gift of receiving the god Vesta is performed again, and after worshipping the god Vesta, a new paper horse is pasted on the stove.

There are people who worship the stove king, that is, the stove king, the stove god, the god of the stove, the god of the order, and some are the first day of the new year, the fifteenth, and the incense. Some are incense worshippers every day, at night, and my mother, that is, every night, incense is offered to worship the god of the stove. ,, Taoism calls the god of the stove as:

Nine Heavens East Chef Commander Zhenjun. ,, Nine Heavens Taiyi Mansion Junzao King God. , Stove God Christmas is the second day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar. , on the 23rd day of the lunar month, the so-called: Heaven says good things, and the lower world keeps peace.

The god of the stove is the ** sent by the Jade Emperor to the world to investigate the good and evil of a family. The god of the stove attendants two gods on the left and right, one holds the pot of goodness and the other holds the jar of evil, and keeps the record of the family's behavior in the jar at any time, and reports to the Jade Emperor at the end of the year with these jars full of records. The 24th day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar is the day when the stove monarch leaves the world to report to the Jade Emperor, so every household must send the stove monarch, that is, the custom of Xie Zao.

At night. The twenty-third night of December of the lunar calendar every year is the "Stove Day", which is also the important day for the original Stove God and other gods who observe people's words and deeds in the world, and return to Heaven once a year to report the good and evil in the world to the Jade Emperor, so as to determine our good fortune and evil in the coming year. The stove delivery time is usually after dinner or after dark.

The god of the stove, also known as the king of the stove, the king of the stove, and the full name of the king of the stove, also known as the East Kitchen Si Ming Jiuling Yuan Wang Dingfu Shenjun. Xie Zao, also known as sending stoves, is a consistent tradition of the Chinese, in order to pray for good luck in the new year, and all wishes come true. The twenty-third day of the month of Brother Liang is commonly known as the small year, and this day is the day when the oak attacks the "Stove King goes to heaven", so it is necessary to sacrifice to the God of the Stove.

At the same time, it is also to thank the god of the stove for his protection of us in the previous year.

Of course, it's not necessarily, in fact, you know, there is no stove in the real world, he exists in the previous generation of old people and some modern people's ideological world, and many of our old people in the previous generation do not believe in stove king, this is just a culture, you can choose to worship, or not, just like some innocuous little superstitions, to do or not to do only up to you.

In fact, this is an ancient legend from the town of Yin in China, just like the current horoscope says, what is your constellation item today, maybe you just have something to look forward to happen on this day, you may go to buy a lucky object as soon as you are happy, when this thing does come true, you will be grateful for the small item that brings you good luck, even if you understand that it does not play any key role, if this thing deviates from your expectations, you may throw it in the trash and blame it with all the fault, It feels like you're so stupid to put your hopes in an object, but you're probably going to do it again next time.

Whether it's a lucky thing or a stove, we all hope to get what we want to achieve through it, and this stove can also become a dishwasher, a smoker, as long as it can bring you what you want. Therefore, you can go to worship the stove king, because this does not represent feudal superstition, in other words, it can also be said to respect the traditional culture of the Chinese nation. Or, if you don't worship it, it's fine, because you know in your heart that it's meaningless.

Whether you worship or not, first of all, you must understand that my worship is not because I am superstitious, but just a small spiritual sustenance, and whatever decision you make at this time is okay.

Legend in ancient times, the god of the stove sits in the middle of the kitchen stove in the people's house during the year, records the life of people Zeli, good and evil behavior, and stays until the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month every year, then goes to heaven to report to the Jade Emperor, so people want to use sticky and sweet stove sugar to smear the mouth of the prince of the sweet stove, so that it "says good things in the sky, and keeps peace in the ground".