What was the original name of Kitchen God?

Kitchen God, also known as Kitchen God, is the lowest-ranking fairy in myths and legends.

Legend has it that the original name of Kitchen God was Zhang Sheng. Before he became a kitchen god, he was also an ordinary person. Like most people, he is married and married. But after marriage, he spent all the money in his family, became a beggar on the street, and his wife left him.

Begging turned out to be his ex-wife's house one day. Seeing his ex-wife, he was so ashamed that he plunged into the bottom of the stove and burned himself to death.

After Zhang Sheng's death, the Jade Emperor saw that he was ashamed, indicating that he had the intention of repentance and felt that this person was not bad after all. What's more, his family (the Jade Emperor is also surnamed Zhang) wanted to do some errands for him. Thinking that he died at the bottom of the pot, he gave his grandfather the position of Kitchen God!

Speaking of the official position of Kitchen God, it was only in charge of the production of human diet at first, and then it gradually began to monitor human sins and take charge of the fate of the family.

On the 23rd night of the twelfth lunar month, Kitchen God will report the situation to the Jade Emperor. In order to make the Kitchen God say more good things about himself in front of the Jade Emperor, people will make kitchen candy on the day when the Kitchen God goes to heaven, and want to stick the mouth of the Kitchen God with sweet candy. Therefore, the 23rd day of the lunar calendar (65438+February) has become a traditional folk festival in China, which is also called the New Year Festival.

What does the Kitchen God report to the sky?

You know, Kitchen God basically stays in the cooking place. In ancient times, most chefs were women at home. Women love to gossip, but their parents seldom talk at home. What does it matter who?

The kitchen god hid in the kitchen stove and listened. He not only listened, but also wrote it down. Every year on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the Kitchen God will go to heaven and report to the Jade Emperor what someone has done for a year.

The Jade Emperor will punish those who do bad things according to the report of Kitchen God. It is said that people who do small bad things need to live less 100 days, and people who do big bad things need to live less than 300 days. Old people may watch every household cook delicious food every day. He can only watch but not eat. He is mentally unbalanced, so he especially likes to snitch.

Therefore, when reporting, someone always picks up bad things, so people have to try their best to offer him food and drink, hoping that it will make people eat short and say more good things. It's called offering sacrifices to the gods.

So some places want to eat jiaozi, and I hope that the mouth of the kitchen god is as sweet as honey. In some places, it is not only sweet to eat mash, but also tastes like wine. I hope Prince Zhao gets drunk and forgets the bad things he wants to tell.

Many places should eat stove candy, also known as sesame candy and kwantung candy. I hope this sweet and sticky candy can stick to Prince Zhao's mouth, so that he can't report to the Jade Emperor.

Off-year has different concepts and dates in different places. Most areas in the north are on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, and some areas are on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month. In Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, the 24th of the twelfth lunar month and the night before New Year's Eve are all called off-year.