What does Zigu mean?

Zigu means the name in Ce Shen mythology. Also known as Zigu, KengSan.

Zigu is the god of toilets in China folklore, and also a daughter-in-law, toilet aunt, aunt Mao, aunt pit and girl pit. People all say that he can be a prophet. He often worships God at home and divines things.

Whenever the Lantern Festival, housewives will greet Ce Shen. Speaking of customs, it's strange. The day before the festival, a dung dustpan was prepared, decorated with hairpin rings and flowers, and another silver hairpin was inserted in the mouth of the dustpan and placed beside the pit toilet for worship. At the same time, set up another confession, light candles and incense, and let the children salute them.

Judging from the activities of welcoming Zi Gu in various places, Zi Gu's duty is not to take care of other people's toilets, but to take care of people's good and bad luck and have fun with others.

Ce Shen, also known as Zigu God, had faith in the Six Dynasties. Ce Shen, but Zigu is not the main toilet, but a prophet. Therefore, people in China often wear clothes and flowers with dustpans, plants or chopsticks, and ask God to send them. Women tell their worries or pray for their unmarried daughters.

Although all this is a legend, Su Dongpo, a writer in the Song Dynasty, wrote an essay "Fairy Questions and Answers", which vividly described his conversation with his daughter-in-law, and later said that she had met her in Guangzhou, saying that she was brilliant, excellent in poetry and lyrics, and detached in language. But later generations think that these accounts may not be credible.

According to legend, he is someone else's concubine, a jealous woman, and fights with filth every time. On the fifteenth day of the first month, he died of anger. Therefore, the world creates its shape by its day and welcomes it in the toilet or pigsty at night. See Liu's Bieyuan in Southern Song Dynasty, Volume V, and Liang Zonggu's Chronicle of Jingchu in Southern Dynasties.