The small year is a festival for the sacrifice of the king, usually on the 23rd day of the waxing moon, or the twenty-fourth day of the waxing moon. After the New Year, the footsteps of the Spring Festival are getting closer and closer, and every household must be busy preparing for the New Year.
Here are two legends about the King of Vesta, see if you know?
1. The legend of King ZhangZao
Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a family surnamed Zhang, there were two brothers, the older brother was a plasterer, and the younger brother was a painter. The brother's best job is the pan stove, and people give him the nickname "Zhang Zao Wang". Zhang Zaowang is good at mediating family conflicts, and the villagers who have an affair will find him to solve. King Zhang Zao lived to be seventy years old, and died on the twenty-third day of the waxing moon.
After the death of King Zhang Zao, the family was chaotic, and several daughters-in-law were clamoring to separate the family, and the painter thought of a way. On the day of the first anniversary of The death of King Zhang Zao, he painted a portrait of his eldest brother and hung it on the wall of the stove in the middle of the night. Then the whole family woke up, saying that the eldest brother had appeared, and when everyone went to the kitchen to see, the portrait on the wall was indeed exactly the same as that of King Zhang Zao, and the whole family was stunned. The painter said, "Everyone has become an immortal, and has been named by the Jade Emperor as the King of the Nine Heavens Eastern Chef Order." The eldest brother knew that you were making a fuss about splitting up the family, and was very unhappy, and was ready to enlighten the Jade Emperor and punish you. ”
After the family listened, one by one, they were frightened and uninjured, and quickly knelt down and prostrated their heads, offering Zhang Zaowang's favorite dessert on the stove top and begging for forgiveness. Since then, the family contradictions of the Zhang family have been lifted. When the neighbors heard about it, they also came to the painter to ask for the portrait of King Zhang Zao, and they all hung it on the stove of their own home. Over time, the folk have formed the custom of sacrificing the stove king in a small year.
Second, the legend of the stove king and the stove king's grandmother
A long time ago, the weather was in a drought, the grain was not harvested, and the people had no food to eat, and they were miserable. After the Jade Emperor received the news, he sent the Queen Mother's mother to the human world to inspect the disaster, and the jade emperor's younger daughter was bored in heaven and came to the human world with her mother. By chance, I met a young man who burned a stove for people, and made a lifelong decision, determined to live with the young man in the mortal world.
When the Jade Emperor found out, he was furious, how could his little princess marry a poor boy from the mortal world? It was a shame for him. So he ordered that the little daughter should stay in the human world forever and never have to come back. As soon as the Queen Mother heard this, she was anxious and quickly interceded for her daughter. The Jade Emperor had no choice but to change his speech and say, "Didn't that poor boy help people burn the stove every day?" Then let them two be the King of stoves and the grandmothers of king of stoves in the human world." However, the two of them could only return to the Heavenly Palace once a year on the twenty-third day of the lunar month. Since then, people have called the young man who burned the fire "King Stove", and his wife, that is, the younger daughter of the Jade Emperor, became "Grandma of the King of Stove".