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Waxing Moon Twenty-Three
Sacrifice stove/sweep dust
GUO XIAO NIAN
2022.01.25
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The sacrificial stove is a very old folk custom in the mainland, which has appeared as early as the Xia Dynasty period, and the object of the sacrifice stove is the famous folk god of the mainland. The stove king mastered the misfortunes of the world and food, clothing, shelter and transportation, so it was very valued by people, and the sacrifice stove was later merged with the small year, becoming an important festival on the mainland, and the stove god also pinned Chinese the most beautiful yearning for life.
The so-called sacrificial stove is essentially to send the stove to the heavens. The god vesta "receives incense from a family, protects a kangtai family, examines the good and evil of a family, and plays a family's merits", and has the full right to supervise the family home. Therefore, in order to pray for blessings and disasters, people would pay homage to the king of the stove and put on offerings on the day of his ascension to heaven, offering good food and drink.
"According to ancient legend, on the twenty-fourth day of the month of La, the king of the stove wanted to say something to the heavens. The cloud car wind horse small stay, the family has cups and plates of abundant ceremonies. Pig's head is rotten and cooked double fish fresh, bean sand and pine powder bait ball. The boy offered his daughter to avoid, and the wine burned money stove Junxi. The son of a fights Against Jun Mo, and the cat and dog touch Jun Mo Mo. Send the king drunk and full to the gate of heaven, and the long and short do not return to the clouds. Begging for the return of the city of Scoring. Fan Chengda's "Sacrifice Stove Words" vividly embodies this scene.
Putian folk customs have both the preservation of the Central Plains culture and the characteristics of The Minyue culture. Therefore, there is also a fusion of commonality and individuality in the ritual of the stove. The date of the local sacrifice stove has the saying "official three people four", that is, the official eunuch family sent the god on the twenty-third day, and the ordinary people resigned the stove for twenty-four, and there were occasional changes.
The supplies of the sacrificial stove are abundant and casual, generally using vegetables, meat, fruits, sugar, and wine, and the place in Putian is typically added with a sticky stick or a sticky rice. This kind of balls or pastries made of glutinous rice has a sweet and sticky personality, which is similar to the maltose used in the north.
After the sacrifice of the stove, the portrait of the god of vesta should be torn off and placed on the tribute silver, large silver, and yuan treasure to be burned together, representing the sending of the god to heaven. Vesta portraits are generally painted on wooden boards, and are now mostly engraved with tiles: the stove king and the stove king grandmother sitting side by side in official clothes. On both sides, there are synonyms such as "white jade is born in the ding, gold is produced in the stove". Sending blessings to god often has such a thing as "say more good things, and don't talk about bad things".
The small year is the prelude to the big year
Once pulled apart
It's the overwhelming red
It is a celebration of the old and the new
Rejoice
chattering
Off
Know the old year and welcome the new year with a smile
GIFT FOR
Delicious
NEW YEAR
Source: Putian Cultural Tourism
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