Author | Confucian Jun
Source | Rufeng Everyone (ID: rufengdajia)
Anchor | Fan Deng Reading · Yan Jiao
The Small Year is the prelude to the Spring Festival.
After a small year is a big year, and a small year means that the Spring Festival has come.
In the north, it is generally the 23rd year of the Waxing Moon, and in the south, it is generally the 24th of the Waxing Moon.
Legend has it that on this day, the Emperor of the Stove will go to heaven to repay the good and evil in the world to the Jade Emperor, and return to the bottom of the Stove at night of Chinese New Year's Eve to reward the good and punish the evil, and bless and reduce disasters.
So people prepare offerings on this day to send the god of vesta to heaven, the most important of which is candy, sweet and sticky, so that the mouth of the king of the stove is glued to heaven, and he can't say bad things.
King Stove was the lowest-ranking immortal, but he went deep into thousands of households.
For thousands of years, there have been many legends about the king of the stove.
The "Youyang Miscellaneous Tricks and Nuogao Records" records that the name of the king of the stove is Zhang Dan, his wife Ding Xiang is filial to his mother-in-law, and the family is happy and harmonious.
Later, Zhang Shan made a fortune in business, empathized with the prostitute Begonia, and went home to take a break from cloves.
The begonia who married into the door was delicious and lazy, and accidentally burned up the family property, leaving Zhang Shan to remarry someone else.
Zhang Shan had to wander and beg, and on the twenty-third day of the lunar month, he inadvertently begged for food to go to Ding Xiang's house.
Ashamed and embarrassed after being recognized, he slipped into the stove door and died.
The Jade Emperor remembered that he was his own family, so he made him the King of Stove.
【Reading Jun said】
The ancients said: Rich and easy to wife, noble and easy to friends.
That is to say, after a person is rich, because his life is comfortable, he has money in his hands, and he thinks of luxury and luxury, and some things that he did not think about before are moved.
Disgusted with his wife is not pleasing to the eye, he wants to change to a young and beautiful.
But most of these people are trying to make money, and most of the men who can't resist the temptation have no good end.
"The knowledge of the poor must not be forgotten, and the wife of the chaff does not go to church."
A wife who works with you and experiences ups and downs is the most precious and cannot be abandoned.
Vesta was originally the imperial cook in the Heavenly Palace, and one year, the Queen Mother's birthday, Vesta made a lot of delicacies, and the gods and immortals ate with relish.
To make the last dessert crystal chrysanthemum cake, he made it so tempting that he couldn't help but eat it all.
The Jade Emperor waited for half a day without seeing dessert, only to know that the Vesta God himself had eaten all of it, so he breathlessly demoted the Vesta God to the mortal world.
However, the new imperial chef always made food that did not meet the appetite of the Jade Emperor.
Li Tianwang offered a plan: "You find a reason to let him come back once a year." ”
So the Jade Emperor decreed: "Remember the merits of the vesta god in the past, make him the god of vesta, record the good and evil of the people, and report to me in the heavenly court on the twenty-third day of the 23rd month of the waxing moon every year." ”
Since then, the god of vesta has conjured up countless doppelgangers, sitting in the stove rooms of thousands of households, working diligently.
Man is not Yao Shun, who can be perfect.
No one is perfect, and everyone makes mistakes sometimes.
But as long as you know how to repent, a person can get everyone's respect and recognition.
Learn to restrain yourself and restrain your desires.
Even if you make a mistake, as long as you know how to correct it, it is not too late.
In ancient times, there was a reader, once after getting drunk, vainly tried to flirt with the maid in the family, but the maid resolutely refused to comply and struggled to break free from the entanglement of the master.
That night, his wife woke him up:
"I just dreamed of a star god, wearing a square scarf, wearing a black robe, riding a fast horse, carrying a book with him, and he pointed at me with his hand and ran away."
The reader was immediately horrified, and quickly mated the maid to a good family.
After that, the reader explained to his wife:
"You dreamed about the Stove King before, because I had flirted with the maid, but fortunately she resisted resolutely.
Although this was not done, I already had evil thoughts in my heart, so I was recorded by the god Vesta. Confess to you today. ”
Folk believe that the King of the Stove has the duty to reward good and punish evil.
Every year, the situation of this family must be reported to the heavenly court in order to send blessings and disasters.
There are gods three feet above the head. This reverence is not superstition, nor is it ignorance.
Rather, a person must have standards and scales in his heart.
Fear of heaven and earth, ghosts, gods, and fear of the hearts of the world's people, no matter when and where, can not be violated.
Legend has it that there is a child with thick eyebrows and big eyes, a keel dragon body, and an emperor's order.
The Jade Emperor arranged for the Land Duke to carry him across the river to school every day and secretly protect him.
When the child's mother learned of this, she immediately became flying, "When my son becomes emperor, who is sorry for me, ask my son to clean up after you!" ”
While she was chanting, she knocked on the pot stove, and the stove king's head was about to explode.
Finally, on the twenty-third day of the lunar month, the King of The Stove went to heaven to complain to the Jade Emperor. The Jade Emperor was furious and revoked her son's qualifications as a prospective emperor.
The water is low into the sea, and the man is low into the king.
Only when a person understands humility can he carry the blessings of his body.
Once arrogant and rude, if you act as a blessing, sooner or later you will usher in disaster.
There are people outside the people, and there is heaven outside the sky.
Be humble, there's always no harm.
In the Ming Dynasty Chen Jiru's "Records of Seeing and Hearing", such a story is recorded:
In the Ming Dynasty, there was a soldier Shangshu named Zhang Yue.
One year, when the Zhang family received the stove god, the domestic dog crouching on the stove suddenly fell from the stove and cried out for his life.
The whole family said that this was an ominous omen, but Zhang Yue did not move, calmly said to the family: "It is not strange to see the strange, it is strange to be self-defeating." "The stove was as good as it was.
After that, his family was indeed safe and sound, and nothing unfortunate happened.
The ancients said: Don't do bad things in your life, and you are not afraid of ghosts knocking on the door in the middle of the night.
Good and evil karma are retribution.
As long as a person is open in his heart, naturally there is nothing to be afraid of.
During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, there was a Yu Gong who thought that he often did good deeds, no major transgressions, but everywhere was not smooth, one year was not as good as a year, and thus resented the injustice of heaven.
From the age of forty, every year on the twenty-third day of the lunar month, he prayed to the Emperor of the Stove and asked to be conveyed to the Jade Emperor on his behalf.
It was not until the age of forty-seven that Chinese New Year's Eve, the King of The Stove finally appeared, pointing out that Yu Gong was only trying to make a false name, empty of a table of good deeds, but without the sincerity of doing good.
Yu Gong was ashamed and embarrassed, and since then he has changed his past wrongs, no longer complains about the world, and always acts good without letting people know.
His fate gradually changed, and all five blessings were complete.
Kindness is said to be big or small, but there is a difference between truth and falsehood.
As long as a person is sincere and good, even the smallest good deeds are praiseworthy.
If good deeds are exchanged for benefits, they can only be rejected.
The ancients said: Grace does not seek retribution, and there is no remorse with others. Everyone respects it, the Heavenly Dao blesses it, and The Blessings follow.
By accumulating good deeds, the Heavenly Dao will naturally protect, eliminate disasters and reduce disasters, and bring blessings.
The above six stories, although only legends, contain great wisdom in the world.
After the small year, the big year is more lively, and every household is full of joy and welcomes good fortune.
Click "watching", and the reader wishes everyone a happy New Year and an auspicious Year of the Tiger!
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