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Old Stove Grandpa went to heaven

Author: Song Jiansong

Legend has it that the Stove King is the head of our family. As far as the gods are concerned, the seniority of the Stove King is the oldest and most pro-people god. On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, every household ate dumplings, set off firecrackers, killed chickens, paid tribute to the old stove, and sent the old stove to heaven for a meeting. Chickens are stove horses, able to soar through the clouds and drive the fog.

Once upon a time, there was a man in my village named Zhang Tielin, and on the evening of the twenty-third day of the 23rd lunar month, he used chickens to pay tribute to the old stove master, and he said: Honor, I advocate that the king of the stove, if you have food, you will eat first, and if there is something you prophet, please go to heaven to say things, and go down to the mortal world to send auspiciousness, to ensure that the wind and rain here are smooth, and the people are happy and healthy.

By the next year he had no chickens, so he used a duck to pay tribute to the old stove. He said: Old Stove Grandpa's original surname is Zhang, others use chickens, we use ducks, don't look at running late, you can swim in the mud and water.

In the third year, the weather was very dry, the trees did not harvest, he did not have anything, to pay tribute to the old stove, he used two vegetable nests and a green onion to pay tribute to the old stove. He said: Two nests and a green onion, send you to the heavenly palace, you always please tell him, just say that Tielin is not good this year. The weather was dry and there was no harvest. Ask the old rain to have a good harvest in the coming year.