Who is the surname of the king of the stove, there are different sayings since ancient times. In the chapter "Zhuangzi Dasheng", it is said: "The stove has a bun". Sima Biao explained: "The bun, the god of the stove, dressed in red, looks like a beauty. According to this account, the king of the stove was a young woman dressed in red. "Zhun Nanzi" said: "Emperor Yan made fire and died as the god of the stove." "The king of the stove has become a man again. Some people also said that the surname of the king of the stove was Su Ming Jili, and the woman who sat in the row with him was his spouse, whose surname was Wang Botou. Strange, it stands to reason that Zao Jun is a god who "jumped out of the Three Realms and is not in the Five Elements", how can he also have a family? Even when he goes to the world to carry out his mission, he has to bring his family with him.
The transformation of the king of the stove from a female to a male has obvious traces of the transition from a matrilineal society to a patrilineal society. It's a natural imagination. None of that is at that. According to legend, in ancient times, there were two brothers who lived in the same village, and the elder brother's house caught fire, and all the furniture was reduced to ashes, and even the worship stove king was burned. The younger brother offered fruits and meat to the king of the stove, and also made a big sacrifice on the ground with cigarettes and paper ashes. It was on the twenty-third day of the lunar month. The next year, my brother fell from the sky, his wife died, and the family was ruined. The younger brother had a son, and instead he became rich. Therefore, people say that the twenty-third day of the lunar month is the day when the king of the stove returns to the heavenly officials and reports to the Jade Emperor. The elder brother caused a catastrophe because he offended the gods, and the younger brother received the blessing of Qi Tian because he respected the gods. The king of the stove can't be provoked!
In order to buy a good stove king, people have to set up incense tables and kowtow to the stove on the 23rd day of the lunar month. Some people are afraid that the king of the stove will have a hard time walking in the sky, so they also paste some paper horses and paper carts and burn them and let the king of the stove ride. There are also people who boil Yi sugar for offerings, and Ann wants to stick to his mouth and prevent him from speaking ill of the world. In the end, after the Stove King went to heaven, whether he saw whether the Jade Emperor participated truthfully or pretended to be wrong, only God knows, and mortals can't understand. But one thing is certain: people regard the King of the Stove as a god who loves to eat small profits and take advantage of them. This completely personifies God.
With the inheritance of the custom of sacrificial stoves, there is a couplet that has also been handed down:
Heaven says good things
The Nether is auspicious
This is the ultimate goal of people bribing the Stove King, although the Stove King did not make a clear statement, but he was able to allow this couplet and his portrait to coexist for a long time and post it side by side, and it seems that he accepted it silently.