"Many children and many blessings" and "children and grandchildren are full of halls" are the traditional Chinese concept of happiness for thousands of years. The incense of "sending children to the mother" is exuberant, and the problem of heirs is always the top priority in life. In the team of sending children, most of them are women, and there are full-time child senders, and there are also some concurrent ones, such as Bixia Yuanjun, Tianhou, Guanyin, etc., and there are also some famous male gods, such as zhang xian and maitreya. Among these gods, which belong to the combination of specialization and combination, there are also some local child-sending maidens, which have "divine functions", and enjoy the exuberant incense of a certain region, becoming local gods, such as The Golden Flower Lady, who is known as the goddess of fertility.
Lady Jinhua, also known as Golden Flower Lady, Golden Flower Lady, Sending Children Niangniang, etc., is a fertility goddess believed by the traditional folk in Guangdong, Guizhou, Gansu, Hubei, Zhejiang and other places in China. In Guangzhou, the folk generally offer to worship the Golden Flower Lady, many places have the "Golden Flower Temple", dedicated to the Golden Flower Lady, the incense is very rich, and there is still a "Golden Flower Street" named after the temple in Guangzhou, which shows its influence. Legend has it that the 17th day of the 4th month of the lunar calendar is the birthday of Madame Golden Flower, and it is the day when pilgrims flock to the shrine in droves. What is the origin of this Lady of the Golden Flower?
According to the "Chronicle of Panyu County", Lady Jinhua is the daughter of a local Jin clan, surnamed Jinhua, called Jinhua Girl, who became a witch when she was more than ten years old, and is a "little fairy girl" engaged in superstitious professions. Her Immortal Passage was also very peculiar. The "Cantonese Xiaoji" said: "(Jinhua) This witch, May Guan Jingdu, drowned in the lake, there are incense puppets next to the corpse, Wanxiao deity, because of the side of the moon spring, the name of the place is Huifuxing, the cloud of the immortal lake." ”
Volume 53 of the "Chronicle of Panyu County" says more specifically: "When (The Golden Flower) was less a witch, she was called the Little Lady of the Golden Flower, and after it was not in the water of the Immortal Lake, it was not bad for a few days, and there was a different fragrance, and the people in it saw differently, and the people in it were different, and they were buried with the crowd, and the incense wood was like a human form, because the carved statue was like a shrine." Prayers are often tested. In the fifth year of Chenghua (1469), Inspector Chen Lian rebuilt it and called Lady Jinhua Puhuifu. Zhang Xueshi: "Wang Yan saw the golden flowers that day and transformed into the water surface of the Immortal Lake." Kasumimoto had no intention of returning the film, and the evening wind blew down the homes of thousands of people. "At the beginning of Jiajing, Tixue Wei destroyed his ancestral hall and burned his statue, and the vast number of believers established the Golden Flower Society and moved the shrine to the south of the river."
In addition, Qu Dajun of the Qing Dynasty also said in the "Guangdong New Language" that the Golden Flower Lady drowned when watching the dragon boat race during the Dragon Boat Festival, the body was not corrupted for several days, and there was a strange fragrance, and then as said above, a wooden statue appeared in the lake, like a golden flower. As a result, the statue was worshipped by the locals, and the golden flower was regarded as a god by the world, and finally upgraded to a child-giver, and it is said that people ask for a son to be more intelligent than her.
The birthplace of Lady Jinhua is said to have been born in Lanzhou in the northwest, and the Chronicle of Reconstructing Gaolan County says: "The Golden Flower Fairy Was Born in Jing'er Street, Lanzhou. His father, Jin Yinglong, was born in Jinjiaya Village, Yuzhong County, on the banks of the Yuanchuan River, and later rented land to cultivate the land in the Jing'er Street Teaching Farm, so he moved. "One said to have been born on Jinhua Straight Street on Xihua Road in Guangzhou. At present, there are still remnants of the Jinhua Ancient Temple on Huangpu Cheung Chau Island. Lanzhou and Guangzhou, the difference is 108,000 miles, and the golden flowers are blessed. In May 2018, the legend of the Golden Flower Lady declared by Huangpu District of Guangzhou Was included in the seventh batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage representative projects in Guangdong Province. At this point, I am afraid that it is one step faster than Gansu Province! Gossip less, stop.
The process of how Madame Jinhua became an immortal is generally more common and unremarkable, nothing more than a little witch drowning and dying to become a "fairy", "immortal trace" is in "there are incense puppets next to the corpse, like a statue of a god", the biggest highlight should be a pure corpse, long and not decayed, the essence of the "immortal". Or hide in the mountains and become immortals. According to the inscription of the Golden Flower Temple, the golden peanut died at the age of 15 at noon on the seventh day of march in the twenty-second year of Hongwu (139) in the seventh year of Hongwu (139). How could such a little girl manage the fertility of women? How did she become a "lady"? These are all problems!
According to the "Cantonese Xiaoji", "Or: The god (Lady Jinhua) is a virgin, and there is a lady fangjiao, who does not go down for a few days, and dies a few days; the dream god tells the day: 'Please the golden flower girl, then give birth!'" 'Secret visits are obtained.' In the heat of the summer, the lady gives birth to a child. Therefore, there is no one who dares to marry God. God was ashamed, so he threw himself into the lake and died. Cantonese portraits are named after the gods, surnamed Jin, and given the name Of flowers, which were called 'Golden Flower Maidens' at that time. Because of its order to give birth to a child, it is not suitable for being a virgin, so it is called Lady Yun. "This is the Cantonese version. In the Lanzhou version of the "Chronicle of Gaolan County", Jin Hua was a fugitive marriage, and after escaping marriage, he got the Tao in the mountains and said bluntly to his brother: "The younger sister is a fractal of Cihang, the light divides the South China Sea, and shoulders the heavy responsibility of pudu sentient beings to get rid of the sea of suffering." Now that the results have been fulfilled and the results have been achieved, this trip is different, and we cannot take half a step back. "Instead of drowning by God, he was taken away by God.
All claims are just sayings, and it is difficult to justify themselves. Fortunately and unfortunately, the golden flower has thus become a "fairy girl", continuing the incense that has flourished for hundreds of years! In Guangzhou, the Golden Flower Temple is the largest of all the Golden Flower Temples, the scale is magnificent, in the past there were more than eighty gods and twenty milk maidens, these milk ladies also have some names, such as the White Flower Lady (White Flower refers to the boy, the girl is the Red Flower) Cao Family, the Nurturing Lady Deng Family, the Red Flower Lady Ye Family, the Bao fetal Lady Chen Family, the Waist Hugging Lady Wan Family, the Flower Lady Jiang Family, etc., these twenty milk ladies, each performing their duties, plus the main god Jinhua Lady, are all related to women's fertility.
When a woman enters the temple to pray, she will insert an incense in front of each of the twenty milkmaid gods, and repeat the cycle until she has finished inserting a bouquet of incense in her hand to see which milkmaid is inserted in front of the last pillar. This last pillar is very important, if the nurse is a, she will have a sign of a son, and she will tie the boy in the nurse's arms with a red rope, and while snorting her head, she will pray: Pray for the son Jinhua, and get more white flowers; two flowers in three years, away from the fruit. "I think I can be born as my own son." If the grandmother in front of you is empty-handed, hurry home and try your luck next time. Those who only ask for children are not bored, and one day they will bump into "good luck". These game-like practices can only be a comfort or hint in the heart. If you have everything in your heart, your feet will naturally go in that direction. I wish you all the best, all the best and all the best! (Text/Cai Si reading history Picture/From the Internet)