What is the origin of Xiaonian? Introduction to the origin and legend of Xiaonian
4hw.com.cn: 2019 Xiaonian is coming soon. Xiaonian also means the beginning of the Spring Festival. Every family will clean up and prepare the ingredients for the new year. Do you know the origin of Xiaonian? Let's look at the origin and legend of Xiaonian.
The origin of Xiaonian
It is said that in ancient times, there was a family surnamed Zhang. The brothers were a Mason and a painter. My brother's specialty is pan and pot. He was invited by the East Street and Xifang. They all praised him for his high cooking skill. He became famous for a long time, and he was respected as' King Zhang Zao 'for thousands of miles.
Zhang Zaowang is also strange. No matter who goes to build a stove, he likes to meddle in other people's disputes. When he meets a noisy daughter-in-law, he wants to persuade, and when he meets a fierce mother-in-law, he also wants to say, as if he were an old man. In the future, his neighbors will come to him when they have something to do, and everyone respects him very much. Zhang Zaowang lived for 70 years. When he died, it was late at night on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. As soon as king Zhang Zao died, Zhang was in a mess. It turned out that King Zhang Zao was the head of the family, and everything at home was at his command. Now the eldest brother has left the world, and his younger brother can only write poetry and painting. Although he has spent his armor, he has never been in charge of housework. The daughter-in-law in several rooms were all clamoring for separation. The painter was helpless and worried all day. One day, he finally came up with a better idea.
On the memorial day of the first anniversary of the death of King Zhang Zao on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, late at night, the painter suddenly shouted to wake up the whole family, saying that the eldest brother had appeared. He led his son and daughter-in-law's family to the kitchen. On the dark stove wall, the flickering candlelight loomed, showing the appearance of Zhang Zaowang and his late wife. The family were stunned. The painter said, 'when I slept, I dreamed that my eldest brother and sister-in-law had become immortals, and the jade emperor named him & lsquo; Jiutian East kitchen commander, king of the kitchen & rsquo;. You are always lazy, your sister-in-law is discordant, disrespectful and unfilial, which makes your family uneasy. The eldest brother is very angry to know that you are breaking up. He is going to tell the jade emperor that the lower boundary will punish you on the evening of new year's Eve. " After hearing these words, the children's nephews and daughters-in-law were terrified. They immediately knelt down and kowtowed repeatedly. They hurriedly brought Zhang Zaowang's favorite sweets to the stove and begged him for forgiveness.
From then on, the often noisy uncles, brothers and daughters-in-law no longer dared to act rashly. The whole family lived in peace and peace, old and young. After the matter was known to the neighbors, they came to Zhangjia to inquire about the truth. In fact, the kitchen king on the kitchen wall on the night of December 23 was drawn in advance by the painter. He came to frighten his children and nephew and daughter-in-law under the pretext of his eldest brother's manifestation. Unexpectedly, this method was really effective. Therefore, when the villagers came to the painter to inquire about the situation, he had to pretend to be true and distribute the painted kitchen king to his neighbors. Such as these, spread along the countryside, every family's kitchen has been pasted with the statue of the kitchen king. The passage of time has formed the custom of offering a confession to the kitchen Lord on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month and praying for the peace of the whole family. After the custom of offering sacrifices to stoves spread, the Imperial Palace also included it in the sacrifice ceremony since the Zhou Dynasty, and set the rules of offering sacrifices to stoves throughout the country, which has become a fixed ceremony.
The origin of Xiaonian II
The Jade Emperor was so angry that he immediately summoned the three corpse God and ordered him to write their crimes on the wall of the people who spoke ill of the Jade Emperor, and then let the spider knot open a big web and hang it under the eaves. The jade emperor also ordered the king Lingguan to lower the boundary on New Year's Eve. Anyone who saw the house marked by the three corpse God would be beheaded. Seeing that the plot was about to succeed and that he could monopolize the beautiful world, the three corpses quickly came down to earth and marked the walls of each family.
Zaojun found the plot of the three corpse gods and hurried to find the kitchen Lord of each family to discuss the Countermeasures: from the date of delivering the kitchen, every family should be cleaned up before New Year's Eve. When Wang Lingguan was ordered to visit the lower boundary on the eve of the lunar new year, he found that every household was very clean without any marks, and the people kept themselves in line and worked hard. The Jade Emperor learned from Lingguan Wang and Zaojun that the three corpse gods had wronged good people. He was furious and put the three corpse gods in prison forever.
Since then, the kind-hearted kitchen king has been supported by everyone. He will sacrifice the kitchen on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month every year, and sweeping the dust on the 24th has become a folk custom.