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The kitchen deity – also known as the Stove God, [1] named Zao Jun, Zao Shen, Zao kimjah, Cokimjah or Zhang Lang – is the most important of a plethora of Chinese domestic gods that protect the hearth and family.
The tradition of people offering sacrifice to kitchen god can date back to the Han dynasty. Houhan Shu （后汉书，The History of the Later Han) [3] recorded a man offered an antelope as a sacrifice to the Kitchen God and got the bless from the Kitchen God, thus his family gained and retained fortune and fame for three generations.
The title is a reference to the forgotten wife of Zao Jun, or the Kitchen God, a figure whose story is similar to that of the novel's co-protagonist, Winnie. [5] Zao Jun was once a hardworking farmer who married a virtuous and kind woman, Guo, but later squandered all their money. When his wife left him, Zao turned to begging.
Ông Táo, kitchen god in Vietnamese folk religion; Ông Địa, is the god of the earth and patron of the land on which the houses are built in Vietnamese folk religion; Sanamahi, the most predominant god in Meitei mythology and Sanamahism of Manipur; Tu Di Gong (earth deity), in Chinese folk religion
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One in the kitchen, dedicated to Zao Jun, the kitchen god, which reads 定福灶君. One which is dedicated to the Landlord god , Dizhu Shen (similar to Tudigong but not the same). This tablet comes in several forms: the simple form which reads 地主神位 , or a longer, more complex form which comprises two couplets commonly reading ...
Of these household deities the most important was the kitchen god Zao Jun. The Kitchen God was viewed as a sort of intermediary between the household and the supreme god, who would judge, then reward or punish a household based on the Kitchen God's report. [38] Zao Jun was propitiated at appropriate times by offerings of food and incense, and ...
Image credits: anon #2. We have the world's stupidest dachshund. One time he sneezed next to a kitchen cabinet and hit his head on the door. He barked at the cabinet for hitting him.