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The spirit of home Tszao-Shen

Spirit home Tszao-Shen was coupled with ancestors mainly defender and protector of home, family, all family. Options it was quite similar to Cheng and the Juan de sheney: as a sort of divine-official intermediary between the family and the supreme deity Yuyhuanom shandi he was called upon to care for the welfare of the family, to protect its peace, intercede for them in the event of disasters and misfortunes . However Tszao-Shen, and every officer was carrying a lot of responsibilities and a different order. He watched everything that happens in the house, and at the end of the year – the 23rd and 24 th of the 12 th month of the lunar calendar went to heaven to Yu Di, who reported on all the news that occurred in his home. Wires and met him at the time of the New Year has always been the central events of the festival. Before the administration of the spirit of the home with the report on the sky near his image, be sure to visevshego in every home in the kitchen over the fireplace, put the gifts: the spirit offers various sweets (so he talked about the good cases), and his horse on which he was to go , brought bundles of hay and clean water, sometimes even a handful of barley. In addition, the very image Tszao-Chen usually mazali lip spirit of sweet sticky honey or molasses, so that his mouth was not easy to open and, again, not a desire to say the unpleasant things. Then, after the departure of Tszao-she-class, the old paper image solemnly burned. During the absence of the spirit of the family home is usually a thorough cleaning of the house, store food in preparation for New Year and to meet its divine representative. It was believed that Tszao-Shen returned to the 1 st of the new year. His solemn hlopushek greeted by thunder and flashes of fireworks. During this festive time of the fireplace hung a new, bought in advance the image of spirit. The popularity of the household deities competed with the popularity of the most influential persons of Chinese pantheon.
People bytovali various legends explaining the origin of Tszao-Chen. For example, talked about the poor slugabed named Zhang, fed by his wife. A New Year’s wife sent him to his parents for rice, while those to spare poor daughter had to bag the silver.
Faineant tired to drag heavy burden, and he gave the bag counter beggar. Furious wife scored his death, but because the case was in the New Year’s Eve, is a hotbed of zakopala corpse. Admitted to regret it later put on a hotbed of memorial plaque with the name of her husband and began to pray in front of her. Since then, custom honor Chzha-on as Tszao-Chen has spread, according to the whole China.
Non-Tszao Chen was extremely popular in folk art, paper paintings depicting Tszao-Chen, his wife and aides were printed with the boards in a big number. There were also pictures with a portrait of one Tszao-Chen, for some of the Chinese believed that if you hang a picture Tszao-Chen with his wife, the house would not consent.
In a number of regional and domestic gods and spirits are the most humble spirit – protector of individual destiny. His cult is usually linked with the cult of the star, under which a person was born. This star was taken to perform the worship of an individual’s birthday and New Year’s Eve. Accordingly, the spirit-patron of the stars has always supported his godson, had to take care of it.

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Сентябрь 2010
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