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When little new year rolls around the Jade Emperor decides accordingly to the family’s yearly behavior to decide if he will reward or punish them. The Kitchen God serves as the messenger to report back to the Jade Emperor. #atigerstale #littlenewyear #wuxia #kitchengod #kungfu #comic #countdown #kickstarter #12323 https://www.instagram.com/p/CncTWGKJpa-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
This little village is named after a well, 龍水 or Dragon Water, that the entire village relies on for the rice paddies and supposedly has healing properties. This temple, built in 3 years with villagers’ donation, costs over 1 billion TWD or ~$333USD. This temple worships the Kitchen God and it’s said that there are more famous chefs from here than anywhere else in Taiwan. 🧡🧡🧡🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼 #taiwan #taiwanese #temple #kitchengod #恆春鎮龍水里 (at 恆春鎮)
my parents just taught me about the kitchen god and how we bid him farewell on the 23rd of the lunar calendar.
so there’s a god that stays in your kitchen, named Ong Tao, he watches your kitchen fire and the affairs of your household all year long til this day. today he ascends to the heavens on the back of a fish and reports to the jade emperor.
Long, long ago, when Earth and Sky met in the Valley of Whispers, in the dense, green forest there lived a woodcutter and his wife. They were very poor and oftentimes the man was unable to earn enough to buy their food. Frustration and worry drove him to drink, and took the beating on his wife. She couldn’t endure it any longer. One night, she fled the cottage and was never seen there again.
For days and weeks, the woman wandered in the forest. She was hungry and her feet were torn and bleeding. Finally, she came to a hunter’s cabin. The owner was an honest man, who gave her food and permitted her to rest in his home. She kept house for him then, and after some time they were married. They lived together in great happiness, and it seemed that the woman had forgotten the terrors of her previous marriage.
One day while they were burning paper money and clothes to their ancestors in the yard, a beggar came in. The woman realized that the beggar was her former husband. Felt sorry for his fate, she gave him money and rice, not wanting her new husband to know. Later, the new husband was told about this and he suspected the woman’s virtue. The woman, to prove her righteousness, committed suicide by jumping in to the fire. Seeing this heart-rending sight, the former husband also jumped into the fire. The new husband, regretting for what he has thought of his wife, did the same as the other two did. The Jade Emperor was so moved by their faithfulness, offered them the title of the Gods of the Kitchen.
the story is suppose to explain why the clay stoves have 3 pegs (in comparison to the 4 we use in the US) 3 pegs for the 3 people that died in the story.
i asked my parents why out of all the stories they tell me, everyone always ends dying a horrible death. my dad’s reply: because people remember death…
