The Kitchen God is recognized in Chinese folk religion, Chinese mythology, and Taoism.
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10 Facts About Kitchen God
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Kitchen God eventually became married to a virtuous woman, but ended up falling in love with a younger woman.
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Kitchen God left his wife to be with this younger woman and, as punishment for this adulterous act, the heavens afflicted him with ill-fortune.
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Kitchen God became blind, and his young lover abandoned him, leaving him to resort to begging to support himself.
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Kitchen God cooked him a fabulous meal and tended to him lovingly; he then related his story to her.
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The Kitchen God was originally believed to have resided in the stove and only later took on human form.
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Many customs are associated with the Kitchen God, especially defining the date of the "Kitchen God festival", known as "Little New Year".
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The Character of the relationship is essentially bureaucratic; the family is the smallest corporate unit in society, and the Stove Kitchen God is the lowest ranking member of a supernatural bureaucracy.
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Kitchen God uses the symbolism of the Kitchen God's story and uses it as a parallel towards modern day life.
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