The legend of the God of Fortune

Belief in god worship is a beauty in traditional culture of Vietnamese people. Right from the beginning of the early state formation, people knew how to worship natural and supernatural gods, such as: God of earth, god of May, god of Rain, Than Co, Than Su .

This worship of gods originates from the psychological fear of natural phenomena that they have not been able to explain at that time.

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And it is also the psychology that expresses gratitude to things, the surrounding natural phenomenon has created them a living environment, and made their lives rich, prosperous and peaceful.

Shen Tai according to folk beliefs is a god who brings wealth, wealth, and prosperity to his family, every time he does anything, he often sees his master praying to God. Most commonly in business shops, the altar of divine fortune is often turned around. So where does the origin of the God of worship come from, and how far has there been no exact answer. On the occasion of the God of Fortune, we introduce you to the stories that collect and collect in the folk to contribute to explaining the above reasons according to the concept of folklore.

"The accumulation of Au Minh - Nhu Nguyen"

There was a merchant named Au Minh when he went to Thanh Thao Lake, Thuy Than gave a servant named Nhu Ngoi . Au Minh brought Nhu Nguyen to the family to do business and became more and more prosperous. Then, on a New Year day, for some reason, Au Minh beat Nhu Nguyen. Nhu Nguyen was too scared to crawl into the pile and disappear. Since then, Au Minh has always been at a loss, falling, soon becoming bankrupt, poor and poor. It turns out Nhu Nguyen is the reincarnation of the God of Fortune. From there people rewarded the altar to worship this god in the corner of the house, looking out.

That is why in the 3 days of the Lunar New Year we must not sweep garbage out. Because according to the area of ​​Âu Minh - As Pray as above, people are afraid of scavenging that they will take out the God of Fortune in that pile of rubbish, the business will not go smoothly. The worship of Shen Tai in the corner of the place also originated from here.

"The tenth month of the lunar calendar"

The story tells that Shen Tai is only in heaven, there is no earth, Shen Tai is the God who manages money and fortune .

In one go to drink and drink, due to being too drunk, the God of Fortune fell to the world, unfortunately hit the rock, so tired of knowing nothing, in the morning everyone saw a person dressed like a reformed drama. I was surprised and thought he was crazy.

Everyone saw that, then stripped off all of Shen Tai's hat clothes and sold them, Shen Yun woke up without clothes on him and due to being hit on the rock, he did not remember who he was.

Due to living on the heavenly family is familiar, so Shen Tai does not know how to work under the earth so often wanders to eat everywhere. Shen Tai went begging to meet a businessman who traded chickens, ducks, and pigs, and drowned, seeing that the God of Fortune came and begged to be invited by the landlord.

Shen Tai was fed by the owner, so he tried to eat a lot, especially he liked roasted duck meat, the strange thing is that when he went to this restaurant, he did not know where to go from the owner to the owner. The shop found it strange that every day, I invited the God of Fortune to eat.

Customers in the restaurant opposite before are very crowded, suddenly, from the day God Tai came to eat at this restaurant, the guests on that side moved all over this restaurant.

After a period of time, the shopkeeper has a lot of customers and feels that Shen Tai does nothing but can eat delicious food all day, eat all the hands and eat, people smell, and like to wander without washing and washing.

Thinking Shen Tai will make guests afraid of not coming to eat anymore and seeing the loss of food for a beggar is not worth so the owner immediately chased him away.

The restaurant opposite the old days was very crowded, it was absent, seeing Shen Tai being chased by the owner on the other side, he immediately invited the God of Fortune to eat, just like before, everyone came to this restaurant very crowded.

Everyone saw that so everyone tried to compete for the talent to get to his restaurant to eat to be able to pull visitors to eat winter, so the sentence " God of Fortune type a".

People in that area saw Shen Tai without clothes, so he took him to buy clothes, led by people to the store where his clothes were sold, after putting on the hat clothes, the God of Fortune remembered everything before and fly back to heaven.

People consider Shen Tai as a treasure and they set up an altar, worshiping him since then, the reincarnation of Shen Tai is a wanderer who begs ragged clothes.

The day of Shen Yun flying to heaven is also the 10th day of the first lunar month . So every year, every month, everyone's house is taken on the 10th day of the God of Fortune .